To: muir_redwoods
That’s how it was handled by the Pilgrims in Plimoth/Plymouth. They believed marriage had nothing to do with religion and shouldn’t be connected with a church. Marriage was strictly a legal contract.
To: MayflowerMadam; Albion Wilde; Responsibility2nd; trisham; ansel12; P-Marlowe; little jeremiah
That’s how it was handled by the Pilgrims in Plimoth/Plymouth. They believed marriage had nothing to do with religion and shouldn’t be connected with a church. Marriage was strictly a legal contract. You couldn't possibly be more wrong.
The Pilgrims landed in 1620, spent the next several years figuring out how to stay alive and then passed the FIRST marriage license laws in America in 1639.
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06/04/2014 1:22:21 PM PDT by
wagglebee
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