Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-04-05
THE CONNECTICUT Blue
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When these Fre1 States were colonies,
Cnto the mother nation,
And in Connecticut the good
Old Blue Laws were in fashion.

The following extracts from the laws or
dained by the people of New Haven, Previ-
GUS 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 transcript
ton, the language is necessarily modernized.
No Quaker or dissenter from the establish
ed worship of the dominion shall be allowed
to give a vote for the election Of magistrate
or any officer.
No food or lodging shall be afforded to
Quaker, Adamite or heretie.
If any person turns Quaker, he shall be
banished, and uot suffered to return upon the
pain of death.
No Priest shall abide in the dominion he
shall be oanished, and suffer death on his re-
turn. Priests may be seized by any one
without a warrant.
No man to cross a river but with an au-
thorized ferryman.
No one shall run on the Sabbath day, or
walk in his garden, or elsewhere, except rev
erently to and from meeting.
No one shall travel, cook vituals, make
beds, sweep house, cut hair, or shave on the
Sabbath day.
No woman shall kiss her child on the Sab
bath or fasting day.
The Sabbath shall begin at sunset on Sat
urlay.
To pick an ear of corn in a neighbor's gar
den shall be deemed theft.
A person accused of trespaSs in the night
shall be judged guilty, unless he clears him
self by oath.
- hat an haz
fe,lcrates and he refuses to discover them, he
\ may be racked.
No one shall buy or sell lands without the
permission of the Seectmen.
! a druukard shall have master appointed
bv the se.ectmen, who are to debar hin the
liberty of buying and selling.
| Whosoever publishes lie to the prejudice
of his neighbor shall sit in the stocks aud be
whipped fifteen stripes.
No minister shall keep school.
| Men-stealers shall suffer death.
! Whoever wears clothes trimmed with gold,
er bone lace, above two shilings by the yard,
! shall be presented by the grand jurors, and
the selectmer shall tax the offenders at $500
/ estate.
A dehtcr in prison, swearing he has no es-
tate, Sudil Oc iSG OhL did sOaa ~ H1oAS SNAeiS
ractinn.
Whoever sets 4 fire in the woods, and burns
a house, shall suffer death; and persons sus-
s.tcd of this crime shall b, imprisoned with
out benefit Of bail.
Whoever brings cards or dice in this do
miniun shall pay fine of E5.
No one shall read common prayer, keeE
Christmas or saint days, make mince pies,
dance, play cards, or play on any instrument
Of music, except the drum, trumpet and jews
harp
} No gospel minister shall join in marriage
= the magistrates only shall join in marriage, a
! they only may do it with much less scanda
to Christ's Church.
: When parents refuse their children conven
lent marriages, the magistrates shall deter
mine the point.
S The selectmen, on finding the children ig
j norant, may take them away from their pa
t rents, ann put them in better hands, at tn
d expense of the parents.
;. A man that strikes his wife shall be punish
+ ed as the Court directs.
e A wife shall be deemed good evidenc
= against her husband.
y Married persons must live together or b
e imprisoned.
No man shall court maid in person, or b
L letter, without first obtaining the consent {
IS her parents; s7 penalty for the first often:
It $40 for the secondhand for the third, in
l. prisonmeut during the pleasure Of the cour
y Every male shall have his hair cut aecOrC
c ing to cap.