05 Jun 2023, Biography curtesy of contributor 46491266 -
BIRTH: Estimated to be before 1660 based on age of 18 at marriage. She was daughter of John Tucker and Rose (likely Sturman). She was under 18 in 1672 based on gift of Thomas Gerard.
DEED: 1/28/1672-73: Deed of gift from Thomas Gerard, Esq. of Westmoreland Co., VA to John Tucker, Gerard Tucker, Sarah Tucker, and Rose Tucker "children of the deceased Mr. John Tucker in the county afsd. begotten by him on my now loving wife, Mrs. Rose Gerard" to be delivered to them at the age of 18 (Colonial Virginians and Their Maryland Relatives, Tucker).
MARRIAGE: Ebenezer Blackiston of Cecil Co, Married Widow and admtrx of William Pike, A.A. Co. 1679. Liber VI p. 474 (not sure if this is Rose Tucker) MHM Vol. XVI NO 3 p. 290
MARRIAGE: Rose Tucker married Ebenezer Blackistone after 1677 and before 1681 to Ebenezer since Ebenezer's first wife was named in her mother's Ann Tolsons 1677 will and the 1681 Letter to the Attorney General of MD asking for a divorce.
DIVORCE: This was a letter requesting a divorce for Rose from Ebenezer. I have not found for certain if it was approved. Dated 6/8/1681: Letter to Kenelm Cheseldine, Attorney General of MD, from William Fitzhugh. "Sir. The cruelty of Mr. Blackston towards my sister-in-law is grown so notorious and cruel that there is no possibility of keeping it any longer private with the preservation of her life, his cruelty already having occasioned her to make two or three attempts to destroy herself, which is not timely prevented will inevitably follow, therefore Sr. in relation of my affinity to her, as also at the instance and request of Mr. Newton, to propose some remedy. I think there's some means to be used for a separation, because of his continued cruelty, which in England is practical, here in Virginia it is a rare case, of which nature I have known but one which was between Mrs. Brent and her husband, Mr. Giles Brent; the case thus managed; she petitions the Governor and Council, setting forth his inhumane usage, upon which Petition, the Court orders her to live separate from him and he to allow her a maintenance, according to his quality and estate and to make his appearance at the next General Court, before which Court he died and so no further proceedings therein Mr. Newton can given you a full account of his cruelty and barbarity toward her and has evidences ready to prove, therefore I advised him to consult you for the manner of proceeding therein, and earnestly request you will assist him in it. It cannot properly be called a divorce, but a separation rather, for I find in Cooke on Littleton folio 235, several sorts of Divorces a Vinvulo Matromonii, but Divorces propter Saevitiam and cause Adulterii are more properly separations, because no Dissolutions a Vinculo Matromonii but only a Mensa et thoro, and the Coverture continues and consequently a maintenance allowed her and dower after his deceased, as is plentifully set forth by those that treat thereof. You may find one precedent in Cooke Car. fo. 461-462 between Porter and his wife, whereupon prosecution it was decreed, Quod propter Sevitiam of her said husband and c. I question not but you are furnished with precedents of like nature, therefore your assistance and advice in this affair is desired by----Sir, Your W. ff.
She left him because of the abuse and may have moved to Westmoreland VA and married Edward Bathhurst after 1697.
DEATH: She likely died in Westmoreland VA where her family was from when she left her husband Ebenezer and married Edward Bathhurst.
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BIRTH: Estimated to be before 1660 based on age of 18 at marriage. She was daughter of John Tucker and Rose (likely Sturman). She was under 18 in 1672 based on gift of Thomas Gerard.
DEED: 1/28/1672-73: Deed of gift from Thomas Gerard, Esq. of Westmoreland Co., VA to John Tucker, Gerard Tucker, Sarah Tucker, and Rose Tucker "children of the deceased Mr. John Tucker in the county afsd. begotten by him on my now loving wife, Mrs. Rose Gerard" to be delivered to them at the age of 18 (Colonial Virginians and Their Maryland Relatives, Tucker).
MARRIAGE: Ebenezer Blackiston of Cecil Co, Married Widow and admtrx of William Pike, A.A. Co. 1679. Liber VI p. 474 (not sure if this is Rose Tucker) MHM Vol. XVI NO 3 p. 290
MARRIAGE: Rose Tucker married Ebenezer Blackistone after 1677 and before 1681 to Ebenezer since Ebenezer's first wife was named in her mother's Ann Tolsons 1677 will and the 1681 Letter to the Attorney General of MD asking for a divorce.
