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The Code of 1650, Being a
Compilation of the Earliest Laws and Orders of the General Court of Connecticut: Also, the Constitution, or Civil Compact, Entered Into and Adopted by the Towns of Windsor, Hartford, and Wethersfield in 1638–9; to which is added some extracts from the laws and judicial
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The True-Blue Laws of
Connecticut and New Haven and the False Blue-Laws Invented by the Rev. Samuel Peters, to which are added specimens of the laws and judicial proceedings of other colonies and some blue-laws of England in the reign of James
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The True-blue Laws of
Connecticut and New Haven and the False Blue-laws Invented by the Rev. Samuel Peters, to which are Added Specimens of the Laws and Judicial Proceedings of Other Colonies and Some Blue-laws of England in the Reign of James
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No man shall court a maid in person, or by letter, without first obtaining consent of her parents: £5 penalty for the first offence; £10 for the second; and, for the third, imprisonment during the pleasure of the
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Every rateable person, who refuses to pay his proportion to the support of the
Minister of the town or parish, shall be fined by the Court £2, and £4 every quarter, until he or she pay the rate to the Minister.
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No man shall hold any office, who is not sound in the faith, and faithful to this
Dominion; and whoever gives a vote to such a person, shall pay a fine of £1; for a second offence, he shall be disfranchised.
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History and
Antiquities of New Haven, Conn: From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, with Biographical Sketches and Statistical Information of the Public Institutions, &c., &c
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Whoever wears clothes trimmed with gold, silver, or bone lace, above two shillings by the yard, shall be presented by the grand jurors, and the selectmen shall tax the offender at £300 estate.
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No one shall read Common-Prayer, keep
Christmas or saints-days, make minced pies, dance, play cards, or play on any instrument of music, except the drum, trumpet, and the jaw harp.
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Whoever sets a fire in the woods, and it burns a house, shall suffer death; and persons suspected of this crime shall be imprisoned, without benefit of bail.
353:, for they were all sanctified with excommunication, confiscation, fines, banishment, whippings, cutting off the ears, burning the tongue, and death."
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No gospel
Minister shall join people in marriage; the magistrates only shall join in marriage, as they may do it with less scandal to Christ's Church.
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No quaker or dissenter from the established worship of this
Dominion shall be allowed to give a vote for the election of Magistrates, or any officer.
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The selectmen, on finding children ignorant, may take them away from their parents, and put them into better hands, at the expense of their parents.
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Peters was an Anglican priest hostile to the cause of American independence and had been forced to flee to London in late 1774, shortly before the
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No one shall be a freeman, or give a vote, unless he be converted, and a member in full communion of one of the Churches allowed in this Dominion.
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No Priest shall abide in this Dominion: he shall be banished, and suffer death on his return. Priests may be seized by any one without a warrant.
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The Governor shall have only a single vote in determining any question; except a casting vote, when the Assembly may be equally divided.
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A man that strikes his wife shall pay a fine of £10; a woman that strikes her husband shall be punished as the Court directs.
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Each freeman shall swear by the blessed God to bear true allegiance to this Dominion, and that Jesus Christ is the only King.
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rebellion in America are pointed out; together with the particular part taken by the people of Connecticut in its promotion
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The Governor and Magistrates convened in general Assembly, are the supreme power under God of this independent Dominion.
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Whoever says there is power and jurisdiction above and over this Dominion, shall suffer death and loss of property.
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Whoever publishes a lie to the prejudice of his neighbor, shall sit in the stocks, or be whipped fifteen stripes.
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A person accused of trespass in the night shall be judged guilty, unless he clear himself by his oath.
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colony, listed in a history of Connecticut that was published in 1781 in London by the Reverend
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to discredit America as backwards and fanatical, and in 1781 published them in a book called
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who had been forced to leave America. Peters' book popularized the term "
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Whoever brings cards or dice into this dominion shall pay a fine of £5.
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Married persons must live together, or be imprisoned.
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