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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Filles du Roi were women born to wealthy families that had fallen on hard times. Without a substantial 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
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their first settlement at Plymouth. When she became sachem, Weetamoo had to figure out how to protect her people from all of these threats.
One of her strategies was to marry men who would make her position stronger. Her first marriage was to the sachem
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. The marriage elevated Malitzen to the status of a free Spanish noblewoman, with all the rights and privileges of that class. Cortés arranged the marriage, and it is probable that he did so to get Malitzen out of his household before his wife arrived in
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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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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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enough to appear in court or make business deals on their own. Before marriage, a woman’s interests were handled by her father. After marriage, that responsibility passed to her husband. This changeover was symbolized by a woman taking her husband’s last
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