III. MATRIMONIAL INSTITUTIONS IN THE UNITED STATES
A. MANUSCRIPTS
In the office of the Clerk of Courts, Middlesex County, Mass.:
Files of the County Court for Middlesex County, 1655-91.
Records of the County Court for Middlesex County, 1649-86. 4 vols. Vol. II (1664-70) missing.
Records of the Court of General Sessions of the Peace for Middlesex County, 1692-1822. 9 vols., folio. Vol. I contains court records for the period October, 1686, to March, 1688/89.
In the office of the Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court for the County of Suffolk, Mass.:
Early Court Files of Suffolk, 1629-1800. A collection of files of colonial and provincial courts, of the Superior Court of Judicature held in the several counties, and of the Supreme Judicial Court. Several hundred volumes for the colonial and provincial periods.
Records of the Court of General Sessions of the Peace for the County of Suffolk, 1702-32. 4 vols., folio; and a volume of fragments, 1738-80.
Minute Books of the Court of General Sessions for the County of Suffolk, 1743-73. Fragments. 5 vols., folio.
Records of the Superior Court of Judicature, Court of Assizes and General Goal Delivery in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, 1692-1780. 33 vols., folio. Vol. II also contains records of various courts, 1686-87.
Records of the Governor and Council, or of the Council, relating to Divorces, 1760-86. 1 vol., folio, marked "Divorce."
In the Boston Athenæum:
Records of the County Court of Suffolk County, October, 1671, to April, 1680.
In the New York State Library, Albany:
New York Colonial Manuscripts: Dutch, 1630-64; English, 1664-1776.
Marriage License Bonds, for the Provincial Period. Ca. 40 vols.
B. BOOKS AND ARTICLES
Adams, Charles Francis. Some Phases of Sexual Morality and Church Discipline in Colonial New England. Reprinted from Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, June, 1891. Cambridge, 1891.
——— Three Episodes of Massachusetts History. 2 vols. Boston, 1893.
Adams, Marion. Courtship and Marriage in Colonial New England. A Thesis in the History Department, Stanford University, 1897.
Albany, Annals of. Joel Munsell, compiler. 10 vols. Albany, 1850-59.
Albany, Collections on the History of, from its Discovery to the Present Time, with Notices of its Public Institutions and Biographical Sketches of Citizens Deceased. Joel Munsell, compiler. 4 vols. Albany, 1865-71.
Andrews, Andrela Lilian. Studies in Sewall's Diary. A Thesis in the History Department, Stanford University, 1897.
Andros Tracts. A Collection of Pamphlets and Official Papers, issued during the period between the overthrow of the Andros Government and the establishment of the Second Charter of Massachusetts. Publications of the Prince Society. 3 vols. Boston, 1868-74.
Applegarth, A. C. "Quakers in Pennsylvania." Johns Hopkins University Studies, X. Baltimore, 1892.
Arnold, S. G. History of the State of Rhode Island. 2 vols. New York, 1874.
Atwater, E. E. A History of the Colony of New Haven. New Haven, 1881.
Bacon, Leonard. The Genesis of the New England Churches. New York, 1874.
Bailey, Frederick W. Early Connecticut Marriages as Found on Ancient Church Records Prior to 1800. New Haven, [1896].
——— Early Massachusetts Marriages Prior to 1800 as Found on the Official Records of Worcester County. First Book. New Haven, [1897].
Bailey, Sarah Loring. Historical Sketches of Andover, Massachusetts. Boston, 1880.
Ballard, E. A. (editor). The Act Relating to Marriage Licenses, etc., in Pennsylvania. 2d ed. Philadelphia, 1885.
Bancroft, George. History of the United States of America. 6 vols. New York, 1886.
Bancroft, H. H. The Native Races of the Pacific States. 5 vols. New York, 1875-82.
Bartlett, Jonathan. Remarks on the Question, Is it lawful to marry the sister of a deceased wife? Bridgeport, 1814.
Belknap, Jeremy. The History of New Hampshire. Dover, 1812.
