Delaware and the Eastern shore; some aspects of a peninsula pleasant and well beloved . for there was a con-siderable Huguenot element in adjoining coun-ties of Maryland. There was also an influentialPuritan element, if one may judge by theultramarine laws in early Accomack and North-ampton. The county records of Accomack, are theoldest of unbroken continuity in the UnitedStates, the oldest existing except those ofPlymouth, which by the way once bore the nameAccomack. They show that very early in theSeventeenth Century, profane swearing, mali-cious gossip, common scolding, card playingon Sunda
Delaware and the Eastern shore; some aspects of a peninsula pleasant and well beloved . for there was a con-siderable Huguenot element in adjoining coun-ties of Maryland. There was also an influentialPuritan element, if one may judge by theultramarine laws in early Accomack and North-ampton. The county records of Accomack, are theoldest of unbroken continuity in the UnitedStates, the oldest existing except those ofPlymouth, which by the way once bore the nameAccomack. They show that very early in theSeventeenth Century, profane swearing, mali-cious gossip, common scolding, card playingon Sunday, lying, and the like were punishedby fines, the stocks and imprisonment. In 1634,a man was condemned for slandering a clergy-man to make a pair of stocks, sit in them duringdivine service for three successive Sundays,and apologize to the parson. An accusation ofwitchcraft was tried in 1655. Cotton was thename of an early minister, and Colonel ObedienceRobins, though a royalist in politics, had aRound Head Christian name, and a Puritanseverity in his judgments as a magistrate. 30G. MAKEMIE MONUMENT, ACCOMACK COUNTY
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