Family Life in England and America, 1690-1820, vol 2

This four-volume collection of primarily newly transcribed manuscript material brings together sources from both sides of the Atlantic and from a wide variety of regional archives. It is the first collection of its kind, allowing comparisons between the development of the family in England and America during a time of significant change. Volume 2: Making Families This volume provides a comprehensive examination of the process of creating a family, as well as some of the issues surrounding family breakdown. Documents are divided into sections covering courtship, marriage, sex and reproduction, childhood and parenthood. Gender roles are clearly defined in the source material, with documents offering specific advice to men and women.  This is Volume II.

Rachel Cope, Amy Harris, Jane Hinckley

Volume 2: Making Families. Courtship, 'What Society in Marriage Is', in Joy and Happiness to Youth (1700), Abbe d'Ancourt, 'Of Love' and 'Of Matrimony', The Lady's Preceptor (1743), Daniel Renaud, Commonplace Book, Selections from The Ladies Oracle (c. 1750), John Breues, Th e Fortunate Lovers (1754), Laetitia Pilkington, 'Th e Wish. By a Young Lady', Th e Celebrated Mrs. Pilkington's Jests: or the Cabinet of Wit and Humour (1764), Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, 'Th e Lover: A Ballad' and 'The Lover's Resolve', Th e Poetical Works of Right Honourable Lady M W - (1768), Th e Accomplished Letter-Writer (1779), Courtship Letters, Samuel Allinson, Correspondence with Betsy Smith (1765), William Tudor, Correspondence with Delia Jarvis (1773-8), William Nunwick, Two Letters (1783), Catherine Livingston and Freeborn Garrettson, Correspondence (1790-3), Sam Fothergill to John Lettsom (c.1770), Theodosia Sayre, Correspondence with Mrs Chesnut (1797), Robert Kearney Moore, Emancipation Deed for Nanny, Wife of Gilbert (1802), Singleness, Marriage and its Dissolution, Increase, The Answer of Several Ministers in and near Boston to that Case of Conscience (1695), St Mary Aldermanbury, London, Marriage Assessment (1695) Religious and Secular Authority over Marriage, Surry County, Certificates to Obtain Marriage Licenses (1735-80); Marriage Bond (1780), David Cooper and Sybil Matlack, Marriage Certificate (1747), Samuel Allinson, Marriage Certifi ate to Elizabeth Smith (1765), Samuel Allinson, Marriage Certificate to Martha Cooper (1773), Marriage and Property Relationships Richard Rogerson and Alicia Lambe, Marriage Settlement (1709), Colin Campbell and Rebecca Izard, Marriage Settlement (1768), Peter Parten, Will (1806), Th e Female Physician (1724), Advice to the Fair: An Epistolary Essay (1738), James Dolbeare, Divorce Power of Attorney (1738), William Agar vs Elizabeth Agar, Separation of Bed and Board and Adultery (1774), Nathan Burnham, Letter to his Wife (1758), 'My Wish' and 'A True Tale', Th e Description of Bath (1767), Bonham Family, Bible Records (1765-1835), , Peter Kalm's Travels in North America (1770), Sex and Reproduction , Countess of Winchilsea, 'A Letter to the Same Person' (1714), The Virgin Unmask'd (1731), Enforcing Sexual Morals via Ecclesiastical Courts in England. Buckley-Sherd Incest Case, Diocese of Chester (1731), Ripon Deanery, Diocese of York, Fornication and Penance Cases (1756-68), Godfrey Wentworth vs Dorothea Wentworth (Pilkington) (1756-7) , Thelyphthora; or, a Treatise on Female Ruin (1780) , The Female Physician (1724) , The Benefit of Procreation (1739), Clara Reeve, 'An Epithalamium', from Original Poems on Several Occasions (1769) , 'Th e Natural Child' from Miscellaneous Poems (1788) Childhood and Child Rearing, 'To a Little Invisible Being Who Is Expected Soon to Become Visible' (c. 1790) , Claim for Payment for Delivering Child (1792), Correspondence (1796 and 1809), 'Verses to her Daughter', from Poems on Several Occasions (1744), Theodore Sedgwick, Letter to his Daughter, Catherine (1799), Guardianship of Rebecca Elliot (1728), 'To my Infant Niece; her Little Sister Dying the Instant She Was Born' and 'Upon the Same', from Poems on Several Occasions (1733), Th e Friendly Instructor; or, a Companion for Young Ladies and Young Gentlemen (1741), Education and Training, Nuncupative Will (1713) Apprenticeship Indenture (1759) Correspondence about Son's Early Days at School (1769), Lessons for Children of Three Years Old (1778), Tommy Thumb's Song Book (1788), 'On A Child' and 'On the Same' from Poems by Lady Manners (1794) , Evenings at Home; or, Th e Juvenile Budget Opened (1797), Th e History of a Great Many Little Boys and Girls