Archive for March 2026
Drunks ‘n Patents…
I’ve brought up the disturbing occurrence of Colonial Drunks before…but they just keep presenting themselves…
Since this is a Virginia land deal…I Posted it on my , you know, Viginia site.
But thought you Tar Heels might get a kick out of it…
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For the somewhat more curious…
I do think there are instances where drunks, you know, did their drink’n thing…
Here is a example that I thought about doing a “serious” and scholarly article about a drunk. I even thought I might make a case and present it to some “hot shot and high falutin’ NC publication”. I got distracted with life I suppose, but at the time I felt “folks” should realize that “just because something is written a couple hundred years ago…doesn’t make it true just because it is old.”
This Post was written (several years ago) with the distinct supposition on my part that the freakin’ “scribe” that day in court was
1. drunk or
2. hungover from the night before “And Made a Mistake” in the Court Record.
It is a Big Deal for a simple amateur genealogist such as myself to be so presumptuous to criticize something “written in the old records”…Why? I ask.
I do not get skeered by scholars who say “tisk”, or tisk tisk even multiple times.
Note… this Joseph Pitman “mistake” on my part was written in all seriousness. Really.
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After a number of years of opportunities for folks to comment on the “drunk scribe” in the Court that day it seems no one is in any way concerned… which simply re-enforces my realization that I “am a bit touched” by all this historical minutiae…
As a last gasp for sanity, I offer “the genealogy curse” as an excuse. You have to be afflicted to understand.