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Contain a multitude of references to women
- The Plymouth Colony Court Records, however, contain a multitude of references to women. The majority of these references deal with unusual occurrences rather than the daily lives of women, and thus give an interesting view onto the lives and roles of women in the society of the Plymouth Colony.
The first four volumes of the Plymouth Colony Court Records contain 53 references to women being accused of a crime, which constitutes one of the most abundant categories of references.
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This section of the Plymouth Colony Archive presents a collection of searchable court records, including Plymouth Colony laws, land patents and cattle divisions, and 17th century texts, such as Mourt's Relation (1622) and Goode Newes from New England (1624).
While the court records of Plymouth Colony reveal much about the daily activities of the law-abiding men of the Colony, they tell us little about the women (except for those few women who broke the law). There was, in fact, no officially recognized role for the law-abiding married woman.
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Nov 19, 2018 · Unlike the majority of Plymouth Colony women, Elizabeth Warren’s name appeared regularly in the records during the 45 years she was a widow. In 1635, her name appeared in the records as a totally independent agent. In 1652, a petition against Elizabeth was filed in court.
To obtain a measure of the relative frequency of different criminal charges and the types of punishments imposed, Powers reviewed the General Court and Court of Assistants records set out in the Plymouth Colony Records (PCR) for a ten-year period, from April 1, 1633 through 1643.
Jun 3, 2019 · The Plymouth Court Records are an edition of the records of the Courts of Common Pleas and the General Sessions of the Peace of Plymouth Colony (later Plymouth County, Massachusetts). The edition is arranged: v. 1. General Sessions of the Peace, 1686-1721. The Court of Common Pleas, 1686-1702; v. 2-4. General Sessions of the Peace, 1719[-1827 ...
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