Note 435 — Chapter XII · OBLIGATORY CIVIL MARRIAGE IN THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES

The Book of General Laws of 1673 (Hartford, 1865), 46. The Acts and Laws (New London, 1715), 75, require three publications or eight days' posting; while by the Acts and Laws (New Haven, 1769), 144-47, intentions are to be announced only eight days before the celebration "in some public Meeting or Congregation on the Lord's Day, or on some public Fast, Thanksgiving, or Lecture Day, in the Town, Parish, or Society where the Parties or either of them do ordinarily reside," or else posted eight days, as before.