17th Century

CECILY RANDOLPH JORDAN FARRAR

CECILY RANDOLPH JORDAN FARRAR

CECILY REYNOLDS JORDAN FARRAR Cecily Farrar is considered the first Southern belle, the first to master flirting in Virginia. Needless to say, she was beautiful. She was also quite a good business manager. Cecily was the daughter of Joan Phippen and Thomas(?)...

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MARY DOUGHTY VON DER DONCK O’NEALE

MARY DOUGHTY VON DER DONCK O’NEALE

Mary was one of eight children of Reverend Francis and Bridget Doughty. The reverend was ostensibly an Anglican minister who seemed to always have his own opinion on how things really were and how he should preach the word of the Gospel. Many credit him with being the...

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Work, Work, Work

Work, Work, Work

Work, work, and more work. That pretty much describes the lives of the colonials, whether it was New England or Virginia. Whether you were male or female, young or old, literate or illiterate, you worked.What you worked at depended on whether you lived on a farm or in...

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Mary Littleton Scarborough

Mary Littleton Scarborough

Mary Scarbugh, born to wealth and prestige, was to be one of the primary characters in a life-long battle that makes today’s soap operas look tame. At this time, we do not know her maiden name or anything about her childhood. We meet her when she became engaged,...

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Temperance Flowerdew, Founding Mother

Temperance Flowerdew, Founding Mother

  Temperance Flowerdew was one of the earliest women to arrive in Jamestown. The settlement was established in April 1607. She arrived in the summer of 1609. This week’s founding mother was born around 1590 in Norfolk County, England. Her parents were Anthony...

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Joan Phippen Pierce

Joan Phippen Pierce

​ It is not only men who were heros in the early days of the Jamestown settlement. Even if we define heros as those who save others. One of the saviors of the early colony was a young woman named Joan Pierce. Joan was born in England around 1575. She married a man...

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Ann Graves Cotton Eaton Doughty

Ann Graves Cotton Eaton Doughty

Ann Graves was the second of three daughters of Sir Thomas Graves, an ancient planter of Virginia colony. Her life story has been written by historians several times, but the American men and women know nothing of this long-suffering colonial. Ann married Reverend...

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