Note 369 — Chapter XII · OBLIGATORY CIVIL MARRIAGE IN THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES

The evidence for the influence of Holland upon English and American institutions is presented in Campbell, The Puritan in Holland, England, and America (New York, 1892), an able and timely work, calling attention to many facts strangely neglected by previous writers, but too sweeping in its general conclusion that American law and institutions, in their essential characteristics, are not Anglo-Saxon, but Dutch. For the interrelations of the Puritans in England and Holland see especially op. cit., I, 485 ff.; II, 44 ff.