[RegulatorCountry]

Presbyterians didn’t run the show in colonial Virginia, they were outsiders who typically tried to live outside the reach of the state church. That doesn’t justify maiming a person, but there might be more behind it than you know because they were not the religious authority there.

[Ditter]

I am not quite sure if it was Virginia or the Carolinas, not even positive it was an ancestor of mine but the name was sure passed down all the way, every other generation, to my great grand father.