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
For the history of bundling, besides the mention in Valentine's
_Manual_, should be consulted the case of Seger _v._ Slingerland
in Caine's _Reports_, II (New York and Albany, 1860), where the
custom was judicially considered; also Lamb, _History of the
City of New York_ (New York and Chicago, 1877); and especially
Stiles, _Bundling_ (Albany, 1871). Stiles, _History of the
City of Brooklyn_ (Brooklyn, 1867-70), gives an account of the
restrictions put on the remarriage of widows in the old Dutch
wills; and there are some notices of marriage law and customs in
Grant, _Memoirs of an American Lady_ (New York, 1809); Weise,
_History of the City of Albany_ (Albany, 1884); Watson, _Annals
and Occurrences of New York City and State_ (Philadelphia,
1846); Vanderbilt, _Social History of Flatbush_ (New York, 1882;
new ed., 1899); Ostrander, _History of the City of Brooklyn
and King's County_ (Brooklyn, 1894); Gerard, _The Old Stadt
Huys of New Amsterdam_ (New York, 1875); Hazard, _Annals of
Pennsylvania_ (Philadelphia, 1850); and especially Earle's
_Colonial Days in Old New York_ (New York, 1896). In 1786 a
brief account of wedding customs in New York state was given by
Hannah Thompson, "Letters," in _Pa. Mag. of Hist. and Biog._,
XIV (Philadelphia, 1890); and in 1748 the governor's lucrative
monopoly of marriage-license fees is described by the Swedish
botanist Kalm, _Travels in North America_ (Warrington, 1770):
see Hart, _Source-Book of American History_ (New York, 1899),
extract 50. Cook, "The Marriage Celebration in the Colonies,"
_Atlantic_, LXI (Boston, 1888), discusses the subject for the
middle provinces; and for the historical background Brodhead,
_History of the State of New York_ (New York, 1853-71);
O'Callaghan, _History of New Netherland_ (2d ed., New York,
1855); Friedberg, _Eheschliessung_ (Leipzig, 1865); and his
_Geschichte der Civilehe_ (Hamburg, 1877), have been of most
service.
For New Jersey, Leaming and Spicer, _Grants, Concessions,
and Original Constitutions_ (2d ed., Philadelphia, 1881), is
of first-rate importance. This collection is supplemented by
the documents in _New Jersey Archives_ (Newark, 1880-86); and
Smith, _History of the Colony of Nova-Caesaria or New Jersey_
(Burlington, 1765; reprint, 1877); while the law of 1719 may
be found in _Acts of the General Assembly_ (Woodbridge, 1752);
or in Allinson, _Acts of the General Assembly, 1702-1776_
(Burlington, 1776).
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