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Colonial intimacies : Indian marriage in early New England /

In 1668 Sarah Ahhaton, a married Native American woman of the Massachusetts Bay town of Punkapoag, confessed in an English court to having committed adultery. For this crime she was tried, found guilty, and publicly whipped and shamed.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Plane, Ann Marie, 1964-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2000.
Subjects and Genres:
Indians of North America > Marriage customs and rites > New England.
Indians of North America > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Marriage customs and rites > New England > History > Sources.
Indians > Marriage customs and rites > New England.
New England > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
New England.
Sources.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1.
  • "Amongst their nation"
  • 14
  • 2.
  • "My heart did love the having of two wives"
  • 41
  • 3.
  • "They had made a Law against it"
  • 67
  • 4.
  • "In their Families"
  • 96
  • 5.
  • "They ... take one another without Ceremony"
  • 129
  • 6.
  • "At the Marriages of their Sachems"
  • 153.
  • "Amongst their nation"
  • "My heart did love the having of two wives"
  • "They had made a Law against it"
  • "In their Families"
  • "They ... take one another without Ceremony"
  • "At the Marriages of their Sachems."

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