10 Matching Questions: People and Places

Question 1

Massachusetts

Answer 1

Maine was once a part of Massachusetts. Check for boundary changes.

People live longer here than in Carolina

Records: town records vital records, tax records, land grants, town meetings, other meetings, county records: including probate records and court records

Question 2

Chesapeake

Answer 2

Don’t have nuclear family pattern

Settled the lower south (as well as the Barbados planters)

Find out where Chesapeake lived. Maryland and Virginia

Question 3

New England

Question 4

Virginia

Answer 4

Not about families like New England. Mostly male indentured servants

Servants were property being traded and sold

Question 5

West Indies

Answer 5

British settlements at one point. isles in the West Indies south, south east of Florida.

Question 6

Rhode Island

Answer 6

Where dissenters and nonconformist flocked including Quaker’s and baptist

18th century: Jewish community. Built a synagogue that’s still standing

Baptist rejected much of Calvinist idealogy

Baptist records can substitute birth records only mentions their entrance into the church

Question 7

Connecticut

Question 8

Pennsylvania facts:

Answer 8

Most things happen at a county level: provincial courts county courts and orphan courts

1682-1776
Founded by quakers
No established church

Court or state structure:
King and parliament are at the top
Next governor and council
Next counties
Next towns
——-
Provincial court
Est 1682
Appeals court

Supreme Court:
Est 1722
Appeals court
Court of equity

County courts:
Est 1682
Civil criminal and probate cases (the latter in orphans courts)

In 1722 divided into 3 jurisdictions:
Court of common pleas
Court of quarter sessions
Orphan’s court

Question 9

Florida

Question 10

Texas

Question 11

New Brunswick

Answer 11

1755, British bien expulsion of Acadians
1763 Frances Cedes Canada and Acadia to British.
1784 New Brunswick separated from Nova Scotia.

Question 12

Mid Atlantic Colonies

Answer 12

No state Religion.

New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania

Question 13

Nova Scotia

Question 14

Louisiana

Question 15

New York

Answer 15

New Netherlands becomes New York after taken over by new English. There’s a king of the English

Then english take over New York in 1660s

New York is very complete in 18th century. Is messy to dig through records but most have survived

Question 16

North Carolina

Question 17

South Carolina

Question 18

Georgia

Answer 18

1732-1752

Records are sparse partly because of war: 7years war, st Anna war and more.

Two periods: trusteee period where there’s no counties, there’s individual towns.
And
Royal colony period: 1753-1777 American Revolutionary War- divided into 12 parishes. Hardly keep any records look at church records.

All civil records handled at the colony level.

NClandgants.com

Question 19

The Lower South

Answer 19

North Carolina South Carolina and Georgia

Question 20

Barbados

Answer 20

Barbados : chief source of enslaved labor for the Carolina’s 1/3-1/2 of slaves. Didn’t just come from Africa

Question 21

New Jersey timeline and churches:

Answer 21

1664-1702 no established church

1702-1776 Church of England, religious toleration

Question 22

New Jersey state structure:

Answer 22

Structure:
From king and parliament
Down to governor and council
Down to counties
Down to town

Question 23

New Jersey records timeline:

Answer 23

Delaware is similar to Pennsylvanian is doesn’t become a colony until later. Early Delaware records can be found in New York and Pennsylvania

Pre 1738:
Maintained courts and colony wide counts of chancery and judicatura, but shared prerogative court with NY.

1738-1776
Probate matters transferred to Court

Question 24

Delaware

Answer 24

1704-1776
No established church

Court breakdown:
King and parliament
Governor and council
Counties
Towns

Levy court:
County level
Tax records
Some probate records

Court of common pleas
County level
Minor civil suits, minor criminal cases

Court of quarter sessions:
County level
Criminal cases

Orphans court
County level
Property, guardianship, some
probate records

Supreme Court:
Colony-wide
Appeals court

Question 25

What do Carolina’s and West Indies share in common?

Answer 25

They share economic and political culture

18th century a majority were black and enslaved

By 1770 60-70 percent of total population is black South Carolinians
In some counties 90 percent were enslaved
More than any region in North America

West Indies was the only area that matched Carolinas racial demographic

Question 26

When did Carolina divide into two parts?

Answer 26

1712 north and South Carolina

Ogleforth opposed to slavery and alcohol

Question 27

What did lose South grow?

Answer 27

Crops for export and money