Charity And Sylvia by Rechel Hope Cleves

The book overturns conventional notions that same-sex marriage is new. It presents evidence that the union between Charity and Sylvia was regarded as a marriage or something like it in the early nineteenth century.

This is the only history of a marriage between two American women before the Civil War.

The book draws on new and seldom-studied sources to add an unknown story to our limited knowledge of LGBT history in early America.
Regional (New England) interest; strong local history market, esp. Mass. and Vermont