——— "Queries respecting the Slavery and Emancipation of Negroes in Massachusetts, proposed by the Hon. Judge Tucker of Virginia, and answered by the Rev. Dr. Belknap (1795)." 1 Massachusetts Historical Collections, IV, 191-211. Reprinted, Boston, 1835.
Bishop, J. P. New Commentaries on Marriage, Divorce, and Separation. 2 vols. Chicago, 1891.
Bliss, W. R. Colonial Times on Buzzard's Bay. Boston, 1888.
——— Side Glimpses from the Colonial Meeting-House. Boston, 1896.
Booth, Mary L. History of the City of New York from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time. New York, 1859.
Boston, Town Records of, 1634-1777. 7 vols. In 2d, 7th, 8th, 12th, 14th, 16th, and 18th Reports of the Boston Record Commission. Boston, 1876-1900.
Bradford, William. History of Plymouth Plantation. Boston, 1856.
Brigham, William (editor). The Compact with the Charter and Laws of New Plymouth, etc. Boston, 1836.
Brodhead, J. R. History of the State of New York. 2 vols. New York, 1853-71.
Brooks, H. M. The Olden Time Series. The Days of the Spinning-Wheel in New England. Boston, 1886.
Browne, William Hand. "Maryland. The History of a Palatinate." In American Commonwealths. 4th ed. Boston, 1888.
Browne, W. Hardcastle. A Digest of Statutes, Decisions, and Cases throughout the United States upon the Subjects of Divorce and Alimony. Philadelphia, 1872.
——— A Commentary on the Law of Divorce and Alimony. Philadelphia, 1890.
Bruce, P. A. Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century. 2 vols. New York and London, 1896.
Buford, H. M. The Rights of Property of Married Women under the Laws of Kentucky. Read before the Lexington Bar Association. Cincinnati, 1871.
Burnaby, Andrew. Travels through the Middle Settlements in North America in the Years 1759-60. London, 1798.
Butler, J. D. "British Convicts Shipped to American Colonies." American Historical Review, II. New York, 1897.
Campbell, Douglas. The Puritan in Holland, England, and America. 2 vols. New York, 1892.
Carlier, Auguste. Le mariage aux États-Unis. Paris, 1860.
——— Histoire du peuple américain. 2 vols. Paris, 1864.
——— Marriage in the United States. Trans. by B. Joy Jeffries. Boston, 1867.
Carroll, B. R. Historical Collections of South Carolina. 2 vols. New York, 1836.
Chalmers, George. Political Annals of the Present United Colonies. Book I. London, 1780.
——— "Christian Marriage." Church Quarterly Review, XII, 1-35. London, 1881.
Clericus (pseud.). Reasons in favor of the erasure of the law which forbids a man to marry his deceased wife's sister. New York, 1827.
——— The argument of Domesticus [pseud. of Alexander McClelland] on the question whether a man may marry his deceased wife's sister. New York, 1827.
Colden, Cadwallader. "Letters on Smith's History of New York." Collections of the New York Historical Society, Fund Series, I. 1868.
Connecticut. Acts and Laws of his Majesty's English Colony of Connecticut in New England, in America. Folio. Revisions of New London, 1715, 1750, and New Haven, 1769.
——— Acts and Laws of the State of Connecticut in America. Folio. New London, 1784.
——— General Court. Code of 1650, to which are added Extracts from Laws and Judicial Proceedings of New Haven Colony commonly called Blue Laws. Hartford, 1822.
——— The Code of 1650, being a compilation of the earliest laws of the General Court. Hartford, 1836.
——— The Book of the General Laws for the People within the Jurisdiction of Connecticut; collected out of the Records of the General Court. Folio, 1673. A fac-simile reprint from a copy of the original edition in the possession of Mr. Geo. Brinley. Hartford, 1865.
——— The Public Records of the Colony of, 1636-1780. Ed. by J. H. Trumbull and C. J. Hoadly. 17 vols. Hartford, 1850 ff. (Cited as Conn. Col. Rec.)
Convers, D. Marriage and Divorce in the United States. Philadelphia, 1889.
