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