Note 473 — Chapter XII · OBLIGATORY CIVIL MARRIAGE IN THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES
Reading edition
Dunton's Life and Errors (Westminster, 1818), I, 102, referring to Boston in 1686. In Dunton's Letters from New-England (ed. by Whitmore for the Prince Society, Boston, 1867), 99, where this passage appears in a modified form, the age of a "thornback" is reduced to twenty-six years. The paragraph is also quoted by Weeden, op. cit., I, 299, 300; and Earle, op. cit., 38, 39.