 | Colonial Intimacies: Indian Marriage in Early New England Subjects: Indians of North America -- Marriage customs and rites -- New England; Indians of North America -- History -- Colonial period ca. 1600–1775; Marriage customs and rites -- New England -- History -- Sources; New England -- History -- Colonial period ca. 1; In 1668 Sarah Ahhaton, a married Native American woman of the Massachusetts Bay town of Punkapoag, confessed in an English court to having committed adultery. For this crime she was tried, found guilty, and publicly whipped and shamed; she contritely... Ann Marie Plane is Associate Professor of History at the University of California at Santa Barbara. |
