[967] Ibid., 32.
[968] Ibid., 89; III, 277.
[969] Ibid., III, 350; IV, i, 190.
[970] Ibid., IV, ii, 8.
[971] Mary complained of her husband's "deficjency": ibid., IV, ii, 91.
[972] Ibid., IV, ii, 465.
[973] Ibid., V. 188.
[974] MSS. Early Court Files of Suffolk, No. 1807. This document begins: "At a Generall Court." The case is also in Mass. Col. Rec., V, 248, 249.
[975] The divorce of James Skiffe was also granted "Att a Generall Court held vpon the Vineyard": Plym. Col. Rec., V, 33. See subsection b) below.
[976] These are the cases of Samuel Freeman (before 1656) and Philip Wharton (before 1678). The first is mentioned in the Halsall case. Cf. Whitmore, Col. Laws of Mass. (1660-72), 100, note, who says: "Samuel Freeman had a wife Apphia, and it has been thought that his widow married Gov. Thomas Prence of Plymouth. It has now been suggested that she was divorced, and married a second time while Freeman stayed in England, but this surmise needs examination." The second case is inferred from the following: "At a Circuit Court at Boston, Apr. 30, 1678, Philip Wharton and Mary Gridley, formerly his wife, bound over to answer for disorderly and offensive cohabiting together, having sued out a divorce. They owned they lived together. Bonds for good behavior until next court, especially to refrain from each other's company."—MSS. Records of the County Court of Suffolk, 506. Evidently it was common to resume the maiden name: cf. the Nailer and Lyndon cases.