DIVORCE: This was a letter requesting a divorce for Rose from Ebenezer. I have not found for certain if it was approved. Dated 6/8/1681: Letter to Kenelm Cheseldine, Attorney General of MD, from William Fitzhugh. "Sir. The cruelty of Mr. Blackston towards my sister-in-law is grown so notorious and cruel that there is no possibility of keeping it any longer private with the preservation of her life, his cruelty already having occasioned her to make two or three attempts to destroy herself, which is not timely prevented will inevitably follow, therefore Sr. in relation of my affinity to her, as also at the instance and request of Mr. Newton, to propose some remedy. I think there's some means to be used for a separation, because of his continued cruelty, which in England is practical, here in Virginia it is a rare case, of which nature I have known but one which was between Mrs. Brent and her husband, Mr. Giles Brent; the case thus managed; she petitions the Governor and Council, setting forth his inhumane usage, upon which Petition, the Court orders her to live separate from him and he to allow her a maintenance, according to his quality and estate and to make his appearance at the next General Court, before which Court he died and so no further proceedings therein Mr. Newton can given you a full account of his cruelty and barbarity toward her and has evidences ready to prove, therefore I advised him to consult you for the manner of proceeding therein, and earnestly request you will assist him in it. It cannot properly be called a divorce, but a separation rather, for I find in Cooke on Littleton folio 235, several sorts of Divorces a Vinvulo Matromonii, but Divorces propter Saevitiam and cause Adulterii are more properly separations, because no Dissolutions a Vinculo Matromonii but only a Mensa et thoro, and the Coverture continues and consequently a maintenance allowed her and dower after his deceased, as is plentifully set forth by those that treat thereof. You may find one precedent in Cooke Car. fo. 461-462 between Porter and his wife, whereupon prosecution it was decreed, Quod propter Sevitiam of her said husband and c. I question not but you are furnished with precedents of like nature, therefore your assistance and advice in this affair is desired by----Sir, Your W. ff.
She left him because of the abuse and may have moved to Westmoreland VA and married Edward Bathhurst after 1697.
DEATH: She likely died in Westmoreland VA where her family was from when she left her husband Ebenezer and married Edward Bathhurst.
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05 Jun 2023, Biography curtesy of contributor 46491266 -
BIRTH: Estimated to be before 1660 based on age of 18 at marriage. She was daughter of John Tucker and Rose (likely Sturman). She was under 18 in 1672 based on gift of Thomas Gerard.
DEED: 1/28/1672-73: Deed of gift from Thomas Gerard, Esq. of Westmoreland Co., VA to John Tucker, Gerard Tucker, Sarah Tucker, and Rose Tucker "children of the deceased Mr. John Tucker in the county afsd. begotten by him on my now loving wife, Mrs. Rose Gerard" to be delivered to them at the age of 18 (Colonial Virginians and Their Maryland Relatives, Tucker).
MARRIAGE: Ebenezer Blackiston of Cecil Co, Married Widow and admtrx of William Pike, A.A. Co. 1679. Liber VI p. 474 (not sure if this is Rose Tucker) MHM Vol. XVI NO 3 p. 290
MARRIAGE: Rose Tucker married Ebenezer Blackistone after 1677 and before 1681 to Ebenezer since Ebenezer's first wife was named in her mother's Ann Tolsons 1677 will and the 1681 Letter to the Attorney General of MD asking for a divorce.
DIVORCE: This was a letter requesting a divorce for Rose from Ebenezer. I have not found for certain if it was approved. Dated 6/8/1681: Letter to Kenelm Cheseldine, Attorney General of MD, from William Fitzhugh. "Sir. The cruelty of Mr. Blackston towards my sister-in-law is grown so notorious and cruel that there is no possibility of keeping it any longer private with the preservation of her life, his cruelty already having occasioned her to make two or three attempts to destroy herself, which is not timely prevented will inevitably follow, therefore Sr. in relation of my affinity to her, as also at the instance and request of Mr. Newton, to propose some remedy. I think there's some means to be used for a separation, because of his continued cruelty, which in England is practical, here in Virginia it is a rare case, of which nature I have known but one which was between Mrs. Brent and her husband, Mr. Giles Brent; the case thus managed; she petitions the Governor and Council, setting forth his inhumane usage, upon which Petition, the Court orders her to live separate from him and he to allow her a maintenance, according to his quality and estate and to make his appearance at the next General Court, before which Court he died and so no further proceedings therein Mr. Newton can given you a full account of his cruelty and barbarity toward her and has evidences ready to prove, therefore I advised him to consult you for the manner of proceeding therein, and earnestly request you will assist him in it. It cannot properly be called a divorce, but a separation rather, for I find in Cooke on Littleton folio 235, several sorts of Divorces a Vinvulo Matromonii, but Divorces propter Saevitiam and cause Adulterii are more properly separations, because no Dissolutions a Vinculo Matromonii but only a Mensa et thoro, and the Coverture continues and consequently a maintenance allowed her and dower after his deceased, as is plentifully set forth by those that treat thereof. You may find one precedent in Cooke Car. fo. 461-462 between Porter and his wife, whereupon prosecution it was decreed, Quod propter Sevitiam of her said husband and c. I question not but you are furnished with precedents of like nature, therefore your assistance and advice in this affair is desired by----Sir, Your W. ff.
