Abstract

And Charles Francis Adams, Jr., declares: I think it not unsafe to assert that during eighteenth century inhabitants of New Egnland did not enjoy a high reputation for sexual morality, and he quotes, though with some reservation, Lord Dartmouth's remark to Governor Hutchinson as to the commonness of illegitimate offspring among young people of New England as a thing of accepted notoriety.'61 The general conclusion of Professor Thomas J. Wertenbaker seems tenable:

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