Capt. Sterling

Mr. Tarr, will be pming you regardin something my crewe wishes to do...

Have to agree with Blackjohn here... the private party at the Governor's Palace was truly amazing and has this other one beat. Williamsburg truly knows how to throw one hell of a bash, from slack rope walkers, to slaves, to the beggars out in the street as the carriages arrive.... and during the day, their horse races were pretty impressive as well. Still lovely pictures, thanks for sharing...

Sorry, looks ungainly to me... a nice fusil de chase is my next acquisition.

Gaining the shore had been no ordinary feat. Still, they could not rest until they found a place to hide. He glanced at his companion, his own chest rising and falling as he tried to catch his breath. The swim had been a major battle. He had been chosen for being one of the better ones in the water but the current had been against them, the temperature far colder then they had hoped for this time of year. He coughed, then sucked in a lung full of air. "Come along then," he whispered, one hand coming to rest upon the other man's shoulder in order to give a gentle shove in the desired direction. "T'will be a miracle that no one seen us heading in. There be no point in giving ourselves away by standing around in the open now."

Hmm you have one of my favorite waistcoats on the new page, love the fact that the tailor wasn't worried about running the print in the same direction like we do now adays ... where did you find a picture of it with the black background?

Oh got my attention with that new opening page... very professional looking... will be back later after teaching to check out the rest... so far ...sharp!

You know you think too much about pirates, when... driving to work you notice a warning sign on the side of the road which you read once, then read aloud in astonishment... "Warning scurvy crew ahead'..what the hell?" and your daughter corrects you and says... "No it says 'Warning Survey crew ahead'...It's TOO early in the morning for you, isn't it?" :angry: :angry: :angry:

For the ladies: Virginia was one of the first states to acknowledge slavery in its laws, initially enacting such a law in 1661. The following year, Virginia passed two laws that pertained solely to women who were slaves or indentured servants and to their illegitimate children. Women servants who produced children by their masters could be punished by having to do two years of servitude with the churchwardens after the expiration of the term with their masters. The law reads, “that each woman servant gott with child by her master shall after her time by indenture or custome is expired be by the churchwardens of the parish where she lived when she was brought to bed of such bastard, sold for two years. . . .”

Thar be nothing better than reenactments/Living History to help bring up a child says I! Not only does it help them to become more outgoing... (mine were ridiculously shy with everyone), but it is incredible how positively it affects their learning and thus their time in school!!

Ack!! Patrick I was saving that for another thread!!!

As to George Alsop: "In these descriptions of servants' working conditions generally, Alsop, if not intentionally dissimulating, has at least based conclusions too exclusively on his own treatment by the considerate Captain Stockett. (who seems to be the exception regarding masters in Maryland at the time, not the rule) The fact is that Alsop, a servant for all but a few months of his time in Maryland, saw little of the province outside his immediate circumstances. Two men who did, who traveled the same territory extensively a few years later, viewed life and servitude in Maryland less benignly. Jaspar Dankers, or Dnackaerts, and Peter Sluyter were Dutch Labadists, members of a quietist sect dedicated to simple living and holding goods and children in common. Some 13 years after Alsop's book was published, Dankers and Sluyter visited the plantation lands as part of a settlement-scouting expedition that included visits to New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. They found Alsop's Maryland a place of privation, hard work, and hunger." Alsop himself wrote a book, with possible help from them that were promoting the settlement of Maryland, called A Character of the Province of Maryland. Which is "such a strange, almost self-cancelling mixture of faithful observation and shameless promotion, conviction and posturing, bawdiness and piety, pastoral rhapsodizing and choleric anger, that one suspects Alsop himself could no longer distinguish what is imagined from what is fact. In his own preface he writes "If I have wrote or composed any thing that's wilde and confused, it is because I am so my self, and the world, as far as I can perceive, is not much out of the same trim; therefore I resolve, if I am brought to the Bar of Common Law for anything I have done heare, to plead Non Compos Mentis." He also wrote about his own freedom "While I was linckt with the Chain of a restraining Servitude, I had all things cared for, and now I have all things to care for myself." So one can only wonder how reliable his claims regarding yer auctions are... Alsop, George. A Character fo the Province of Maryland. Dankers (Danckaerts), Jaspar, and Peter Sluyter. Journal of a Voyage to New York and a Tour of Several of the American Colonies, 1679-80. Bolton, Charles Knowles. Portraits of the Founders: Portraits of Persons Born Abroad Who Came to the Colonies in North America Before the Year 1701. Van der Zee, John. Bound Over: Indentured Servitude & American Conscience

