Does anyone know the age range for first marriages during the mid to late 1700s in New England and New York? Was 16-18 too young, especially for males? Thank you. Pat Orman Fountain Hills, Arizona

Pat, I found one article online that suggests that in New England the average age at first marriage for males was 25-26 while for females it was 18-20 (see http://www.usigs.org/library/research_aids/sue_recipes/recipe13b.html). I did an analysis* of my own data and came up with an average of 24 for males and 21 for females. This data includes 112 males and 113 females born between 1700 and 1800 for whom I have both a birth date and marriage date. Of these 5 of the males and 17 of the females were under the age of 18. Roger Phillips *I tried 3 different genealogy programs before I could find one - Family Tree Maker - that could give me the age at first marriage. I then exported the data to Excel to analyze it. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 12:29 PM Subject: [NYCAYUGA] marriage age - mid to late 1700s > Does anyone know the age range for first marriages > during the mid to late 1700s in New England and > New York? Was 16-18 too young, especially for males? > > Thank you. > Pat Orman > Fountain Hills, Arizona > > > ==== NYCAYUGA Mailing List ==== > Have you visited the NYGenWeb project home page lately? > http://www.rootsweb.com/~nygenweb > > ============================== > Jumpstart your genealogy with OneWorldTree. Search not only for > ancestors, but entire generations. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13972/rd.ashx > > >