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- ↑ Milton, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States. Milton Records, Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1662-1843: alphabetically and chronologically arranged. (Boston)
p. 154, 61.
Abigail Newton of Milton and James Puffer ....... Dec. 3, 1695
James Puffer and Abigail Newton of Milton ....... Dec. 3, 1695
- ↑ Boston (Massachusetts). Record Commissioners. A Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston: Containing Dorchester Births, Marriages, and Deaths to the End of 1825. (Boston, Massachusetts: Rockwell and Churchill, city printers, 1890)
p. 102.
James Puffer with Aaigail [sic] Newton of Melton: By the Reverent mr Danforth: ye 17 of ye 10 Mon: 1695.
[Note: In old-styles dates, the tenth month is December. More info may be found here.]
- ↑ Milton, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States. Records of Births, Marriages, Deaths, Intentions of Marriage, 1665-1856 (Approx.). (Microfilm of manuscript filmed at the Milton Town Hall: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1973)
Vol. 1, p. 237.
James Puffer of Dorchester and Abigail Newton of Milton their Intention of marriage was set up to be published upon the 14th day of November 1695.
- ↑ Why does Milton have a different date than Dorchester? The only marriages in the Milton records found online for the 1600s appear to be on here, p. 200, albeit this is only a copy of older records. Rev. Danforth was a pastor in Dorchester, and the marriage is not listed in Rev. Thacher's record of marriages in Milton here,so the marriage probably actually occurred in Dorchester. Besides containing the pastor's names, the Dorchester record uses old style month numbering, suggesting it is a contemporary record, compared to the Milton record which has no such characteristics. It is suspected that Milton was informed of the marriage by a communication from Dorchester pursuant to the Acts of 1857, and the Dorchester town clerk probably sent the date that intentions were published in Dorchester instead of the actual marriage date (i.e., 3 Dec instead of 17 Dec - 2 weeks being about the shortest legal interval between publishment and marriage to allow readings on three Sundays)?
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