Cook, F. G. "The Marriage Celebration." Four articles, Atlantic Monthly, LXI, February-May, 1888. Boston, 1888.
Cooke, John Esten. "Virginia: A History of the People." In American Commonwealths. Boston, 1884.
Cooke, Parsons. The Marriage Question: or the lawfulness of marrying the sister of a deceased wife, considered. Boston, 1842.
Cowley, Charles. Browne's Divorce and its Consequences. 13th ed. Lowell, 1877.
——— Famous Divorces of All Ages. Lowell, 1878.
——— "Divorces and Divorce Laws of the Fathers of New England." Albany Law Journal, XX, 110-13, 131-33. Albany, 1879.
——— Our Divorce Courts: Their Origin and History; Why they are needed; How they are abused; and How they may be reformed. 2d ed. Lowell, 1880.
Croese, Gerard. Historia Quakeriana. 1st ed., Amsterdam, 1695; English ed., London, 1696.
Davis, Andrew McFarland. The Law of Adultery and Ignominious Punishments. Worcester, 1895.
——— Certain Additional Notes ... on ... Ignominious Punishments and the Massachusetts Currency. From the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, April 26, 1899. Worcester, 1899.
Delaware. Acts of the General Assembly, 1752-1792. Folio.
——— Laws of the Government of New Castle, Kent, and Sussex, upon Delaware. By B. Franklin and D. Hall. Philadelphia, 1752.
Dexter, H. M. The Congregationalism of the Last Three Hundred Years, as Seen in its Literature. New York, 1880.
Dimock, Susan Whitney. Births, Marriages, and Deaths from the Records of the Town and Churches in Coventry, Connecticut, 1711-1844. New York, 1897.
"Domesticus." The Doctrine of Incest stated, with an examination of the question, whether a man may marry his deceased wife's sister. 2d ed. New York, 1827.
"Dorchester, Town Records of." 4th Report of Boston Record Commission.
Doyle, J. A. English Colonies in America. 3 vols. New York, 1882-87.
Drake, S. A. The Making of New England, 1580-1643. New York, 1887.
——— Old Landmarks of Boston. Boston, 1889.
Drake, Samuel G. The History and Antiquities of the City of Boston. Boston, 1854.
Du Bois, W. E. Burghardt. "The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade." Harvard Historical Studies, I. New York, 1896.
Dunton, John. The Life and Errors. 2 vols. Westminster, 1818.
——— "Life and Errors [written 1686]." 2 Massachusetts Historical Collections, II. Boston, 1814.
——— "Letters Written from New England A. D., 1686." Prince Society Publications. With Notes and an Appendix by W. H. Whitmore. Boston, 1867.
Durfee, Thomas. Gleanings from the Judicial History of Rhode Island. Providence, 1883.
Earle, Alice Morse. "Old-Time Marriage Customs in New England." Journal of American Folk-Lore, VI, 97-102. Boston, 1893.
——— Customs and Fashions in Old New England. New York, 1894.
——— Colonial Days in Old New York. New York, 1896.
——— "Among Friends." New England Magazine, XIX, 18-23. Boston, 1898.
Edes, B. H. H. "Charlestown in the Provincial Period." In Memorial History of Boston, II. Boston, 1882-83.
Edwards, Jonathan. A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God in the Conversion, etc. With a Large Preface by Dr. Watts and Dr. Guyse. 2d ed. London, 1738.
Eggleston, Edward. "Courtship and Marriage in the Colonies." In Stedman and Hutchinson's Library of American Literature, IX, 523-27. New York, 1889.
Ellis, G. E. The Puritan Age in Massachusetts. Boston, 1888.
Essex Institute. Historical Collections. 37 vols. Salem, 1859-1901.
Evans, Hugh Davey. A Treatise on the Christian Doctrine of Marriage. New York, 1870.
Ewell, Marshall D. Cases on Domestic Relations [Leading Cases]. Student's ed. Boston, 1891.
Fernow, B. (editor). The Records of New Amsterdam. 7 vols. New York, 1897.
Fiske, John. Old Virginia and Her Neighbors. 2 vols. Boston, 1897.
