Note 515 — Chapter XII · OBLIGATORY CIVIL MARRIAGE IN THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES
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In 1643-44, at a quarter court held in Boston, "James Brittanie being found guilty of adultery with Mary Latham, he was condemned to death. Mary Latham being found guilty of adultery with James Brittanie, she was condemned to death."—Record of the Court of Assistants of Mass. Bay Colony, 1641-44 (from the Barlow MS.) in Whitmore's Bibliographical Sketch of the Laws of Mass., xlii. According to Winthrop, Hist. of New England, II, 157-59, these persons were executed.