Susie M Ames Editor (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. This County Court Records of Accomack-Northampton, Virginia, 1640?1645, is volume 10 in the Virginia Historical Society?s Documents series. This book is a full transcription, not a narrative history and not a brief abstract. It includes everyday colonial Eastern Shore life in the early 1640s: planters and servants, women as litigants and widows, Native contacts, tobacco and livestock, ships and merchants, church and vestry overlap with the court, and the machinery of English county justice transplanted to a thin frontier. Genealogists use it for names, relationships, and estates; legal and social historians use it for ?law in action,? Ames?s own emphasis, rather than statute books.ABOUT THIS COPY: This hardcover is bound in two-toned brown and gray cloth. Covers are plain with gilt lettering on the spine. Indexed. xviii, 494 pp. This copy is in very nice, fine condition. Full refund if not satisfied.…