Note 610 — Chapter XII · OBLIGATORY CIVIL MARRIAGE IN THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES (continued 2)
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Thus in 1686 John Row was sentenced for "committing folly with Martha Beale, then servant to his father, & publishing himself in marriage to her and now denying to accomplish the marriage."—MSS. Records of the County Court of Middlesex, IV, 218. For other cases of this kind see MSS. Records of the Superior Court of Judicature (1730-31), fol. 1; ibid. (1745-46), fol. 253; MSS. Early Court Files of Suffolk (Nov. 19, 1663), No. 600.