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Considered Affinity: Kinship, Marriage, and Social Class in New France, 1640–1729

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2016

Maureen Molloy
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The French settlers who peopled Quebec during the seventeenth century were, by and large, detached individuals without kin in the New World. Of the 5,007 permanent settlers, only 661 (13%) had relations beyond the nuclear family amongst other settlers (Guillemette and Légáré 1989: Table 8). These figures suggest that for the majority of settlers kinship was not an important factor in the decision to migrate to New France.

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Social Science History , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , Spring 1990 , pp. 1 - 26
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Copyright © Social Science History Association 1990 

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