Elaine’s Reviews > Customs and Fashions in Old New England: Enriched edition. Exploring the Rich Tapestry of Early New England Life > Status Update

I am loving this little book. It's contemporary information about the first English settlers is very well researched and documented. However, when writing about the early immigrants she tend to use Pilgrims and Puritans interchangeably. They are two very separate groups. Puritans migrated here to practice their very restrictive, intolerant perception of religion. Pilgrims were usually well off aristocrats.

Chapter 2 was about marriage customs. Such as the wife getting married in her smock or entirely nude. This would make all prior debts null and void. One instance was a marriage on the gallows of a woman in her smock and man condemned to hanging. This nullified his sentence and he was freed. There are so many other unexpected customs. A very fun chapter.