Dangerous Harbor Project: Accomack County Court Orders, 1690-1697

1690-1697 court orders from Accomack County, Virginia, totaling 50 TIFF files. The documents were created to settle disputes between residents, issue punishments, judgments, and fines. This collection was created by Kara Long and focuses on identifying escaped unfree laborers in the 17th century Chesapeake.

Use Cases

• Analyze legal punishments and fines based on the described court orders.
• Study social disputes and conflict resolution in a colonial community based on the described settlement function.
• Research the identification and recapture of unfree laborers based on the described purpose of the documents.

Strengths

• 50 high-resolution TIFF image files of primary source documents.
• Covers a specific 7-year period from 1690 to 1697.
• Focuses on a specific geographic region, Accomack County, Virginia.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Dangerous Harbor Project

Collection Method

Scanned historical documents.

Time Range

1690-1697

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-15 14:32:59; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Accomack County, Virginia, Chesapeake region