Subject: [PLY/MA] Re: MAPLYMOU-D Digest V03 #94 > >In a message dated 06/03/2003 7:03:48 PM, MAPLYMOU-D-request@rootsweb.com >writes: > ><< it is not correct that the marriage of >a widow to her husband's brother was legal. Both cases were incestuous. > >> > It's not my intention to incite, but I am a product of such a union and I'm also a product of 1st cousins marrying-- They're all well known in early MA--Hingham and Groton. No punishments. I've seen people fined for not attending Church, fined for not making militia muster. There is also a good tale about one of the Mayflower passengers having a duel (fistfight?) with another inhabitant at Plymouth. Is anyone aware of any widower who has been punished for marrying his wife's sister or for first cousins marrying in MA in the 1600s? References please. thanks, Charles