A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 2 of 3

Note 434 — Chapter XII · OBLIGATORY CIVIL MARRIAGE IN THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES

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Conn. Col. Rec., I, 47, 48 (1640), 540; Trumbull, True Blue Laws, 106. Compare The Code of 1650 (Hartford, 1836), 67, 68.

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