Explain John Winthrop’s vision for Massachusetts Bay: John Winthrop was a well-educated country squire who was also the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Winthrop believed that England was morally corrupt and “overburdened with people” and he wanted a land for his children and a place in Christian history for his people. Winthrop was the leader of the Puritan exodus in 1630 when nine hundred migrants fled to America. The Puritans visualized a reformed Christian society with “authority in magistrates, liberty in people, purity in the church”.
Explain marriage under the eighteenth-century English common law: Marriage under the eighteenth-century English common law did not provided an equal contract. When the marriage occurred the bride was to relinquish the legal ownership of all of her property to her husband. The wife would not receive the dower right, the right to use but not sell, one-third of the family’s property when her husband died. When the widowed wife passed away or remarried her portion of the property was divided among the children. This resulting in that the widow’s property rights were lesser to those of the family line, which expanded over generations. The father …show more content…
White witches, also known as cunning women or men, were found in almost every community. There were possibly just as many white witches as there were ministers. People asked them for help to cure disease in humans and in cattle, to recover lost valuables, to bring prosperity or love, and for nearly every kind of situation in which normal means just weren’t enough. The authorities frowned upon white witch craft but it was hardly ever interfered with. White witchcraft was a part of everyday life. It was a way of trying to maintain the environment in a preindustrial, prescientific community.
Part 3 - Describe the positive impact that this very superstitious world felt that white witches could
Explain marriage under the eighteenth-century English common law: Marriage under the eighteenth-century English common law did not provided an equal contract. When the marriage occurred the bride was to relinquish the legal ownership of all of her property to her husband. The wife would not receive the dower right, the right to use but not sell, one-third of the family’s property when her husband died. When the widowed wife passed away or remarried her portion of the property was divided among the children. This resulting in that the widow’s property rights were lesser to those of the family line, which expanded over generations. The father …show more content…
White witches, also known as cunning women or men, were found in almost every community. There were possibly just as many white witches as there were ministers. People asked them for help to cure disease in humans and in cattle, to recover lost valuables, to bring prosperity or love, and for nearly every kind of situation in which normal means just weren’t enough. The authorities frowned upon white witch craft but it was hardly ever interfered with. White witchcraft was a part of everyday life. It was a way of trying to maintain the environment in a preindustrial, prescientific community.
Part 3 - Describe the positive impact that this very superstitious world felt that white witches could