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. 17

Catherine Lancrop v. John Doody, Jr.
29 September 1818
Before John Gordon, Surrogate

Pltf complains of an assault States that she served the Df^t nearly one year and that he did not pay her passage out, she further states that Df^t did strike her, drew blood from her and that she lay some time for dead

The Df^t appearing in Court admits striking the Plt^f and giving no reason why he should not pay the Plaintiffs passage Money

Decreed the Df^t do pay afine of Forty Shillings to our Sovereign Lord the King for assaulting the Pltf also to pay the balance of her Wages together with the passage Money with Court Fees 2^nd Class.

Sources: PANL, GN 5/4/C/1, St. Mary's, 52, Catherine Lancrop v. John Doody, Jr., 29 September 1818.

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