A01=Else L. Hambleton
Author_Else L. Hambleton
Capital Punishment
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century
colonial American law
county
court records analysis
early modern patriarchy
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essex
Essex County
Essex County Quarterly Court
extramarital
Extramarital Conceptions
Extramarital Sexual Intercourse
Female Defendant
fornication
Fornication Prosecution
Fornication Trials
gender and sexuality studies
illegitimacy punishment in Massachusetts
Illegitimacy Rate
intercourse
legal history research
Male Defendant
Married Men
Married Women
Pregnant Partners
premarital
Premarital Fornication
Premarital Pregnancy
Premarital Sexual Intercourse
prosecutions
Puritan social norms
Quarterly Court
Robert Cross
Samuel Hunt
September Peak
Seth Story
seventeenth
Seventeenth Century Essex County
Seventeenth Century Massachusetts
Severely Whipped
sexual
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780415948609
- Weight: 560g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Aug 2004
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This study examines cases of fornication, bastardy, and paternity cases brought before the courts in Essex County, Massachusetts between 1640 and 1692. Prosecution and conviction rates, sentencing patterns, and socio-economic data, as well as attitudes, were analyzed to determine that women who bore illegitimate children were punished more severely than their male partners, and regarded with contempt by the majority of women.
