Note 806 — Chapter XIV · OPTIONAL CIVIL OR ECCLESIASTICAL MARRIAGE IN THE MIDDLE COLONIES
Reading edition
O'Callaghan, Laws and Ordinances, 152, 153. For this ordinance see also New York Colonial MSS., XII, 40; and compare ibid., IV, 456; V, 197; VIII, 647. Consult Webster, Opinion on the Law of Marriage prevailing in the Colony of N. Y., 1772, 19, 20 (Lauderdale Peerage Case), who discusses these ordinances.