[699] Moore, op. cit., 55.
[700] Sewall, The Selling of Joseph: in 5 Mass. Hist. Coll., VI, 17, 18.
[701] Belknap's answer to Tucker's Queries: in 1 Mass. Hist. Coll., IV, 200; cf. Moore, Notes on Hist. of Slavery in Mass., 57.
[702] Moore, Slave Marriages in Mass.: Dawson's Hist. Mag., 2d series, V, 136, reprinting Hobart's Serious Address to the Episcopal Separation in New England (1748), 77, 78; and quoting in reply Dr. John Beach's Calm and Dispassionate Vindication, 39, who in logic characteristic of the age argues in "substance that as a Slave was capable of being made free, and so of having property in a large estate, there was no profaneness" in the use of the phrase mentioned.
[703] "And finally," continues the minister, "I exhort & charge you to beware lest you give place to the Devil, so as to take Occasion from the Licence now given you, to be lifted up with Pride, and thereby fall under the Displeasure, not of Man only, but of God also; for, it is written, that God resisteth the Proud, but he giveth Grace to the humble.
"I shall now conclude wth Prayer for you, that you may become good Christians, and that you may be enabled to conduct as such; and in particr, that you may have Grace to behave suitably towards each Other, as also dutifully towards your Masters & Mistresses, not wth Eye-Service, as Men-pleasers, but as ye servts of Chrt, doing ye will of God from ye heart." Published by Moore, Slave Marriages in Mass.: in Dawson's Hist. Mag., 2d series, V, 137.
[704] Hening, Statutes, I, 156, 157. See also the act of 8 Chas. I., expressed in about the same terms, ibid., 181.
[705] Ibid., 158, 183.
[706] Ibid., 433. By the act of 1646 the penalty for celebration without license or banns was 1,000 pounds of tobacco: ibid., 332.
[707] Ibid., II, 49-51. By the law of 1788 the issue of even "incestuous" marriages are made legitimate: ibid., XII, 689.