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From: "Miriam Taylor-Cotton" <>
Subject: [MAFRANKL] Recent Miss vs Mrs. query
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 11:31:54 -0400

>>The title "Mrs." was simply a term of respect, and had no reference to the
marriage relation,-- a lady of high social standing, whether married or
single, being addressed as Mistress, or with the abbreviated form Mrs. <<

Noted after 1st 10 marriages recorded in Andover, MA 1647-1648

Source: [CHAPTER I -p. 76]
HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF ANDOVER.
by Sarah Loring Bailey, 1880
OCR editing by Phylis Holmes, scanned and OCRed by David Blackwell
http://www.usigs.org/library/books/ma/Andover1880

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