[428] See the acts of 1692 and 1696: Acts and Resolves, I, 61, 209, 210. By the former statute ministers and justices are required to make a quarterly report of marriages solemnized by them to the clerk of the sessions of the peace. The act of 1716, referred to in Sewall's Diary, provides that the town clerk shall send in to the same officer an annual transcript of marriages recorded by him. "The volume of such returns for Suffolk County has very recently (written 1882) been transferred to the custody of the city registrar of Boston."—Sewall's Diary, in 5 Mass. Hist. Coll., VII, 112, and the note by the editors.
[429] Intentions of marriage were to be published three times, or else on fourteen days' written notice: "General Lawes and Liberties of New Hamp.," Coll. New Hamp. Hist. Soc., VIII, 23. See also the Cutt Code, Provincial Papers, I, 396, 397.
[430] Doyle, English Colonies, II, 201 ff.; Lodge, Short Hist., 397 ff.; Hildreth, Hist. of U. S., I, 200; Bancroft, Hist. of U. S., I, 217, 218, 262.
[431] Shirley, "Early Jurisprudence of New Hampshire," Procds. New Hamp. Hist. Soc. (1876-84), 309.
[432] Belknap, Hist. of New Hampshire, III, 211.
[433] Provincial Papers, IV, 832 (1737).
[434] Conn. Col. Rec., I, 47, 48 (1640), 540; Trumbull, True Blue Laws, 106. Compare The Code of 1650 (Hartford, 1836), 67, 68.
[435] The Book of General Laws of 1673 (Hartford, 1865), 46. The Acts and Laws (New London, 1715), 75, require three publications or eight days' posting; while by the Acts and Laws (New Haven, 1769), 144-47, intentions are to be announced only eight days before the celebration "in some public Meeting or Congregation on the Lord's Day, or on some public Fast, Thanksgiving, or Lecture Day, in the Town, Parish, or Society where the Parties or either of them do ordinarily reside," or else posted eight days, as before.
[436] For the law of registration see Conn. Col. Rec., I, 48, 105, 106, 551; Trumbull, op. cit., 123.
[437] New Haven Col. Rec., II, 599, 600, 607; Trumbull, op. cit., 241, 242, 255; Atwater, Hist. of New Haven Colony, 363.