Note 232 — Chapter II
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The Boston ministers, Mather, Wadsworth, and Colman, issued a flying sheet in 1719, A Testimony against Evil Customs, in which they regretted that ordinations, weddings, trainings, and huskings were made the occasion of unseemly merriment, and that lectures were not more generally attended. (Harv. Coll. lib., 10396.92.) Lodge (Short Hist. Eng. Colonies, 463) indicates the change which converted the simple burial of the early colonists to an ostentatious display in the provincial period.