Family:William Durkee and Martha Cross (1)

No Small Courage: A History of Women in the United States by Nancy F. Cott, p. 63-65, uses Martha Cross's pre-marital pregnancy, and the overruling by county magistrates of her father's initial refusal to let her marry William Durkee, as an example of what life was like for women in colonial New England.

1. ↑ Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Ipswich, Massachusetts to End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1910, 1919)
   2:134.

   Dirkye, William, and Martha Crose, Dec. 20, 1664. CT.R. = Essex Co. Quarterly Court