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The Edward Corder Senior Memorial Library
A collection of digitized documents relating
to Edward Corder Sr. and his descendants
Established January 2007, organized
and maintained by Laura Henderson
This collection is intended for educational
use by genealogical researchers of the Corder family and allied
lines. Please do not copy or distribute these resources, or use
them for commercial purposes or in publications of any kind without
permission from the original sources or copyright holders.
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Articles
A
collection of digitized articles on topics relevant primarily to
the Corder family and secondarily to selected allied lines. .
1727-
1799 Selected Clippings from The Maryland
Gazette
The Maryland Gazette, William
Parks, Editor
The Maryland Gazette,
founded and edited by Englishman William Parks in 1727, was the
first newspaper published in Maryland. The state of Maryland maintains
a partial online
archive of the Gazette, from which I have excerpted some of
my personal favorite "clippings" -- various remarkable
or humorous blurbs of...er...news. Newsworthy or no, the Gazette
provides a delightful insight into everyday life in Edward Corder's
colonial America.
Relevant to: Edward Corder I and children
1750
"White Servitude"
Excerpted from America
at 1750: A Social Portrait, Richard Hofstadter,1971
Read
Article [92K PDF]
Relevant
to: Edward
Corder I
1894
"Greenway Court"
Excerpted from Some Old
Historic Landmarks of Virginia and Maryland, W.H. Snowden,1894
Read
Article [688K PDF]
- recommend download to desktop instead of opening in browser.
A typically florid
Victorian description of the Virginia residence of Lord Fairfax,
and an embellished account of his London life and rumored jilting
as a youth. Reduces Fairfax's contributions to the (probably overstated)
influence he had on a youthful George Washington. Includes an
engraving of the residence (see Art and Illustrations in navigation above)
and mentions that the Court burned prior to 1894 (although another
source, Hezekiah Butterworth, states that the old manse was torn
down in the late 1800's due to disrepair).
Of interest:
Mentions that Fairfax did not live in the manse, but in a nearby
log cabin with his hunting dogs.
Relevant to: Edward
Corder I and children
Additional Resources and Articles
of Interest
Beattie, J. M., Policing
and Punishment in London, 1660-1750: Urban Crime and the Limits
of Terror (Oxford, 2001)
Coldham, P. W., The
Complete Book of Emigrants in Bondage, 1614-1775
(Baltimore, Maryland, 1988)
Ekirch, A.
Roger, Bound for America: A Profile of British Convicts
Transported to the Colonies, 1718-1775 The William
and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Ser., Vol. 42, No. 2 (Apr., 1985)
Ekirch, A. Roger, Bound
for America: The Transportation of British Convicts to the Colonies,
1718–1775 (Oxford: Clarendon Paperbacks, 1987)
Fischer, David Hackett and Kelly,
James C., Bound Away: Virginia and the Westward Movement
(University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville and London, 2000)
This
book can be read in its entirety online at books.google.com.
Kercher,
Bruce, Perish or Prosper: The Law and Convict Transportation
in the British Empire, 1700-1850. Law and History
Review 21.3 (2003): 154 pars. 27 Jan. 2007 This
article can be read in its entirety online at historycooperative.org
This collection is intended for educational
use by genealogical researchers of the Corder family and allied
lines. Please do not copy or distribute these resources, or use
them for commercial purposes or in publications of any kind without
permission from the original sources or copyright holders.
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