Note 578 — Chapter XII · OBLIGATORY CIVIL MARRIAGE IN THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES
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In addition the records of the court of assistants for the early period contain six cases, in each instance the husband alone being punished; two cases in 1635, one in 1637, one in 1639, two in 1640: Mass. Col. Rec., I, 163, 193, 269, 296, 297; and three cases where both husband and wife were fined, condemned to stand in the market place, or to confess on Lecture Day: Rec. of the Court of Assistants, 1641-1643/44, in Whitmore, Bib. Sketch, xxxi, xxxiii, xxxvii.