CapeLinks Cape Cod Massachusetts MA
Welcome to CapeLinks, a community website focused on Cape Cod and the Islands of Nantucket & Martha's Vineyard. Please register to participate.
All | Articles | Maps | Weather | News | Photos | Lodging Guide | Summer Rentals | Classifieds Listgot something to add to CapeLinks? post it here ♦ have a Cape Cod question? ask it here
Continuous Marriage
The average age of a girl to be married was, in the seventeenth century, fifteen. For a boy it was slightly higher, his promptness in the matter being assisted by the aversion of the colonists to bachelors.
It was not in the least uncommon for a man to marry five or six times as the life span of the women was about thirty years. Widows and widowers were not exempt from the public sentiment against unmarried persons.
The promptness of these re-marriages is more startling than their frequency. The number of offspring produced in the colonial family is enormous, but many of the children died at an early age. Clearly our ancestors specialized in production rather than in preservation.
What do you think about Continuous Marriage? Leave a comment
• tell-a-friend • link to this post
 |
Posted by capelinks - (website) on 05/10/06
Categories: History, Life
Keywords: history, life
• view all posts by capelinks •
Become a registered member and post an article, blog, classified, summer rental, upload images, voice your opinion, or review something on Cape Cod.
|
(advertise here keyword: featured) |
Comments:
No comments yet.leave a comment
Related Posts: are tagged with history, life
- Walk The Streets of Barnstable Village-History/Haunted
- Samuel de Champlain Was Here
- Traces of the Indians
- Captain Kidd Was Here
- Cape Cod Cemeteries Map
<< He Taught Our Sea Captains | Nancy And The Savings Bank >>
Leave a Comment:
Read More About Cape Cod
