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'''Why were these men deserting these women?''' I see some men just couldn’t live with their wives and some were out at sea (vessel or company?). I guess some men could have also gone hunting and went missing during their trips, but how come there were so many women without husbands who disappeared without a trace? “In the eighteenth century, deserted wives continued to predominate among the colony’s divorce petitioners, but the number of husbands complaining of desertion increased as did the numbers of wives who cited adultery in their petitions.”(Woloch, 72) Most women who went for these divorces did not know where their husbands could have gone or their said husbands admitted to committing adultery.-- Pam Petzold | '''Why were these men deserting these women?''' I see some men just couldn’t live with their wives and some were out at sea (vessel or company?). I guess some men could have also gone hunting and went missing during their trips, but how come there were so many women without husbands who disappeared without a trace? “In the eighteenth century, deserted wives continued to predominate among the colony’s divorce petitioners, but the number of husbands complaining of desertion increased as did the numbers of wives who cited adultery in their petitions.”(Woloch, 72) Most women who went for these divorces did not know where their husbands could have gone or their said husbands admitted to committing adultery.-- Pam Petzold | ||
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| + | I wondered how common divorce cases were, there are quite a few in the readings but how many more were there? Did women wait to file for divorce until they found another man willing to marry them I wonder? -- Emma C. | ||
== SC feme sole trader acts, 1712, 1744 == | == SC feme sole trader acts, 1712, 1744 == | ||
