Note 1044 — Chapter XV · DIVORCE IN THE AMERICAN COLONIES
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R. I. Col. Rec., I, 312 (1655). "And if any persons in this Colonie," continues the order, "shall part themselves and marrie again without ye authoritie of ye Court of Commissioners, or be convicted of carnal copulation with any other [bigamy], they shall be punished as in case of adulterie."—Ibid., 312.