Possibly related: 16% of Quaker women were unmarried by age 50, compared to only about 2% of Puritans.

Joe Klein Explains How the History of Four Centuries Ago Still Shapes American Culture and Politics, New York Times Based on an acclaimed exhibition at the Virginia Historical society, the book studies three stages of migration to, within, and from Virginia. Each stage has its own story to tell. All of them together offer an opportunity to study the westward movement through three centuries, as it has rarely been studied before. Sumner, William Graham Folkways: A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals. Project Gutenberg E-Book, iv. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/24253/24253-h/24253-h.htm Last accessed: March 19, 2013. The book has won a number of awards including the American Association of University Presses prize for overall excellence in 1996. [10] See also [ edit ] They then see various Hispanic groupings: New Mexican, Northeast Mexico, West Mexico, Dominican, “Caribbean” which overall they find very hard to separate.

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The Quakers’ marriage customs combined a surprisingly modern ideas of romance, with extreme bureaucracy. The wedding process itself had sixteen stages, including “ask parents”, “ask community women”, “ask community men”, “community women ask parents”, and “obtain a certificate of cleanliness”. William Penn’s marriage apparently had forty-six witnesses to testify to the good conduct and non-relatedness of both parties.

On the other hand, they were also opposed to other sports for what seem like kind of random reasons. The town of Morley declared an anathema against foot races, saying that they were “unfruitful works of darkness”. The Quakers began arriving in great numbers in 1675, settling in the Delaware Valley, spreading out into what is today western New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania. Sandwiched between Puritan Massachusetts and Royalist Virginia, Woodward (2011) refers to this region as the Midlands. Now Han et al take this field high-tech with the publication of Clustering Of 770,000 Genomes Reveals Post-Colonial Population Structure Of North America (h/t gwern, werttrew) And I guess we still haven’t ruled out the maximally boring explanation that interbreeding is entirely geographic and north-south is a bigger distinction than east-west so we’re just seeing the country divided into five equal-sized latitudinal bands. Color each grid’s dot with the largest cluster having ancestors there. So if in one square there were 10 ancestors of people in cluster 1 born and there and 15 of cluster of two (and zero of everyone else), color it cluster 2. Scale each grid’s dot by the number of total “pedigree annotations”, that is the total number of people with ancestor’s who were born there.He consistently conflates the Welsh (and Cornish) language with the Gaelic language of Ireland and Highland Scotland. As an Englishman of part-Welsh descent, now domiciled in a Gaelic-speaking region of Scotland, I’m not sure which party would view this proposition with greater scorn. Welsh and Gaelic are of course kindred languages of the Celtic family, and still have some very close similarities (a privy is a ty bach in Welsh and a tigh beag in Gaelic) but they had been going their separate ways for thousands of years before any of their speakers crossed the Atlantic. The Quaker political philosophy was good governance, liberty, and peace. Politics, in their view, was “an element of religion itself, a thing holy in its institution and its goal.” These religious precepts’ political significance, however, was up for debate. On matters of public concern, Quakers fought vehemently amongst themselves. According to the text, Pennsylvania was the colony where the notion of small government spread the furthest.