Yesterday was not such a good day. I became sick and as soon as I came home from
work, I went to bed and a fever took over.
Chills are not fun.
At work I was able to show many people my quilt in the
paper. I am still sad that the Gees Bend
type quilt was in the same picture as the lovely art quilts that the ladies had
submitted. I guess I will never know what passes through
the mind of a person who decided what will be in the installation and what will
not.
We continue to work on the Washington County and York County
records simultaneously. It is hard work
and difficult to accomplish. Many of the
records are held together with sealing wax – this is because they did not have
staplers or paper clips in the 1700’s.
I was working on the York county records when I came across
a tractor feed paper (years ago the printers that were used to print off
computer information used tractor feed paper – now we have laser printers –
things are changing constantly.) this
particular piece of paper had on it a printout of court cases form long ago and
I was amazed at how many things landed people in court – a parade of the ills
of society so to speak. They included
but were not limited to the following:
Trespass, bastardy, adultery, fornication, non attendance at church,
scolding, fighting, cursing, ejectment, debt, recognizance, breach of holiday,
drunkenness, illegal sale of drink, swearing, petition for support, support order,
assault, conversion, counterfeiting, neglect of duty, breach of the Sabbath,
profanity, threatening, Scire Facias (don’t know that that is) forfeiture of
bond, peddling, theft, resisting arrest, abusive behavior and contempt. I stopped reading at this point. This record was from 1695 to 1730 in York county.
Nevertheless, it is interesting work that we have been given
to do.
Sad to say that those things exist today, and even sadder is that most of them are acceptable behavior.
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