Note 417 — Chapter XII · OBLIGATORY CIVIL MARRIAGE IN THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES
Reading edition
Lodge, Short History, 462, 463; cf. Sanford, Hist. of Conn., 125. Bailey, Hist. Sketches of Andover, 74-78, gives interesting details as to weddings and marriage settlements; and Brooks, Olden Time Series: Days of the Spinning-Wheel, 32, 33, reprints specimens of marriage notices taken from newspapers of the eighteenth century. On these festivities, advertisements, and settlements see also Earle, Customs and Fashions, 60-77.