Family:Peter Mallory and Mary Preston (1)

"Peeter Mallory and his wife was called before the [6 February 1648[/9] court and was charged w^th the sinn of vncleaness or fornication, a sinn w^ch they was told shutts out the kingdome of heaven, w^thout repentane and a sinn w^ch layes them open to shame and punishment in this court. It is that w^ch the Holy Ghost brands w^th the name of folly, it is that wherein men show their brutishness, therefore as a whip is for the horse and asse, so a rod is for y^e folles backe. They confessed their sinn, and desired the court to show them mercy in respect of their bodies, she being weakely, and for ought is known, w^th child, and he subject to distraction, haueing sometime bine distempered that way. W^ch things the court considering, thought it most meete to punish by fine and not by corporall punishment, and therefore ordered that they pay 5^l as fine to the town, and that they be imprisoned during the courts pleasure, & that they be brought forth to the place of correction that they may be ashamed and that it appeare the corporall punishment is remitted in respect of mercy to their bodies, but w^th the shame of the sinn as if the correction was laide onn."^[1]

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Hoadly, Charles J. (Charles Jeremy). Records of the Colony and Plantation of New Haven, from 1638 to 1649: Transcribed and Edited in Accordance with a Resolution of the General Assembly of Connecticut ; with Occasional Notes and an Appendix. (Hartford, Conn.: Case, Tiffany and Company, 1857)
   429, 435.
2. ↑ Jacobus, Donald Lines. The Wife of Peter(1) Mallory of New Haven. American Genealogist (D.L. Jacobus). (Jan 1946).

   … the family names, connections, and migrations, fit very well the theory that (Peter) Mallory's wife was Mary Preston. For all that, it should be understood that the identification is theoretical and it should be stated as a possibility, or even a probability, but not as an established fact.