Note 672 — Chapter XII · OBLIGATORY CIVIL MARRIAGE IN THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES (continued 2)
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Sewall's Diary, in 5 Mass. Hist. Coll., V, 354. For the case see Noble's Recs. of the Court of Assistants, I, 361. Samuel Newton, of Marlborough, married his uncle's widow and had two children by her. This marriage was judged void "by the word of God, as also by the law of England": ibid., 342. Cf. Cowley, Our Divorce Courts, 30, 31.