A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 2 of 3

by George Elliott Howard

[1102] Quoted from Earle, op. cit., 46, 47.

[1103] See Chancellor Kent, in Williamson v. Williamson, 1 Johnson, Chancery Rep., 488, 491, 492; and Chancellor Walworth's decisions in Wood v. Wood, 2 Paige, Chancery Rep., 108, 111; North v. North, 1 Barbour, Chancery Rep., 241, 245: 43 Am. Decisions, 778; and Burr v. Burr, 10 Paige, Chancery Rep., 20, 35. Cf. Bishop, Mar., Div., and Sep., I, §§ 132, 133, notes; and Story, Commentaries, I, 80, 81.

[1104] Bishop, op. cit., I, § 109.

[1105] Duke of Yorke's Book of Laws: in Linn, Charter and Laws, 63.

[1106] Kent, Commentaries, II, 97, 98.

[1107] Letter of Nov. 24, 1773: O'Callaghan, Doc. Rel. to Col. Hist., N. Y., VIII, 402; also in New Jersey Archives, X, 411, 412.

[1108] Colden, Letters on Smith's History of New York: in Coll. N. Y. Hist. Soc., Fund Series, I, 1868, 187.

[1109] New York Col. MSS., XXV, 84. Here is the document in full, though some phrases are hard to decipher:

"To the Right Honr^ble Maij Edmo^nd Andross, Gouev^nr Gen^ll of all his Highnes Territories in America:

"The Humble Petiton of Richard Wood: