Abstract
purpose of this article is to chart the seasonality of marriage in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century New England comparing the pattern in the colonies to the experience in the old world. Consideration is given to the impact of traditional religious prohibitions on the timing of marriage and whether their impact extended to America. author also examines the social cultural and economic factors affecting the seasonality of marriage once the old ecclesiastical constraints disappeared. The evidence presented includes marriage records from Boston Braintree Concord Dedham Plymouth and Watertown all in Massachusetts and from a large sample of English parishes with comparative material from France. (EXCERPT)
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