The Blue Laws of New Haven Colony, usually called Blue Laws of Connecticut; Quaker Laws of Plymouth And Massachusetts; Blue Laws of New York, Maryland, Virginia, and South Carolina...
Hartford: Case, Tiffant & Co., 1838. First edition. Hardcover. Firts edition. In original green cloth with floral blimdstamped design, spine lettered in gilt reading "Blue Laws/ Quaker Laws and Witchcraft/ 1635". 336 pp. A tight example, spine faded but gilt spine stamping bright. Occasional light foxing. The first settlers of the New Haven and Connecticut colonies, after arriving in 1638, :"found themselves destitute of any laws as rules of action to govern their small but intrepid band...organized and constituted a General Court, in 1839...and enacted such laws as the exigencies of the occasion demanded...". This volume consists of collections of laws. commonly known as "blue laws' for those colonies as well as for other colonies, laws punishing Quakers, summaries of the trial of Roger Williams in 1635 (resulting in his banishment from Massachusetts Bay Colony and enabling him to found Providence Plantation colony and Rhode Island); the Saybrook Platform of 1708; capital punishment laws of Connecticut (1642) and New Plymouth; and a final full chapter dealing with witchcraft and containing details of various witchcraft trials. Very Good. Item #E25902
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