Marriage Contracts in the Spanish Colonies
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In early September 1700, Doña María del Pino Argote and her daughters moved into a convent
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this City order and direct said Margriet Hardenbroeck, before the solemnization of her marriage to deliver to this Board a statement and inventory of the property, left by said Pieter Rudolfus and to be settled on his child as inheritance. This she is
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interests. He became a seigneur and also made a fortune in trade, although his specialty was fish, not furs. Over the course of their eighteen-year marriage, Charlotte gave birth to sixteen children, which means that she spent basically their entire marriage
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dowry, they could not hope to make a good marriage in France, and without a good marriage, their future was uncertain. The opportunity to start over with a small dowry and guaranteed husband was appealing. If their new husbands were successful, they
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first marriage was to the sachem of the Saugus, another community of the Wampanoag Confederacy. When he died shortly after their wedding, she married Wamsutta, the son of the Massasoit, the great sachem of the Wampanoag Confederacy. Her sister married
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Hernán to the area of modern-day Honduras, where she again served as his interpreter while he tried to suppress a rebellion. In the same year, Malintzin married Juan Jaramillo, one of Hernán’s captains. The marriage elevated Malintzin to the status of a
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marriage be banished and removed from this dominion forever and that the justices of each respective county within this dominion make it their particular care, that this act be put in effectual execution,
Interracial marriage is declared illegal. Any white
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woman will become free, and their children will be born free.
XII. The children who will be born of marriage between slaves will be slaves and will belong to the master of the women slaves, and not to those of their husband, if the husband and the wife
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Smith
John Gadsby Chapman, Pocahontas Saving the Life of Captain John Smith, ca. 1836-40. Patricia D. Klingenstein Library, New-York Historical Society.
Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
Sidney E. King, Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
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Compare and contrast the legal and economic rights of English, Spanish, French, and Dutch women by coupling this document with the will of Joseph Grover, the marriage contract of Doña María del Pino Argote, and the life story of Charlotte
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