Bo, here's one for you.... See if you come across anything regarding ship captains known as "spirits" in the practice of Indentured Servitude.

Sounds more like a bunch of Grenadiers than pirates...

Wow! Can't remember the last time a saw fog in NY.

Sailor's jacket gets my vote... and then shoes... aye, methinks shoes before stockings.. You can wear shoes without the stockings, but you'd look bloody silly running around in stockings without yer shoes...

^ Talk to my very best friend, He is always ready to chat and more importantly listen < Sorry to hear you have the blues Silkie V passing along the question

Last but never least...

He closed his eyes, fighting to keep from being sick, but soft voices only echoed through out the cell and in his head far worse than any broadside he could remember. For a moment he tried to think of what he had done now to cause such displeasure to his master but the voices were wrong, the accents far too familiar… Eyes were forced opened and cell’s interior slowly inspected as far as prone placement would permit. But he could not remember where he was or how he had arrived in such a place. He would have wracked his brain to think of who it could be that he had now offended, but it was not within his power to concentrate. As others’ deafening murmurs continued to bandy about, it was all he could do to whisper… “For God’s sake, help me.”

Absolutely... and, before we even bother the others... perhaps a head count of anyone that may actually be interested in straw bedding... if no one is, then that solves looking for a way to transport the item in...

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Thank you William, now I don't have to go a hunting... *** If folks were to make the canvas sack, would it be possible for the Ft. to ship in some bales? Just curious... in which case we might need a head count on who would actually want some...

Air Mattresses? Coleman sleeping bags? Did you not read the sensitive ear thread? No one is going to sleep so why bring all that stuff??? Honestly, for the die hards, like the Archangel crew "just recently released from the pc extreme asylum" nuts... oops I mean folks... we sleep in our clothes (woolen coats and jackets will most likely be more than warm enough), on the ground or in hammocks (which, hopefully, the new ones will be finished by Pip) with a woolen blanket or two... Now I was just reading an account that some men had some sort of bedding that was theirs, which the writer was saying sounds to be more like some form of stuffed ticking mattress that could be put inside the hammock for additional comfort... now to remember where I read that so you all can have a reference... it was actually listed in some of the seamen's wills.... for washing... a pitcher and basin of water, a chunk of soap and your straight edge...but...** looking confused** do we really need to be clean?? oh by the way scrapping yer teeth would be pc... For the others, if you have the sleeping bags, (my snotties do because they always seem to be cold no matter who else is sweating to death and can't sleep due to the heat) just roll em up and stash them under a wool blanket during the day... no one will know the difference... as to getting about at night, if you have a proper lantern, just use that... if not a small flashlight, you can also tuck away during the day should be fine as well. And for kids, if you're bringing them, I recommend some sort of battery operated light for after hours, just for safety sake... depending on their ages, candles just don't cut it...

Um actually that came about later... GAoP... was a "pull the cart out and you strangle slowly to death" for about at least 15 mins or longer...if you were fortunate, loved ones came and pulled on yer legs to hurry up the process... but hats off to you and the wee ones...sounds as if you all handled the time brilliantly!!

... and now payper view has screwed up the bloody guide... no movie until tomorrow... and I have no patience...

So sorry to hear about your pet! as for how I feel otherwise...bored out of my mind.