Mixed woman of English and Creek. Married to 3 men, all white. She and her husbands opened a trading post with Indians
Mary Bosonworth
An English Catholic Woman, never married, she became a very wealthy land owner, very politically influential
Margaret Brent
Quaker who was executed in Massachusetts
Mary Dyer
Quaker missionaries (2)
Jane Fenn, Sarah Morris
Didn’t follow the puritans belief , holding prayer meetings preaching like a minister and flew out of Massachusetts for exile
Anne Hutchinson
Captured and adopted into the seneca tribe when she was 15. Refused to return when the opportunity came
Mary Jemison
A slave who managed to gain freedom and bought their own peace of lands and became very successful farmers
Mary Johnson
Dutch colonist who was a successful business women
Margaret Hardenbroeck
Taken captive and wrote a book about it called true history of true captivity of miss Mary Rowlandson
Mary Rowlandson
Taken to court for promising to marrying several men
Eleanor Spragg
Daughter of a chief of the mohawk and a christian women from another tribe grew up christian the first native american saint
Kateri Tekakwitha
Identity and property comes from the mother
Matrilineal
Identity and property comes through the father
Patrilineal
The young married couple goes to live with the mother
Matrifocal
Not actually marriages. Generally white man indian american women who decided to live together for live and have a family
Country Marriages*
Women marrying men for drugs
Tobacco Brides*
English married ladies
Good wives
Married women
Feme covert
Women who never married or widowed
Femes sole
Helped coach women to give birth to a baby
Midwives
Gender composition of Jamestown prior to 1620
first Africans arrive in James town
first saw women in jamestown
first democratic assembly in america
Proportion of women who arrived in the Chesapeake as indentured servants
3/4 of women came from England as indentured servants
1/4 women came to marry a specific person for tobacco
Important legal function often exercised by women in the southern colonies
women become a deputy husband and represent her husband in legal matters if he was away
Taxation of women’s labor?
labor of black women’s taxed not white women in portions of the south
Status of marriage in the New England colonies
legal relationships
Could women in the English colonies divorce their husbands?
yes if they were abandoned and husband beat the wife severely
Legal “victim” in cases of rape in New England
the husband of the women that had been raped
Important legal function often exercised by women in New England
running their husbands homes
Married women working outside the home in New England?
Not married women/widows
Reasons for the occurrence of witchcraft hysteria in New England (4)
- religious tension between churches
- nervous because of indian attacks
- the population is growing and puts pressure on land available
- economic change
Changes in the lives of New England women in the late 18th century (4)
- purchase goods you used to make
- increase in feminine skills “needle work”
- some even married will work outside the home
- widows own their own business
Dutch view of the relationship between husband and wife
Equal Partners
Legal status of women in English colonies
nonexistent they were treated like children or feeble minded
Quaker view concerning equality
believes all people were equal/ pacifist