Anne Burras
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In December 1608, Anne married carpenter John Laydon (or Layton, Leyden), aged 28 years (Template:Born in).[6][7] John Laydon had arrived with the original colonists to Virginia in 1607.
In 1610, Anne worked as a seamstress for the colony.[8] During the strict regime enacted by Dale's Code, she was whipped brutally for "sewing shirts too short", a punishment which caused a miscarriage.[9]
The Laydons had four daughters, Virginia, Alice, Katherine, and Margaret. All six members of the Laydon family were listed in the muster of February 1624/5. According to the muster, Anne was 30 years of age when the muster was taken. All four children are listed as born in Virginia; their ages are not given.[10]
John Laydon was shown as having 200 acres in Henrico in May, 1625.[1] However, the 1624/5 muster shows the family living in Elizabeth City. A patent to "John Leyden, Ancient Planter", dated December 2, 1628, refers to 100 acres on the east side of Blunt Point Creek, "land now in tenure of Anthony Burrowes and William Harris, and said land being in lieu of 100 acres in the Island of Henrico".[11]
No proof has been found of the marriage of any of the four daughters, though it has been suggested, on the basis of land records, that one daughter may have married John Hewitt or Howitt.[1]
References
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- ↑ Smith, John, The Generall Historie of Virginia, New England & The Summer Isles ..., cited Virginia, Alice, Katherine, and Margaret.
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- ↑ Bernhard, Virginia. “‘Men, Women and Children’ at Jamestown: Population and Gender in Early Virginia, 1607-1610.” The Journal of Southern History, vol. 58, no. 4, 1992, pp. 599–618. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/2210786. Accessed 2 Oct. 2024.
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- ↑ Virginia Land Patents Book 1, pp. 69-70.
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Further reading
- John Smith, The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles (Glasgow, Scotland: James MacLehose and Sons, 1907), Vol. 1: 203–05
- Kelso, William M. Jamestown, the Buried Truth Copyright 2006
- John Smith, A True Relation of Occurrences and Accidents in Virginia, 1608. Personal Narratives from the Virtual Jamestown Project, 1575-1705