7 The index of marriages in All Hallow’s Parish, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, was as follows (1700-1776):

Image

Month of

Percent of

Marriage Index

Marriage

All Marriages

m=100

Jan.

11.0

132

Feb.

12.4

149

March

5.1

61

April

7.1

85

May

6.4

77

June

6.1

73

July

7.3

88

Aug.

7.7

92

Sept.

6.6

79

Oct.

8.1

97

Nov.

9.2

110

Dec.

13.0

156

Computed from data in Earle, The Evolution of a Tidewater Settlement System, 159; similar patterns are reported for other parts of Maryland and Virginia in Darrett B. Rutman, Charles Wetherell and Anita Rutman, “Rhythms of Life: Black and White Seasonality in the Early Chesapeake,” JIH 11 (1980), 29-53; and Kulikoff, Tobacco and Slaves, 256; see also David Cressy, “The Seasonality of Marriage in Old and New England,” JIH 16 (1985), 23; for similarities between Virginia and the south of England (which was very different from the north) see Ann Kussmaul. “Time and Space, Hoofs and Grain: The Seasonality of Marriage in England,” JIH 15 (1985), 755-79.