Single young women in Colonial America were expected to live with and care for their parents and even siblings, and do free work.
They were also expected to get married. Many quite young teens (normal for the times) married just to escape from home (just like in modern times).
Women who never married often only received a bedsted (a frame) and a feather mattress when the father or mother died.
Live with their parents
Single young women in Colonial America were expected to live with and care for their parents and even siblings, and do free work.They were also expected to get married. Many quite young teens (normal for the times) married just to escape from home (just like in modern times).Women who never married often only received a bedsted (a frame) and a feather mattress when the father or mother died.
Between 16 and 20 it was expected for young colonial men and women to marry.
Yes, they could, I really dont have a reason.
Sometimes if they were educated, but slaves weren't.
Live with their parents
Single young women in Colonial America were expected to live with and care for their parents and even siblings, and do free work.They were also expected to get married. Many quite young teens (normal for the times) married just to escape from home (just like in modern times).Women who never married often only received a bedsted (a frame) and a feather mattress when the father or mother died.
Single young women in Colonial America were expected to live with and care for their parents and even siblings, and do free work.They were also expected to get married. Many quite young teens (normal for the times) married just to escape from home (just like in modern times).Women who never married often only received a bedsted (a frame) and a feather mattress when the father or mother died.
Their parents chose for them.
Single young women in Colonial America were expected to live with and care for their parents and even siblings, and do free work.They were also expected to get married. Many quite young teens (normal for the times) married just to escape from home (just like in modern times).Women who never married often only received a bedsted (a frame) and a feather mattress when the father or mother died.
Get married and start to have babies. Most were married by 12 years old.
Between 16 and 20 it was expected for young colonial men and women to marry.
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Between 16 and 20 it was expected for young colonial men and women to marry.