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Sex in Middlesex : Popular Mores in a Massachusetts County, 1649-1699
author
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Thompson, Roger.
publisher
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University of Massachusetts Press
isbn10 | asin
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0870235168
print isbn13
:
9780870235160
ebook isbn13
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9780585084213
language
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English
subject
Sex customs--Massachusetts--Middlesex County--History--17th century, Sexual ethics--Massachusetts--Middlesex County--History--17th century, Sex crimes--Massachusetts--Middlesex County--History--17th century, Puritans--Massachusetts--Middlesex County--Hist
publication date
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1986
lcc
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HQ18.U5T49 1986eb
ddc
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306.7/097444
subject
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Sex customs--Massachusetts--Middlesex County--History--17th century, Sexual ethics--Massachusetts--Middlesex County--History--17th century, Sex crimes--Massachusetts--Middlesex County--History--17th century, Puritans--Massachusetts--Middlesex County--Hist
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Sex in Middlesex
Popular Mores In A Massachusetts County, 16491699
Roger Thompson
Foreword By David D. Hall
THE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS PRESS AMHERST,1986
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Copyright 1986 by The University of Massachusetts Press ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Printed in the United States of America Set in Linoterm Bembo at The University of Massachusetts Press Printed by Cushing-Malloy and bound by John Dekker & Sons
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA Thompson, Roger, 1933 Sex in Middlesex.
Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Sex customsMassachusettsMiddlesex CountyHistory17th century. 2. Sexual ethicsMassachusettsMiddlesex CountyHistory17th century. 3. Sex crimesMassachusettsMiddlesex CountyHistory17th century. 4. Puritans MassachusettsMiddlesex CountyHistory17th century. 5. Family MassachusettsMiddlesex CountyHistory17th century. 1. Title. HQ18.U5T49 1986 306.7'097444 85-24630 ISBN 0-87023-516-8 (alk. paper)
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CONTENTS
Foreword
by David Hall
vii
Acknowledgments
xi
Preface
xiii
Introduction: Middlesex County and Its Records
3
One: Adolescent Mores
17
1 Fornication: Detection and Evasion
19
2 Courtship and Patriarchal Authority
34
3 Pregnant Brides and Broken Promises
54
4 Sexual Deviance and Abuse
71
5 Adolescent Culture
83
6 Typical Adolescents
97
Two: Married Mores
111
7 Marital Problems
115
8 Unfaithful Husbands
128
9 Unfaithful Wives
141
Three: Family And Community
155
10 Domestic Relations
157
11 Community Control
169
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Conclusion
190
Notes
201
Index
243
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FOREWORD
There are certain Dutch paintings from the seventeenth century that make vividly real the texture and tone of everyday life. Similarly, certain documents from that far-away period are unusually revealing of how ordinary people felt and acted. Such are the records of the county court in Middlesex County of the Colony and Province of Massachusetts Bay. These records include not only the formal proceedings of the court but also the depositions made by hundreds of witnesses and those charged with criminal behavior. Out of these depositions Roger Thompson has woven a story of individuals in search of freedom and security, of love and intimacyindividuals such as Sarah Crouch of Charlestown, Christopher Grant of Watertown, and Samuel and Hannah Hutchinson of Reading. In bringing these forgotten, faceless people to life Thompson has performed one of the classic services of the social historian.
The Middlesex records allow Thompson to perform another service for us, that of finding pattern and meaning in the past. The voices that remain so vivid in these documents disclose to us attitudes and actions of which we know too little. Collectively these voices instruct us on the relationship between social order and disorder. Men and women in seventeenth-century Massachusetts could make some choices, but not others, and the hundreds of cases that Thompson has studied allow him to infer persistent structures. The records strongly suggest that the puritan social system was not so rigid and the relationships between the sexes not so regulated as some historians have suggested. The argument of Sex in Middlesex is revisionist: the "puritans" and "theocrats" who throng its pages do not behave in accordance with popular stereotype or conform to the interpretations of major historians.
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