Note 856 — Chapter XIV · OPTIONAL CIVIL OR ECCLESIASTICAL MARRIAGE IN THE MIDDLE COLONIES

"The original of this act is not in the office of the Secretary of State. This copy was made from the manuscript compilation of the 'Dongan laws' formerly in the office of the Secretary of State, but now in the New York State Library. The date of its passage, as October 23, 1684, is given by E. B. O'Callaghan, in Hist. Int. to Journals of the Legislative Council of N. Y., p. 12."—Cumming's note to the act, Col. Laws of N. Y., I, 150.