"11 Jan 1681/82. Thomas Herbert, Servt. to Mr. Benjamin Dogget, lifting upp his hande against his saide Master, hee is therefore ordered for his contempt forthwth: to receive twenty Lashes on his bare backe well laide on, the Sheriffe to see the same executed." (1)
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Ruth Sparacio & Sam Sparacio, Order Book Abstracts of Lancaster County, Virginia 1678-1681 (McLean, Virginia: The Antient Press, 1993), 97, quoting Lancaster County, Virginia Order Book 1680-1686, 70.