Pilgrim Alden the Story of the Life of the First John Alden in America With the
Pilgrim Alden the Story of the Life of the First John Alden in America With the
Augustus E Alden
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In 1657 it is recorded that one John Copeland was banished because he said that Mr. Alden shook and trembled in his knees when he was before him. Nowadays we should style the obstreperous ^L^i ^:, -^:. , ^. **-^--'^, - v^r v> -"^ ' ' ' , , -*T Document drawn and signed by Magistrate Alden, Pilgrim Hall, Plymouth. PLYMOUTH MAGISTRATE 89 Quaker's offense " contempt of court " and give him more to think of than the privilege of farming in a frontier county. More often, we imagine, the business of ...the mag- istrate was nothing more serious than assessment of fines for absence from church, or administering reproof to some not over-pious youngster or too tongue-loose gossip. There were the marryings, too, which were his to perform; for the Independ- ent reaction against the Established Church went so far as to demand that the marriage ceremony be a civil and not a religious function. John Alden himself was probably married, according to this custom, by Governor Bradford; and in later years he doubtless performed the ceremony for his own as well as for his neighbors' children.
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