Note 544 — Chapter XII · OBLIGATORY CIVIL MARRIAGE IN THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES
Reading edition
This case is in MSS. Records of the Superior Court of Judicature (1740-42), fol. 264. From the Suffolk Files (360-66, 557) Davis, The Law of Adultery, 13, 14, quotes the warrant of the sheriff for the execution; and also a notice of the case from the Boston Weekly News-Letter of Thursday, Feb. 10, 1743, stating that the daughter Elizabeth, with whom the crime was committed, had absconded.