Note 1091 — Chapter XV · DIVORCE IN THE AMERICAN COLONIES
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Case of elopement with adultery, Dec. 15, 1661: Gerard, The Old Stadt Huys, 386, 387; also in O'Callaghan, op. cit., XII, 359, where we read: "This fine priest demanded with great circumstantiality in the above-mentioned meeting a decree of divorce on account of his wife's flight and received the same, subject to your Honors' approval, on the 15th of December" (letter from Beeckman to Stuyvesant and others, dated at Altona, South River, Feb. 1, 1662).