Fowler, William C. "Historical Status of the Negro in Connecticut." Dawson's Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries, 3d series, III. Morrisiana, 1874.
Freeman, Frederick. The History of Cape Cod. 2 vols. Boston, 1869.
Free Remarks on Dr. Trumbull's Appeal to the public, relative to the unlawfulness of marrying a wife's sister. Norwich, 1810.
Friends, Philadelphia, Monthly Meeting of. Address on Marriage. Philadelphia, 1868.
Fulton, John. The Laws of Marriage: Containing the Hebrew Law, the Roman Law, the Law of the New Testament, and the Canon Law of the Universal Church, concerning the impediments of marriage and the dissolution of the marriage bond. New York, 1883.
Gale, John B. Affinity No Bar to Marriage. Troy, 1881.
——— Leviticus xviii and Marriage Between Affines. [Troy, 1886.]
Gemmill, J. A. The Practice of the Parliament of Canada upon Bills of Divorce, Including an Historical Sketch of Parliamentary Divorce. Toronto, 1889.
Georgia. Marbury and Crawford's Digest of the Laws, 1755-1800. Savannah, 1802.
——— Acts Passed by the General Assembly of the Colony of, 1755-74. Wormsloe, 1881.
Georgia Historical Society, Collections of. 4 vols. Savannah, 1840-78.
Gerard, James W. The Old Stadt Huys of New Amsterdam. Paper read before the New York Historical Society, June 15, 1875. New York, 1875.
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Goodwin, J. A. The Pilgrim Republic. Boston, 1888.
Goodwin, Maud Wilder. The Colonial Cavalier or Southern Life before the Revolution. Boston, 1895.
Gordon, Thomas F. The History of Pennsylvania ... to 1775. Philadelphia, 1829.
Grant, Anne. Memoirs of an American Lady: with Sketches of Manners and Scenery in America as they existed previous to the Revolution. New York, 1809.
Green, George Washington. A Short History of Rhode Island. Providence, 1877.
Greenleaf, Simon. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence. 16th ed., by J. H. Wigmore. 3 vols. Boston, 1899.
Hallowell, Richard P. The Quaker Invasion of Massachusetts. 2d ed. Boston, 1883.
Hawks, F. L. History of North Carolina. 2 vols. Fayetteville, 1857-58.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Grandfather's Chair. Boston, 1893.
Hazard, Samuel. Annals of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, 1850.
Hening, William Waller (editor). The Statutes at Large: Being a Collection of all the Laws of Virginia from the First Session of the Legislature in the Year 1619. 13 vols. Richmond, 1809-23.
Hepburn, Charles M. The Historical Development of Code Pleading in America and England. Cincinnati, 1897.
Hickox, G. A. Legal Disabilities of Married Women in Connecticut. Connecticut Woman's Suffrage Association, Tracts, No. 1. Hartford, 1871.
Hildreth, Richard. The History of the United States of America. 6 vols. New York, 1882.
Hill, D. G. (editor). The Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, and Intentions of Marriage in the Town of Dedham, 1635-1845. Dedham, 1886.
Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries Concerning the Antiquities, History, and Biography of America. 24 vols. Published in turn at Boston, New York, and Morrisiana, 1857-74.
Hoadly, C. J. See Connecticut Colonial Records.
Hoffman, M. Treatise upon the Estate and Rights of the Corporation of the City of New York as Proprietors. 2 vols. Revised ed. New York, 1862.
Hollister, G. H. The History of Connecticut. 2 vols. Hartford, 1857.
Howard, George Elliott. Local Constitutional History of the United States. Vol. I. Baltimore, 1889.
Howe, Daniel Waite. The Puritan Republic. Indianapolis, [1899].
Hutchinson, Thomas. The History of Massachusetts. From 1628-1774. 3 vols. Vol. I, Salem, 1795; Vol. II, Boston, 1795; Vol. III, London, 1828.
Irving, Washington. Knickerbocker's History of New York. Philadelphia, 1871.
James, Bartlett B. "The Labadist Colony in Maryland." Johns Hopkins University Studies, XVII. Baltimore, 1899.
