The Pine-tree coast . DUCKING-STOOL. oO THE PINE-TREE COAST. liow woman was regarded in those primitive days when society was formingitself upon the ohl English models : Ordered, that any woman who may abuseher husband by opprobrious language shall be put in the stocks two hours, andif incorrigible may be afterwards whipped. By these few extracts it will beseen that the so-called Blue Laws were by no means confined to the Puritancolonies, as is so generally sujjposed, and that the Maine colonists had a Avay ofmaking laws to fit the offence as well as their neighbors. It is a matter for regret
The Pine-tree coast . DUCKING-STOOL. oO THE PINE-TREE COAST. liow woman was regarded in those primitive days when society was formingitself upon the ohl English models : Ordered, that any woman who may abuseher husband by opprobrious language shall be put in the stocks two hours, andif incorrigible may be afterwards whipped. By these few extracts it will beseen that the so-called Blue Laws were by no means confined to the Puritancolonies, as is so generally sujjposed, and that the Maine colonists had a Avay ofmaking laws to fit the offence as well as their neighbors. It is a matter for regret that we should be quite in the dark as to howthese people set up their primitive housekeeping, how they managed their.
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