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A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 2 of 3

Note 490 — Chapter XII · OBLIGATORY CIVIL MARRIAGE IN THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES

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Whitmore, Col. Laws of Mass. (1660-72), 129; New Haven Col. Rec., II, 578, and Trumbull, Blue Laws, 201; Conn. Col. Rec., I, 515, and Trumbull, op. cit., 69; New Hamp. Hist. Coll., VIII, 12; Shirley, Early Jurisprudence of N. H., 311; Andros Tracts, III, 13. Cf. a similar law for early New York: Duke of Yorke's Laws, 15.

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