18 Ann Kussmaul, “Time and Space, Hoofs and Grain: The Seasonality of Marriage in England,” JIH 15 (1985), 775-79.
19 R. V. Wells discovered this bimodal pattern in the season of marriage among Quakers of Rahway, Plainfield and Chesterfield, New Jersey:
Month |
Index of Marriages |
Index of Conceptions |
January |
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February |
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March |
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April |
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May |
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June |
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July |
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August |
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September |
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October |
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November |
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December |
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Total |
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Source: R. V. Wells, “A Demographic Analysis of Some Middle Colony Quaker Families of the Eighteenth Century” (thesis, Princeton, 1969), 66, 99.