A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 2 of 3Howard, George Elliott
History
A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 2 of 3
Howard, George Elliott
Families; Marriage -- History
_Acts and Laws_ (Newport, 1730); with Rider's facsimile
reprint, entitled _Supplementary Pages to the Digest of 1730_
(Providence, [1898]); the original folio editions of the _Acts
and Laws_ dated respectively 1745, 1752, 1767 (Newport); and
Gregory's facsimile reprint of the compilation of 1772, entitled
_Acts and Laws ... passed since the Revision in June 1767_
(Providence, 1893). The Plymouth codes are printed in Vol. XI of
the _Colonial Records_ of that colony; and they are given in
convenient form in Brigham's _Compact, with the Charter and Laws
of New Plymouth_ (Boston, 1836).
Original material has also been gleaned from the _Collections_
(Boston, 1806-97) and the _Proceedings_ of the Massachusetts
Historical Society (Boston, 1879 ff.); Bradford's _History of
Plymouth Plantation_ (Boston, 1856); Winthrop's _History of
New England_, 1630-49 (Boston, 1853); Hutchinson's _History
of Massachusetts_, 1628-1774 (Vol. I, Salem, 1795; Vol.
II, Boston, 1795; Vol. III, London, 1828); Cotton Mather's
_Magnalia Christi Americana_ (Hartford, 1820); Increase Mather's
_Answer of Several Ministers_ (Boston, 1695), on marriage with
wife's sister; _The Andros Tracts_ (Boston, 1868-74); Young's
_Chronicles of the Pilgrims_, 1602-25 (2d ed., Boston, 1844);
_Historical Collections of the Essex Institute_ (Salem, 1896);
Lechford's _Note-Book_, 1638-71 (Cambridge, 1885), _idem_,
_Plain Dealing_ (Boston, 1867); reprinted also in 3 _Mass. Hist.
Soc. Collections_, III; Dunton's _Life and Errors_ (Westminster,
1818); his _Letters from New-England_ (Prince Society, Boston,
1867); the "Town Records of Boston," 1634-1777; and the "Town
Records of Dorchester," both in the _Reports of the Boston
Record Commission_; "Town Records of Salem," 1634-59, in Vol.
IX of _Hist. Coll. Essex Inst._; especially Sewall's "Diary,"
in 5 _Mass. Hist. Coll._, V, VI, VII (Boston, 1878-80); and his
"Letter-Book," in 6 _Mass. Hist. Coll._, I, II (Boston, 1886),
both of which afford a wealth of illustration for almost every
phase of wedding and other social customs.
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