[864] Kalm, Travels in North America (translated by John Reinhold Forster, Warrington, 1770), I, 259-62; see also the extract in Hart, Source-Book of American History, 128-30; and for the dates ibid., 100.
[865] See chap x, sec. iii, above.
[866] Earle, Col. Days in Old New York, 58, 59.
[867] Munsell's Annals of Albany, II, 182.
[868] For these customs and others see Earle, op. cit., 60 ff.; and compare Vanderbilt, Social Customs of Flatbush, 149 ff.; Watson, Annals and Occurrences of New York City and State, 211-17 (written in 1828 regarding customs twelve years before the Revolution); Ostrander, History of the City of Brooklyn and King's County, I, 79-83; New York Hist. Coll., Fund Series, 1880, XIII, 355, where Rev. John Sharpe tells us that negroes are married merely by mutual consent without blessing of the church; and ibid., Second Series, II, 347-49, where courtship among the New York Indians is described.
[869] See sec. ii, b) below.
[870] Hannah Thompson, Letters: in Pa. Mag. of Hist. and Biol., XIV, 35.
[871] Duke of Yorke's Book of Laws, 14, 15; cf. Weise, Hist. of Albany, 195, 196.
[872] Grant, Memoirs of an American Lady, 48; quoted also by Earle, op. cit., 55, 56.
[873] See Cumming's "Historical Note," Col. Laws of N. Y., I, xix. Cumming cites the note of Robert Ludlow Fowler to Fac Simile of the Laws and Acts of the General Assembly ... as printed and sold by William Bradford, 1694, 78 ff.