She left him because of the abuse and may have moved to Westmoreland VA and married Edward Bathhurst after 1697.
DEATH: She likely died in Westmoreland VA where her family was from when she left her husband Ebenezer and married Edward Bathhurst.
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BIRTH: Estimated to be before 1660 based on age of 18 at marriage. She was daughter of John Tucker and Rose (likely Sturman). She was under 18 in 1672 based on gift of Thomas Gerard.
DEED: 1/28/1672-73: Deed of gift from Thomas Gerard, Esq. of Westmoreland Co., VA to John Tucker, Gerard Tucker, Sarah Tucker, and Rose Tucker "children of the deceased Mr. John Tucker in the county afsd. begotten by him on my now loving wife, Mrs. Rose Gerard" to be delivered to them at the age of 18 (Colonial Virginians and Their Maryland Relatives, Tucker).
MARRIAGE: Ebenezer Blackiston of Cecil Co, Married Widow and admtrx of William Pike, A.A. Co. 1679. Liber VI p. 474 (not sure if this is Rose Tucker) MHM Vol. XVI NO 3 p. 290
MARRIAGE: Rose Tucker married Ebenezer Blackistone after 1677 and before 1681 to Ebenezer since Ebenezer's first wife was named in her mother's Ann Tolsons 1677 will and the 1681 Letter to the Attorney General of MD asking for a divorce.
DIVORCE: This was a letter requesting a divorce for Rose from Ebenezer. I have not found for certain if it was approved. Dated 6/8/1681: Letter to Kenelm Cheseldine, Attorney General of MD, from William Fitzhugh. "Sir. The cruelty of Mr. Blackston towards my sister-in-law is grown so notorious and cruel that there is no possibility of keeping it any longer private with the preservation of her life, his cruelty already having occasioned her to make two or three attempts to destroy herself, which is not timely prevented will inevitably follow, therefore Sr. in relation of my affinity to her, as also at the instance and request of Mr. Newton, to propose some remedy. I think there's some means to be used for a separation, because of his continued cruelty, which in England is practical, here in Virginia it is a rare case, of which nature I have known but one which was between Mrs. Brent and her husband, Mr. Giles Brent; the case thus managed; she petitions the Governor and Council, setting forth his inhumane usage, upon which Petition, the Court orders her to live separate from him and he to allow her a maintenance, according to his quality and estate and to make his appearance at the next General Court, before which Court he died and so no further proceedings therein Mr. Newton can given you a full account of his cruelty and barbarity toward her and has evidences ready to prove, therefore I advised him to consult you for the manner of proceeding therein, and earnestly request you will assist him in it. It cannot properly be called a divorce, but a separation rather, for I find in Cooke on Littleton folio 235, several sorts of Divorces a Vinvulo Matromonii, but Divorces propter Saevitiam and cause Adulterii are more properly separations, because no Dissolutions a Vinculo Matromonii but only a Mensa et thoro, and the Coverture continues and consequently a maintenance allowed her and dower after his deceased, as is plentifully set forth by those that treat thereof. You may find one precedent in Cooke Car. fo. 461-462 between Porter and his wife, whereupon prosecution it was decreed, Quod propter Sevitiam of her said husband and c. I question not but you are furnished with precedents of like nature, therefore your assistance and advice in this affair is desired by----Sir, Your W. ff.
She left him because of the abuse and may have moved to Westmoreland VA and married Edward Bathhurst after 1697.
DEATH: She likely died in Westmoreland VA where her family was from when she left her husband Ebenezer and married Edward Bathhurst.
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