Genealogy Projects tagged with Ducking stool on the Geni Family Tree

Punished in Colonial America

I've been running across ancestors who were publicly "punished" in Colonial America, have you? Here's a project to remember what they endured.* from Crimes and Punishment in Colonial America In Colonial America the court structure was quite different from Great Britain. The colonial system was a hierarchy of overlapping courts and common law was the law of the land. The common law was greatly i...