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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.18 (search)
sons it would be difficult to imagine. McCabe, page 9.The indulgences of the Virginian of the eighteenth century were not peculiar to him alone. They largely prevailed in New England. They were the natural reflex of the laxity of English morals under the Georges. However liable the Virginian may have been to the charge of intolerance, superstition seems not to have benighted his nature. His courts record but one instance of an arraignment for witchcraft. Upon the complaint of one Luke Hill and wife in 1795 Grace Sherwood was tried by the County Court of Princess Anne on the suspicion of witchcraft. She was first searched by an able jury of ancient women and then subjected to the water test—being cast into the river and she swiming w'n therein and bound, contrary to custom, was again committed to ye common goal of ye county to be brought to a ffuture tryall there. Collections of the Virginia Historical and Philosophical Society, Volume I, 1833. pages 69-78. The court,