EV Chapter 3

In the Chesapeake society it was interesting to read that women were so far outnumbered and therefore able to come to the Americas as indentured servants and marry in to wealthy upper class families. Chesapeake women were also able to acquire land after their husbands died, their husbands would write their will to them so that the land and money could stay in the family and be passed to the children. In New England colonies women had much less power and were in charge of trade while the men and older children would tend to the fields, family, and business. It was interesting to learn that marriage was more of a contract than a matrimony. In New England Puritans were the majority and tended to be the ones who were in charge.