The Search for the Lost Ghost Town of Judge Harry Toulmin

Explorers Club (explorers.org), 2007

This Explorers Club Flag Expedition report covers the successful effort to find the missing ghost town of Washington Court House (1811 to about 1845) in Washington County, SW Alabama. The report covers the techniques used, the general area surveyed, the finds, the damage done to the topsoil and area by logging, press coverage of the Expedition, and the participants in the effort and their activities.

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1989

Professor LaPiana discusses the importance of the law found in colonial and state court reports for the development of constitutional law, criminal law in the antebellum period, and the Reconstruction era amendments. He urges the use of law reports by both legal and intellectual historians.

The American Journal of Legal History, 2005

Island, burned to death in her inner parlor while her son and daughter-in-law, Thomas and Sarah, six children, a border, and a visitor ate supper seemingly unaware of the "Unhappie accident" occurring a few scant feet away as they passed a large "saltmackrill" among themselves and discussed the events of the day. According to Thomas's later testimony, Rebecca had earlier declined to leave her room for supper because she did not like the main dish. After the diners disposed of the mackerel, Sarah dispatched Richard, one of the children, to inquire if his grandmother wanted anything and he discovered her still-smoldering body. Thus began colonial America's only prosecuted case of matricide and the 0. J. Simpson case of seventeenth-century New England. Despite the original finding of accidental death, speculation soon ran rife that foul play had befallen Rebecca, and suspicion fell on her son, Thomas, the last person known to have seen her alive. Three months later, a grand jury indicted Thomas for murder, and after a five-day trial, the court convicted him and gave him the death sentence which was carried out a week later. Despite the sensational nature of the Cornell case, it has largely been ignored by historians until Elaine Forman Crane, a distinguished historian and an especially knowledgeable scholar of colonial Rhode Island, breathed life into it with this book. Why has she done so? Because Crane uses the Cornell case to probe the underpinnings of Rhode Island and New England society, which, according to her, betrayed dysfunctional gaps between expectation and ideology on one hand and reality on the other. Thus, just as the 0. J. case rose above tawdry circumstances to reveal that black and white Americans had fundamentally different perceptions of the police and legal systems in modern cities, so, too, Crane argues, the Cornell case lay bare some ugly social truths that Rhode Islanders would have preferred to gloss over. Was Thomas Cornell guilty? Crane leaves the answer open but clearly she thinks the evidence insufficient to sustain the verdict. Why then was he convicted? And what was wrong with Rhode Island? Thomas was convicted, Crane believes, because he challenged the appropriate behavior expected of him. He was not a dutiful son but instead had often been known to be rude to his mother; he resented his dependence on her financially; and he feared she would move to one of his siblings and leave him penniless. Additionally, Thomas had made enemies politically; he seemed acquisitive and self-serving; he was irreligious in contrast to his mother's Quaker piety; and he had a bad temper. In short, Thomas seemed to personify the shortcomings of the second generation of New Englanders who deserted the principles of New England's glorious founders. He was found guilty, according to Crane, not so much because of the specific evidence of the case but because the jury and court knew so much about him that they believed he was the sort of person who would kill his mother. Crane is a fine historian who does, indeed, do a fine job of dissecting the tensions in late seventeenth-century New England. She writes beautifully and this book is engaging throughout. Some of the legal testimony she has discovered even BOOK REVIEWS rises to the titillating level of modem court television drama. The criminal inquiry first began after Rebecca's brother, John, went to the authorities with his suspicions after he received a visit from her ghost. A later witness also recalled seeing "The Great Dogg" run from Rebecca's room, which-inasmuch as the Comells had no pet-was taken to mean the Devil in disguise. Rebecca had also confessed to relatives to living "with an evil spirit," which we might well take to mean a clinical depression but authorities assumed was the Devil's temptation dwelling within. But, as enjoyable as this book may be, it is not convincing. To continue the legal idiom, Crane is forced to rely almost entirely on circumstantial evidence. Her rhetoric and honesty betray any lack of clear proof: this is a book that uses phrases such as "probably" and "it is likely" too darn much. Rhode Island was a disputatious and contentious society, and Thomas was a grumpy fellow who would never have won a Mr. Congeniality award. But nothing connects these phenomena to his guilty verdict but wishful thinking. Crane's main proposition does not have to be right, however, for her book to be valuable. Killed Strangely is entertaining and it shines a bright light on parts of seventeenth-century Rhode Island.

Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 2014

is a writer and student in a field which he describes as "social psychology." He is the co-author of "Words that Won the War" (Princeton, 1939) which deals with propaganda in World War I and is at present working on a companion volume on OWL In the police field he has written a sketch of the life of former Police Commissioner Arthur W. Wallander of New York City which appears in "The Will to Succeed" and has under preparation other writings in this field. A graduate of Stanford University (A.B.), Mr. Larson also holds a M.A. degree from George Washington University.-EDITOR.

2011

During his eight years as Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court, Wallace Jefferson has written a number of deeply engaging opinions that illustrate his command of the work required as an appellate judge. His work should be understood in light of the unusual division of appellate power in Texas, as well as the shifting but exclusively Republican composition of the membership of the Supreme Court of Texas during his tenure. Chief Justice Jefferson rarely speaks explicitly of his jurisprudential views, requiring the inquisitive to construct his interpretive manner and style through an evaluation of his implicit assumptions. The best evidence of those views is found not in his opinions for the court, but in his dissenting and concurring opinions. The following conclusions are made about his work: (1) his opinions reflect a wide knowledge of the law; (2) he is particular about the procedural framework through which the case has reached the Texas Supreme Court; (3) his opinions for a d...

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together with the members of the law school faculty workshops at George Washington University and at the University of Virginia, for their suggestions and comments. Scott Pagel, Librarian of George Washington University Law School, is owed thanks for his unstinting support. I am also grateful for the outstanding and unflagging research assistance of Steven Graines. 10. Id. 11. See id. 12. 5 JOHN HENRYWIGMORE, ATREATISE ON THE ANGLO-AMERICAN SYSTEM OF EVIDENCE IN TRIALS AT COMMON LAW § 2551, at 557 (2d ed. 1923). 13. Id. 14. Previously, regional differences had not been emphasized. Partly, this was because legal historians' work tended to focus on northern states, where records are better. An exception was a recognition of the importance of western states in the spread of the Field Code and codification generally. See, e.g., CHARLES M. COOK, THE AMERICAN CODIFICATION MOVEMENT: A STUDY OF ANTEBELLUM LEGAL REFORM (1981). Western legal history is beginning to get more attention. See, e.g., LAw FOR THE ELEPHANT, LAW FOR THE BEAVER: ESSAYS IN THE LEGAL HISTORY OF THE NORTH AMERICAN WEST (John McLaren et al. eds., 1992). Work on southern legal history tended to concentrate on one state at a time, making broader comparisons difficult. That, however, is also beginning to change. James Ely, Kermit Hall, James Bodenhamer, and Paul Finkelman have played important roles in encouraging work on the legal history of the South.

A Son of Virginia, Father of Kentucky, 2018

Readers will enjoy this article not just for the biographical information that it reveals about the McDowell family, but for the detailed frontier and Revolutionary War history that paints a vivid picture of what our region was like during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In the beginning of that period, the greater Augusta region was still very much the “wild west” while in the latter part of that era, the region was witnessing the birth and childhood of a new nation. Author Robert J. Gang III is a member of the Society of the Cincinnati in the State of Virginia and the Sons of the American Revolution (SAR). He has had a lifelong interest in the history of America. While he never knew her, his grandmother Mary McDowell Lyne left family lore of the exploits of her illustrious ancestors. One of them, Judge Samuel McDowell (1735-1817), was Robert's fifth great grandfather. Judge McDowell was Mary's patriot ancestor for the Daughters of the American Revolution and is Robert's patriot ancestor for the SAR.

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