Note 898 — Chapter XIV · OPTIONAL CIVIL OR ECCLESIASTICAL MARRIAGE IN THE MIDDLE COLONIES
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A "Bill for the General Laws of the Province of East New Jersey," March, 1682/83: Leaming and Spicer, op. cit., 236. By this act marriage within the degrees there named is declared void: ibid., 243.
The "Fundamental Constitutions" had provided that there should be a "register in each county for births, marriages, burials, and servants, where their names, times, wages, and days of payment" should be recorded: Leaming and Spicer, op. cit., 163; and already in 1675, under the first proprietors, the "clerk of each town within this Province," in a book provided by the town, is to record "all births, marriages, and deaths" in his district: ibid., 100.