1st Edition

Women, Family, and Community in Colonial America Two Perspectives

By Linda Speth Copyright 1983
88 Pages
by Routledge

88 Pages
by Routledge

The influence of women in the colonial family and the community is examined using tax and probate records of southside Colonial Virginia.

Contents Introduction
  • More Than Her “Thirds”: Wives and Widows in Colonial Virginia
  • The Thrall/Divorce Case: A Family Crisis in Eighteenth-Century Connecticut
  • Reference Notes Included

Biography

Linda Speth, Alison Duncan Hirsch