Title: Colonial Women ***
Headings: Colonial Women
Colonial Women
Colonial Women

Content: They were absolutely subservient to the men in their family. Puritan Colonial Women were expected to be strong advocates of propriety, modesty and and decorum. These principles were reflected in both their behaviour and their dress. The Puritan colonial women wore their hair long but it would have been deemed unseemly for hair to be shown. The Puritans belived that "the soul consists of two portions, inferior and superior; the superior is masculine and eternal; the feminine inferior and mortal." Colonial Women - Puritan Adulterers
In the Puritan society the crime of adultery was abhorred, two known adulterers were executed in Massachusetts Bay Colony and others were publically whipped. Adulterers might have been forced to wear a scarlet "A" if they were lucky. At least two known adulterers were executed in Massachusetts Bay Colony and punishment by public whippings were commonplace and generally took place on the 'Punishing Scaffold'.