Note 691 — Chapter XII · OBLIGATORY CIVIL MARRIAGE IN THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES (continued 2)

For an interesting discussion of this point see Bliss's chapter on "Rum and Slavery," Side-Glimpses from the Col. Meeting-House, 12 ff.; and Weeden, Ecc. and Soc. Hist., II, 449-72. Such men as Peter Faneuil and Thomas Amory, of Boston, were "deep" in the rum and slavery business: Bliss, op. cit., 15.