. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . ght was claimed by individuals thatthey were not amenable to the law, and that ifthe Quakers had neither banns nor licenses they,too, were exempt. To remedy this certain evil anact of October, 1693, imposed a penalty of £10upon ministers and justices who joined partieswithout publishing the banns or securing the gov-ernors license. Nor were the authorities in East Jersey lesscareful in punishment of those who violated mari-tal rights and obligations. The Legislature inMay, 1668, enacted that adultery should be pun-ished b
. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . ght was claimed by individuals thatthey were not amenable to the law, and that ifthe Quakers had neither banns nor licenses they,too, were exempt. To remedy this certain evil anact of October, 1693, imposed a penalty of £10upon ministers and justices who joined partieswithout publishing the banns or securing the gov-ernors license. Nor were the authorities in East Jersey lesscareful in punishment of those who violated mari-tal rights and obligations. The Legislature inMay, 1668, enacted that adultery should be pun-ished by divorce, whipping, or banishment. Inthe restrictions precluding a man from becominga member of the Great council under the Fundamental Constitutions of 1683 adultery,among other crimes, disqualified a candidate forsuch an honor. Divorces were granted in a fewinstances in East Jersey, but the record is incom-plete as to statement of operative causes. The Society of Friends in West Jersey appar-ently made no provisions relative to the legisla- 324 NEW JERSEY AS A COL. A COLONIAL CHATELAINE. tive regulation of marriages. The peculiar cus-toms of their faith left little room for law-makingwhere a population was religiously homogeneous. As a natural conclusion divorces were practi-cally unknown in the western province, the courtsseeking to unite man and wife at variance ratherthan permanently to separate them. The Burlington court book supports this state-ment in an entry showing that some time before1694 Thomas Peachee and Mary, his wife, hadagreed upon a separation. To effect a reconcilia-tion the Quaker justices at Burlington summonedthem into court, asking them if they were notwilling to live together. Mary agreed, and so didThomas, he stipulating that Mary will acknowl-edge shee hath scandalized him wrongfully. Tothis the woman consented, adding an expressioneternally feminine: But saith shee will notowne that she hath told lies of him to her knowl-edge. At this point the ne
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