Original material has also been gleaned from the _Collections_ (Boston, 1806-97) and the _Proceedings_ of the Massachusetts Historical Society (Boston, 1879 ff.); Bradford's _History of Plymouth Plantation_ (Boston, 1856); Winthrop's _History of New England_, 1630-49 (Boston, 1853); Hutchinson's _History of Massachusetts_, 1628-1774 (Vol. I, Salem, 1795; Vol. II, Boston, 1795; Vol. III, London, 1828); Cotton Mather's _Magnalia Christi Americana_ (Hartford, 1820); Increase Mather's _Answer of Several Ministers_ (Boston, 1695), on marriage with wife's sister; _The Andros Tracts_ (Boston, 1868-74); Young's _Chronicles of the Pilgrims_, 1602-25 (2d ed., Boston, 1844); _Historical Collections of the Essex Institute_ (Salem, 1896); Lechford's _Note-Book_, 1638-71 (Cambridge, 1885), _idem_, _Plain Dealing_ (Boston, 1867); reprinted also in 3 _Mass. Hist. Soc. Collections_, III; Dunton's _Life and Errors_ (Westminster, 1818); his _Letters from New-England_ (Prince Society, Boston, 1867); the "Town Records of Boston," 1634-1777; and the "Town Records of Dorchester," both in the _Reports of the Boston Record Commission_; "Town Records of Salem," 1634-59, in Vol. IX of _Hist. Coll. Essex Inst._; especially Sewall's "Diary," in 5 _Mass. Hist. Coll._, V, VI, VII (Boston, 1878-80); and his "Letter-Book," in 6 _Mass. Hist. Coll._, I, II (Boston, 1886), both of which afford a wealth of illustration for almost every phase of wedding and other social customs.
Among recent writings relating to the general subject most important are Shirley, "Early Jurisprudence of New Hampshire," in _Proceedings of the New Hamp. Hist. Society_, 1876-84 (Concord, 1885); Earle, _Customs and Fashions in Old New England_ (New York, 1894); Weeden, _Economic and Social History of New England_, 1620-1789 (Boston, 1891); Goodwin, _Pilgrim Republic_ (Boston, 1888); Howe, _Puritan Republic_ (Indianapolis, 1899); Arnold, _History of Rhode Island_ (New York, 1874); Friedberg, _Eheschliessung_ (Leipzig, 1865); Cook, "Marriage Celebration in the Colonies," in _Atlantic Monthly_, LXI (Boston, 1888); Bishop, _Marriage, Divorce, and Separation_ (Chicago, 1891); Lodge, _Short History of the English Colonies_ (New York, 1882); Trumbull, _History of Connecticut_ (New Haven, 1818); Hollister, _History of Connecticut_ (Hartford, 1857); Atwater, _History of the Colony of New Haven_ (New Haven, 1881); Freeman, _History of Cape Cod_ (Boston, 1869); Bailey, _Historical Sketches of Andover_ (Boston, 1880); Bliss, _Side Glimpses from the Colonial Meeting-House_ (Boston, 1896); _idem_, _Colonial Times on Buzzard's Bay_ (Boston, 1888); Brooks, _The Olden Time Series: The Days of the Spinning-Wheel in New England_ (Boston, 1886); articles by Scudder, Whitmore, Edes, McKenzie, Morse, and Goddard, in _Memorial History of Boston_ (Boston, 1882-83); and Newhall, _Ye Great and General Court_ (Lynn, 1897).