17th Century
ANNE ORTHWOOD
Despite the hardship that Anne went through, she will be remembered for the attitudes of councils. Which laws the court would choose, rule by, or ignore was based on how the people in the community felt about the case being prosecuted. With criminal conduct cases, the court acted upon moral justification rather than law. In paternity cases, they acted upon the community’s best financial interests, finding a responsible party to take the burden off themselves.
ANNE JACKSON, SURVIVOR
Starting in 1619, the company advertised for sensible, honest young ladies to join the men in Virginia and marry if they found someone who could attract them.
ANNE BURRAS LAYTON
They had the first child to survive in the New World in December 1609. And they named her Virginia.
GRACE NEALE WATERS ROBBINS
In another of a continuing series of sagas of our foremothers, today we discuss Grace Robbins.
CECILY RANDOLPH JORDAN FARRAR
CECILY REYNOLDS JORDAN FARRAR Cecily Farrar is considered the first Southern belle, the first to master flirting in Virginia. Needless to say, she was beautiful. She was also quite a good business manager. Cecily was the daughter of Joan Phippen and Thomas(?)...
MARY DOUGHTY VON DER DONCK O’NEALE
Mary was one of eight children of Reverend Francis and Bridget Doughty. The reverend was ostensibly an Anglican minister who seemed to always have his own opinion on how things really were and how he should preach the word of the Gospel. Many credit him with being the...
Work, Work, Work
Work, work, and more work. That pretty much describes the lives of the colonials, whether it was New England or Virginia. Whether you were male or female, young or old, literate or illiterate, you worked.What you worked at depended on whether you lived on a farm or in...
Mary Littleton Scarborough
Mary Scarbugh, born to wealth and prestige, was to be one of the primary characters in a life-long battle that makes today’s soap operas look tame. At this time, we do not know her maiden name or anything about her childhood. We meet her when she became engaged,...
Temperance Flowerdew, Founding Mother
Temperance Flowerdew was one of the earliest women to arrive in Jamestown. The settlement was established in April 1607. She arrived in the summer of 1609. This week’s founding mother was born around 1590 in Norfolk County, England. Her parents were Anthony...
Joan Phippen Pierce
It is not only men who were heros in the early days of the Jamestown settlement. Even if we define heros as those who save others. One of the saviors of the early colony was a young woman named Joan Pierce. Joan was born in England around 1575. She married a man...