Notes from Duane Hamilton Hurd - Marriage practices before and after 1693 in Connecticut
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Notes from Duane Hamilton Hurd - Marriage practices before and after 1693 in Connecticut


Pencil on lined paper
3.25 in H X 6.75 in W
Coll. 003 Fold. 060 Doc. 007  Notes from Duane Hamilton Hurd - Marriage practices before and after 1693 in Connecticut
Notes taken from page 665 of Duane Hamilton Hurd's History of New London county, Connecticut, with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men. Written in pencil on a scrap of lined paper. Explains that prior to 1693, magistrates, not ministers, typically performed marriages in Connecticut as the Puritan colonists wished to distance themselves from the Church of England. No notes on back.
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