Escaping Matrimony: A Documentary History of Eloping Spouses in Colonial America

Antonio T. Bly

doi:10.5771/9781666910919

Summary

Escaping Matrimony is a documentary history of hundreds of husbands and wives who ran away from one another over the course of the eighteenth-century. In this collection of elopement advertisements, men and women protested marriage, challenged coverture, and declared themselves independent and free. In an endeavor to discredit and intimidated their spouses, husbands and wives used early American newspapers to achieved at once voice and agency in a complex world that would have preferred that they endured unnoticed and in silence.

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Edition: 1/2023
Copyright Year: 2023
ISBN-Print: 978-1-6669-1090-2
ISBN-Online: 978-1-6669-1091-9
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 402
Product Type: Monograph

1. Dedication No access
2. Contents No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
1. To the Public No access
2. To the Public No access
3. Notes No access
A Note on the Notices No access Pages 33 - 34
1. 1. Connecticut No access
  2. Delaware No access
  3. Georgia No access
  4. Maine No access
  5. Massachusetts No access
  6. New Hampshire No access
  7. New Jersey No access
  8. New York No access
  9. North Carolina No access
  10. Pennsylvania No access
  11. Rhode Island No access
  12. South Carolina No access
  13. Vermont No access
  14. Virginia No access
1. Virginia No access
2. Maryland No access
3. 1. Elopement No access
  2. A Caution No access
  3. Notice No access
  4. Runaway Wife No access
  5. Runaway Wife No access
4. Georgia No access
1. Massachusetts No access
2. Connecticut No access
3. Take Notice No access
4. Rhode Island No access
5. New Hampshire No access
1. New York No access
2. To the Public. No access
3. To the Public No access
4. Notice No access
5. Notice No access
6. New Jersey No access
7. To the Public No access
8. Delaware No access
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10. Five Pounds Reward No access
Appendix A No access Pages 349 - 352
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1. Note No access
Appendix D No access Pages 361 - 370
Glossary No access Pages 371 - 378
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2. MARYLAND No access
3. SOUTH CAROLINA No access
4. GEORGIA No access
5. MASSACHUSETTS No access
6. CONNECTICUT No access
7. RHODE ISLAND No access
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9. NEW YORK No access
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12. PENNSYLVANIA No access
Subject Index No access Pages 397 - 400
About the Author No access Pages 401 - 402