Note 580 — Chapter XII · OBLIGATORY CIVIL MARRIAGE IN THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES
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"If any man commit fornication with a single woman, they shall be punished, either by enjoining marriage, or fine, or corporal punishment, or all or any of these," as the court may determine: Whitmore, Col. Laws of Mass. (1660-72), 153. Later disfranchisement, in the case of a freeman, was added: ibid., 231. See also Whitmore, op. cit. (1672-86), 54, 208; Conn. Col. Rec., I, 527; New Haven Col. Rec., II, 590; Plym. Col. Rec., XI, 12, 46, 95, 172.