Note 702 — Chapter XII · OBLIGATORY CIVIL MARRIAGE IN THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES (continued 2)

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.