Note 768 — Chapter XIII · ECCLESIASTICAL RITES AND THE RISE OF CIVIL MARRIAGE IN THE SOUTHERN COLONIES
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"Records of the Friends Monthly Meeting in Pasquotank Precinct": in N. C. Col. Rec., I, 688. There is a similar entry in 1711: ibid., 813. Two years earlier we find a "precinct" court—about the only part of the machinery of the "Fundamental Constitutions" which was ever made use of (Howard, Local Const. Hist., I, 129)—sentencing for adultery: "Ordered that Ellinor Mearle be punished by receiving Ten Stripes on her Back well laid & pay cost also Ex[=o]."—Records of Perquiman's Precinct Court, in N. C. Col. Rec., I, 626 (1705).