diuidence

Updated: June 28, 2025

Hugh Peters, of Salem, wrote to a Boston friend: "Wee haue heard of a diuidence of women & children in the baye & would bee glad of a share viz.: a young woman or girle & a boy if you thinke good." Lowell thus comments on such savage ministrations: "Let any housewife of our day who does not find the Keltic element in domestic life so refreshing as to Mr.

Alice Morse Earle - Customs and Fashions in Old New England