Women, Family, and Community in Colonial America: Two Perspectives / Edition 1

by Linda Speth

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780866561914
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/01/1983
Series:	Women and History Series
Pages:	88
Product dimensions:	5.81(w) x 8.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Linda Speth, Alison Duncan Hirsch

Table of Contents

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