Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Abbreviations Preface

1. Picking Up the Thread 2. The Slender Thread Cast Off: Migration & Reception 3. Ciphering Ciphers: Tracing Irish Women 4. "A good, hard-working stump of a girl": Work and Identity 5. "She made the cannonballs, and he fired them": Informal Power 6. "Humbel" Petitioners and "Litigeous" Persons: Formal Justice 7. "Whilst Grass Grows or Water Run": Testation Practices 8. "To fix [their] character… in virtue and innocence": Women's Sexuality 9. The "Other" Woman on the Southern Shore 10. The Slender Thread Cast On

Map of Southern Avalon Bibliography Glossary Case File Archive Appendix A: Plebeian and Elite Communities Appendix B: Historiography, Sources, Study Area, and Naming Patterns Appendix C: Women's Presence in the Mercantile Accounts Appendix D: Marital and Other Family Arrangements in Ferryland District Appendix E: Partial Family Tree, Carter–Morry Families

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Case File No. 16

Frida Tobin v. Mary Bony
29 September 1818
Before John Gordon, Surrogate

Pltf complains of an assault and states that she was struck several times by the Deft her Mistress without any provocation, and that the Deft refuses to pay the wages due agreeably to the Shipping paper produced in Court by the Pltf being from 7^th. April to 31^st. Oct^r. 1818. The def^t appearing in Court admits that she did assault the Pltf but does not refuse to pay the Wages

Decreed that def^t do pay the Plt^f the balance of Wages and a fine of two Shillings to our Sovereign Lord the King with Costs.

Sources: PANL, GN 5/4/C/1, St. Mary's, 47-48, Frida Tobin v. Mary Bony, 28 September 1818.

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