A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 2 of 3

by George Elliott Howard

[456] Earle, Customs and Fashions, 36.

[457] Weeden, Ecc. and Soc. Hist. of N. E., I, 230; Conn. Col. Rec., I, 8.

[458] Weeden, loc. cit.; Stiles, Windsor, 54.

[459] Earle, Customs and Fashions, 37.

[460] Acts and Laws (1715), 60; see also Conn. Col. Rec., I, 538; Trumbull, Blue Laws, 104.

[461] In 1682: Weeden, op. cit., I, 272; Munro, Bristol, R. I., 115.

[462] New Haven Col. Rec., II, 608; Trumbull, op. cit., 258.

[463] Plym. Col. Rec., XI, 223.

[464] Whitmore, Colonial Laws of Mass. (1672-86), 236, 237.

[465] Ibid. (1660-72), 136.