Common Whores, Vertuous Women, and Loveing Wives: Free Will Christian Women in Colonial Maryland

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Common Whores, V ertuous Women, and Loveing Wives Debra A. Meyers Free Will Christian Women in Colonial Maryland Common Whores, Vertuous Women, and Loveing Wives Religion in North America Vo l u me 3 1 i n t he se ri e s Catherine L. Albanese and Stephen J. Stein, editors Common Whores, Vertuous Women, and Loveing Wives Free Will Christian Women in Colonial Maryland
Debra Meyers This book is a publication of Indiana University Press 601 North Morton Street Bloomington, IN 47404-3797 USA http://iupress.indiana.edu Telephone orders 800-842-6796 Fax orders 812-855-7931 Orders by e-mail iuporder@indiana.edu© 2003 by Debra Meyers All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. The Association of American University Presses’ Resolution on Permissions constitutes the only exception to this prohibition. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. Manufactured in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Meyers, Debra, date Common whores, vertuous women, and loveing wives : free will Christian women in colonial Maryland / Debra Meyers. p. cm. — (Religion in North America ; v. 31) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-253-34193-0 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Women—United States—Maryland—History. 2. Women and religion—United States—Maryland—History. 3. Maryland—History. I. Title: Common whores, virtuous women, and loving wives. II. Title. III. Series. HQ1438.M3 M49 2003 305.4′09752—dc21 2002010626 1 2 3 4 5 08 07 06 05 04 03 ...