Janeway, J. J. Unlawful Marriage. New York, 1844.
Jenkins, H. M. Historical Collections Relating to Gynedd (Montgomery County, Pa.). Philadelphia, 1884.
Jordan, Edith Monica. Some Aspects of Marriage and Courtship in Colonial New England. A thesis in the History Department, Stanford University, 1897.
Kalm, Peter. Travels in North America. Trans. by J. R. Forster. Warrington, 1770.
Kent, James. Commentaries on American Law. 14th ed. by J. M. Gould. 4 vols. Boston, 1896.
Kuczynski, Robert René. "The Registration Laws in the Colonies of Massachusetts Bay and New Plymouth." Publications of the American Statistical Association, September, 1900, VII, 65-73. Boston, 1901.
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Lauderdale Peerage Case. Webster, Sidney. Opinion on the Law of Marriage Prevailing in the Colony of New York in 1772. Given May 26, 1885. New York, 1885.
——— Fowler, Robert Ludlow. Letter and Opinion, May 11, 1885. New York, 1885.
——— Seward, Clarence A. Answers to the Interrogatories Propounded by Messrs. John C. Brodie and Sons, of Edinburgh. New York, June, 1885.
Law Reports. "Appeal Cases before the House of Lords and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, also Peerage Cases." X. Containing the Lauderdale Peerage Case. London, 1885.
Lechford, Thomas. "Plain Dealing or News from New England." Ed. by J. H. Trumbull. Library of New England History, IV. Boston, 1867.
——— "Plain Dealing: or Newes from New England." 3 Massachusetts Historical Collections, III, 55 ff.
——— Note-Book Kept by, in Boston, 1638-71. Cambridge, 1885.
Livingston, J. H. A Dissertation on the Marriage of a Man with his Sister-in-Law. New Brunswick, 1816.
Lodge, Henry Cabot. A Short History of the English Colonies in America. New York, 1882.
[MacClelland, Alexander]. The doctrine of incest stated, with an examination of the question whether a man may marry his deceased wife's sister. New York, 1827.
MacCorkle, William A. The Divine Law concerning Marriage. Boston, 1872.
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"Marriage Agreement, A." Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, IV, No. 1. Richmond, 1896.
"Marriage with a Deceased Wife's Sister Unlawful." Church Quarterly Review, XV, 404-30. London, 1887.
Marshall, William. An inquiry concerning the lawfulness of marriage between parties previously related by consanguinity or affinity, etc. New York, 1843.
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Maryland, Laws of. Folio. By Thomas Bacon. Annapolis, 1765.
Maryland, Laws of, made since 1763. Annapolis, 1777, 1787.
Massachusetts. Records of the Court of Assistants. See Noble, John.
——— The Book of the General Lavves and Libertyes concerning the Inhabitants of the Massachusetts, collected out of the records of the General Court, for the several years wherein they were made and established. And now Revised ... 1649. Folio. Cambridge, 1660.
——— The General Laws and Liberties of the Massachusetts Colony: Revised & Re-printed by Order of the General Court Holden at Boston, May 15th, 1672. Edward Rawson, Secr. Folio. Cambridge, 1672.
——— Acts and Laws of her Majesties Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New England, 1692-1714. Folio. Boston, 1714.
——— Acts and Laws of his Majesty's Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New England. Folio. Boston, 1759.
——— Acts and Laws of his Majesty's Province of Massachusetts-Bay in New England, 1692-1765. Folio. Boston, 1769.
——— Acts and Resolves of the Province, VI-VIII, 1692-1780 (I-III of the Appendix). Boston, 1892-96.
Massachusetts Bay, Charters and General Laws of the Colony and Province of. Boston, 1814.
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Massachusetts General Court (1841). House ... No. 7. Report of the special committee, to whom were referred petitions, praying for the repeal of so much of the Revised Statutes, as concerns the intermarriage of persons differing in complexion, etc.
——— House ... No. 28, 1839. Report on sundry petitions of women of various towns respecting distinction of color.
