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Sex in Middlesex

Popular Mores in a Massachusetts County, 1649-1699

Social historian Roger Thompson brings the forgotten and faceless men and women in 17th-century Massachusetts to suggest that records from Middlesex County of the Colony and Province of Massachusetts Bay show that the puritan social system was not so rigid and the relationships between sexes not so regulated as some historians have suggested. The argument of 'Sex in Middlesex' is revisionist: the 'puritans' and 'theocrats' who throng its pages do not behave in accordance with popular stereotype or conform tot he interpretations of major historians.

When another witness found them in the woods together at dawn, Wilkinson
explained that they were retrieving stock, since "Durrant was so idle and lazy that
he would not looke after the cowe." Although this sounded like the pot calling the
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