--part1_72.272a68c.26128dd2_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thought everyone might find this interesting. Art --part1_72.272a68c.26128dd2_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <[email protected]> Received: from rly-zc04.mx.aol.com (rly-zc04.mail.aol.com [172.31.33.4]) by air-zc03.mail.aol.com (v70.20) with ESMTP; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 09:25:41 -0500 Received: from lists3.rootsweb.com (lists3.rootsweb.com [206.169.84.39]) by rly-zc04.mx.aol.com (v70.21) with ESMTP; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 09:25:02 -0500 Received: (from [email protected]) by lists3.rootsweb.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id GAA11089; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 06:22:59 -0800 Resent-Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 06:22:59 -0800 X-Original-Sender: [email protected] Tue Mar 28 06:22:55 2000 Message-ID: <[email protected]> Reply-To: "Deborah Piper" <[email protected]> From: "Deborah Piper" <[email protected]> Old-To: "Virginia List" <[email protected]>, "Southwest Virginia List" <[email protected]>, "Old Fredrick Co.,VA List" <[email protected]>, "New Hampshire List" <[email protected]>, "Mass-Essex Co. List" <[email protected]>, "Maine List" <[email protected]>, "Jane Klotz" <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 08:19:18 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Subject: [MAINE] Fw: [SCKY] The Smock Wedding Resent-Message-ID: <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Resent-From: [email protected] X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/796 X-Loop: [email protected] Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [email protected] Hello List, Thought this might be informing to you. Thank goodness it is history.:-):-) Deborah Ray Piper Rockport, Spencer Co., Indiana [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: "First Families" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2000 7:43 AM Subject: [SCKY] The Smock Wedding Hello Everyone: I recently came across the following genealogical tidbit from a family history book that had come into my possession and thought I would share it with the list. The source will follow the text. THE SMOCK WEDDING "One of the more unusual customs that came to America was the SMOCK WEDDING. Under English common law if a widow remarried and brought any of her late husband's property to the marriage, the new husband became liable for any and all the debts of the previous husband. Women owned nothing in their own right, and this included their clothing. So it became the custom for indebted widows to get married in their underwear, or smocks." "The SMOCK WEDDING was tripple-fold. It was a bankruptcy proceeding; it was a marriage ceremony; it was an investiture because the bride then got a new wardrobe from her new husband". "In theory the ceremony was held for all to see, on a public highway. But in practice many smock weddings were indoors." "When Major Moses JOY married Widow Hannah WARD of Newfame, Vermont, in 1789, she was stark naked. She was in a closet, her hand extended through a hole cut in the door. Then she put on a fine set of clothes and emerged from her closet in style, to the general admiration of the assembled" Source: Ancestors and Descendants of LEWIS ROSS FREEMAN with related families By Patty Barthell Myers Penobscot Press 1995. Page 626 Florence ("Patty") B. Myers may be reached at 15 Campden Circle, San Antonio, TX 78218. If anyone has Ms. Myers email address I would be interested in receiving it. The best to you all. Harold Oliver Director America's First Families mailto:[email protected] ==== SOUTH-CENTRAL-KENTUCKY Mailing List ==== To unsubscribe from the list mode send email to: [email protected] and say unsubscribe in the msg. ==== MAINE Mailing List ==== Consider adding "estimated" dates and places to your queries to help in connecting families. ============================== The RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: Tens of millions of individuals... and counting. http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ --part1_72.272a68c.26128dd2_boundary--