——— House ... No. 46. Report of the joint special committee to whom were referred petitions praying that so much of the Revised Statutes as relates to intermarriage between white persons, and negroes, mulattoes, or Indians, be erased; dated March 6, 1840.
Massachusetts. Legis. docs. Minority report of the committee on judiciary [by N. T. Leonard. Relative to Divorce. Feb. 18, 1843. Also an Act repealing certain laws relating to divorce]. Boston, 1843.
Massachusetts Historical Society, Collections of. 60 vols. Boston, 1792-1899.
——— Proceedings of, 1791-1900. 33 vols. Boston, 1879 ff.
Mather, Cotton. Magnalia Christi Americana: or, the Ecclesiastical History of New England. 2 vols. Hartford, 1820.
Mather, Increase, and others. The Answer of Several Ministers in and near Boston to that Case of Conscience, whether it is Lawful for a Man to Marry his Wives own Sister. Boston, 1695.
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Moore, George H. Notes on the History of Slavery in Massachusetts. New York, 1866.
——— Slave Marriages in Massachusetts. Dawson's Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries, 2d series, V.
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New Hampshire. Acts and Laws passed by the General Court or Assembly of his Majesties Province of New-Hampshire in New-England, 1696-1725. Folio. Boston, 1726.
——— Acts and Laws of his Majesty's Province of New-Hampshire, in New England. Folio. Portsmouth, 1761 and 1771.
New Hampshire Historical Society, Collections of. Vols. I-VIII. Concord, 1824-66.
New Haven Colonial Records. 2 vols. Ed. by C. J. Hoadly. Hartford, 1857-58.
New Jersey, Documents relating to the Colony of, 1631-1776. Ed. by F. W. Ricord and W. Nelson. 19 vols. and Index. Newark, 1880 ff. (Cited from the binder's and half-title as "New Jersey Archives.")
——— The Grants, Concessions, and Original Constitutions of the Province of New Jersey. Ed. by A. Leaming and J. Spicer. 2d ed. Philadelphia, n. d.
——— Acts of the General Assembly of the Province, from the 2d year of Queen Anne to 25 George II. Folio. Woodbridge, 1752.
——— Acts of the General Assembly of the Province, 1702-1776. Ed. by S. Allinson. Folio. Burlington, 1776.
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——— The Colonial Laws of. 5 vols. Albany, 1894.
——— Calendar of Historical Manuscripts. Ed. by O'Callaghan. Part I, "Dutch Manuscripts, 1630-64;" Albany, 1865. Part II, "English Manuscripts, 1664-1776;" Albany, 1866.
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North Carolina, Colonial Records of. 10 vols. Ed. by W. L. Saunders. Raleigh, 1886-90.
——— Iredell-Martin's Public Acts of the General Assembly. Newbern, 1804.
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——— Davis' Revisal (ed. 1773).
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——— A brief Account of the Rise and Progress of the People called Quakers. 12th ed. Manchester, 1834.
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——— Carey and Bioren's Laws of the Commonwealth. 6 vols. Philadelphia, 1803.
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——— Laws and Acts of her Majesties Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations made from the First Settlement in 1636 to 1705. Fac-simile of the MS. and a reprint of the Code of 1705. With an Historical Introduction by S. S. Rider. Providence, 1896.
——— The Charter and the Laws of his Majesties Colony of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations in America, 1719. A fac-simile reprint, with a Bibliographical and Historical Introduction by S. S. Rider. Providence, 1895. Reprint of the Boston ed., 1719.
——— Acts and Laws of his Majesty's Colony of Rhode-Island, and Providence Plantations in America. Folio. Newport, 1730, 1745, 1752, and 1767.
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——— Acts and Laws of the English Colony of Rhode-Island and Providence-Plantations ... passed since the Revision in June, 1767. Folio. Newport, 1772. Fac-simile reprint issued by Harry Gregory. Providence, 1893.
——— Records of the Colony of, 1636-1782. 10 vols. Edited by J. R. Bartlett. Providence, 1856-65.
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——— "Letter-Book." Ibid., 6th series, I, II. Boston, 1886.
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