Note 618 — Chapter XII · OBLIGATORY CIVIL MARRIAGE IN THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES (continued 2)
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"Her father died in six years, leaving his fortune, which was large for that time, to his daughter and his widow. It was practically one estate for the mother lived in the most affectionate intimacy in Judge Sewall's family."—Weeden, Ecc. and Soc. Hist. of N. E., I, 420; cf. Hawthorne, Grandfather's Chair (Boston, 1893), chap. vi, 459-64.