Note 654 — Chapter XII · OBLIGATORY CIVIL MARRIAGE IN THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES (continued 2)
Reading edition
Complaints of clandestine marriages may be found in the New Hampshire records: see Provincial Papers, IV, 832; New Hamp. Hist. Coll., VIII, 117, 118. There is an unsettled case of alleged clandestine marriage in the MSS. Early Court Files of Suffolk (March, 1699-1700), Nos. 4590, 4663.