CHAPTER XIII

. ECCLESIASTICAL RITES AND THE RISE OF

CIVIL MARRIAGE IN THE SOUTHERN COLONIES 227-263

I. The Religious Ceremony and Lay Administration in Virginia 228-239

II. Optional Civil Marriage and the Rise of Obligatory Religious Celebration in Maryland 239-247

III. The Struggle for Civil Marriage and Free Religious Celebration in North Carolina 247-259

IV. Episcopal Rites by Law and Free Civil or Religious Celebration by Custom in South Carolina and Georgia 260-263

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