Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1861-09-05
rhn Connecticut BIne Lnws.
When these Free States were colonies,
Unto the mother nation,
And in Connecticut the good
OLD Blue Laws were in fashion.

And in Connecticut the good
Old Blue Laws were in fashion.
The following extracts from the laws
ordained by the people Of New Haven,
previous to their incorporation with the
Saybrook and Hartford colonies, afford
an idea of the strange character OF their
prohibitions. AS the substance only is
given in the transcription, the language
is necessarily modernzed.
No quaker or dissenter from the cstab-
lshed worship of the dominion shall be
allowed to give vote for the election of
magistrate or any officer.
No food or lodging shall be afforded to
Quaker, Adamite or hereto.
Ii any person turns Quaker, he shall be
banished, and not suffered to return upon
the pain Of death.
No Priest shall abide in the dominion;
he shall be banished, and suffer death on
his return. Priests may be seized by any
one without a warrant
no man to cross river but with an au-
thorizod ferryman.
No one shall run on the Sabbath day,
or walk in his garden, or elsewhere, ex-
cept reverently to and from meeting.
No ono shall travel, cook victuals,
make beds, sweep house, cut hair, or
shave on the Sabbath day.
No woman shall kiss her child on the
Sabbath or fasting day.
The Sabbath shall begin at sunset on
Saturday.
To pick an car Of corn in neighbor's
garden shall be deemed theft
A person accused of trespass in the
night shall be judged guilty, unless he
clears himself by oath.
When it appears that an accused has
confederates. and he refuses to discover
them, he may be raclled.
No one shall buy or sell lands without
permission of the sclectman.
A drunkard shall have a master appoint
ell by the selectmen, who are to dcbar him
the liberty of buying and selling.
Whosoever publishes lie to the pref
udice of his neighbor shall sit in the stocks
and be whipped fifteen stripes.
No minister shall teach school.
Man stealcrs shall suffer death.
Whoever wears clothes trimmed with
gold, or bone lace, above two shillings 10y
the yard, shall be presented by the grand
Jurors, and the selectmen, shall tax the
offenders a E300 estate
a debtor in prison, swearing he has ne
estate, shall be let out and sold to make
satisfaction.
Whoever sets fire in the woods, and
burns a house, shall suffer death and
persons suspected Of this crime shall be
imprisoned without benefit ofjail.
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domain shall pay fine of 60.
No one shall read common prayer, keep
Christmas or saints days, make mincc
pies, dance, play cards, or play on any
instrument of music, except the drum,
trumpet and .ewsharp.
No gospel minister shall join in mar
riage the magistrates only shall JOIN IN
marriage, as they only may do it with
much less scan al to Christ's Church.
When parents refuse their children
convenient marriages, the magistrates
shall determine the point
The selectmen, on finding children ig
norant, may take them away from thci
parents, and put them in better hands, II
the expense of the parents.
A man that strikes his wife shall b
punished as the Court directs.
a wife shall be deemed good evidenc
against her husband.
Married persons must live together o
be imprisoned.
No man shall court maid in pcrso
or by letter, without first obtaining til
consent of her parents; Ct penalty 70
the first ollence-GlO for the second
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the pleasure of tho court.
Every male shall have his hair cut ac
cordingto cap.