14 Mean age at first marriage in the Chesapeake colonies was as follows:
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Sources include Russell R. Menard, “Immigrants and Their Increase …,” in Aubrey Land, Lois Carr and Edward Papenfuse, eds., Law, Society and Politics in Early Maryland (Baltimore, 1977), 100; “The Demography of Somerset County, Maryland: A Preliminary Report”; Lorena S. Walsh, “Charles County, Maryland, 1658-1705: A Study of Chespeake Social and Political Structure” (thesis, Michigan State Univ.), ch. 2; Michael J. Kelly, “Family Reconstitution of Stepney Parish, Somerset County, Maryland” (thesis, Univ. of Md., 1971), 18-25; Kulikoff, “Tobacco and Slaves,” chap. 3; Rutman and Rutman, A Place in Time, Explicatus, 65; Susan Simmons, unpublished research on Virginia elites; R. B. Outhwaite, “Age at Marriage in England from the Late Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century,” RHST 23 (1973), 55-70; Stone, The Family, Sex and Marriage in England, 46-54; Michael W. Flinn, The European Demographic System, 1500-1820 (Baltimore, 1981), 19-29.