History: Lois Green Carr And Lorena S. Walsh

Historians, Lois Green Carr and Lorena S. Walsh, have came to identify several factors that demonstrate the higher status and the fewer restraints that women residing in Maryland held. The women in England had additional restraints and a lower social status. This was expressed in The Planter’s Wife. In the late 1680’s, many immigrants came to Maryland. The majority of these immigrants were found to be men. Very few women chose to resettle. Many did not wish to leave their families and communities to go into an unfamiliar area. The six to one ratio of men to women would show severe imbalance in Maryland. Most women came to Maryland as indentured servants, recruited by merchants. Some came in search of a husband. Other women saw that Maryland’s