Note 779 — Chapter XIII · ECCLESIASTICAL RITES AND THE RISE OF CIVIL MARRIAGE IN THE SOUTHERN COLONIES
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Iredell-Martin, op. cit., I, 157, 158; Davis, Revisal (ed. 1773), 350.
"It was proposed to limit this law to three years, which was not done. It provided for no Dissenters except Presbyterians. But it seems that the original intention was to cover the case of all Dissenters. The second section probably read 'dissenting or of the dissenting Presbyterian clergy.' The clause in italics was stricken out and the phrase 'dissenting or Presbyterian clergy' took its place, thus excluding all Dissenters except Presbyterians."—Weeks, op. cit., 245 n. 2; cf. N. C. Col. Rec., VII, 411, 329, 331.