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tion IX .
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“ An act to enable towns and parishes to erect proper houses for public worship and support ministers of the gospel ,” Oct . 17 , 1783 , State Papers of Vermont XII , ed ., Allen Soule ( Montpelier , Vt .: Secretary of State , 1964 ), 195 .
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“ An act for the support of the gospel ,” Oct . 26 , 1797 , State Papers of Vermont ( 1798 ) at 477 .
5
Records of the Vermont Council of Censors , ed . Paul Gillies and D . Gregory Sandford ( Montpelier , Vt .: Secretary of State , 1991 ), 158 .
6
“ An act , to repeal a certain act , and parts of an act , therein mentioned ,” Oct . 24 , 1807 , Laws of Vermont of a Publick and Permanent Nature ( Windsor , Vt .: Simeon Ide , 1825 ), 600 .
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Vermont Constitution , Chapter 1 , Section 66 .
8
A small stone is set outside the fence of the East Road Cemetery in Berlin , where a man who committed suicide is buried , said in early records to have been “ church-malled ” for his sin .
9
“ An act against , and for the punishment of adultery ,” ( February 18 , 1779 ) State Papers of Vermont XII , 38 ; “ An act for the punishment of rape ,” ( February 19 , 1779 ), id ., 40 ; “ An act against high treason ,” ( February 13 , 1779 ), id . 42 ; “ An act for the punishment of murder ,” ( February 15 , 1779 ), Vermont State Papers XII , 41-43 , 154 .
10
William Smith , Samuel Cheetham , A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities I ( Boston : Little , Brown , and Company , 1875 ), 638-642 .
11
Edmund S . Morgan , Puritan Political Ideas : 1558-1794 ( Indianapolis , In ,: Hackett Publishing Company , 2003 ), xxx .
12
Andrew v . Andrew , 62 Vt . 495 ( 1880 ).
13
Edgar J . McManus , Law and Liberty in Early New England Criminal Justice and Due Process 1620-1692 ( Amherst , Ma .: The University of Massachusetts Press , 1993 ), 13-14 .
14
Abby Maria Hemenway , Vermont Historical
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Gazetteer III ( Claremont , N . H .: The Claremont Manufacturing Company , 1877 ), 206 , 465 , 902 , 944 .
15
Ezra Hoyt Byington , Gilbert Asa Davis , History of the First Church of Windsor , Vermont , from 1768 to 1898 ( Windsor , Vt .: The Journal Co ., 1898 ), 24 .
16
Brief Sketch of the Life of Luther ( London : The Religious Tract Society , 1840 ), 21 ; Proceedings of the New England Anti-Slavery Convention : Held in Boston , May 24 , 25 , 26 , 1836 ( Boston : Isaac Knapp , 1836 ), 69 ; John Ward Dean , A Brief History of the New England Historical & Genealogical Register ( Publisher not identified , 1866 ), 7 .
17
David Avery , “ A Narrative of the rise and progress of the difficulties which have issued in a separation between the minister and people of Bennington ( Bennington , Vt .: Haswell and Russell , 1783 ), 10 .
18
Bill Morgan , Bennington and the Civil War ( Charleston , S . C .: The History Press , 2013 ), unpaginated .
19
Zechariah Parker , Jr ., A Sketch of the Arbitrary Proceedings of the Baptist Church , in Ludlow , Vt . ( Keene , N . H .: Zechariah Parker , Jr ., 1832 ).
20
Matthew 18 : 15-17 .
21
Zechariah Parker , Jr ., A Sketch of the Arbitrary Proceedings of the Baptist Church , in Ludlow , Vt . ( Keene , N . H .: Zechariah Parker , Jr ., 1832 ).
22
The King James version reads in full , “ All things are lawful unto me , but all things are not expedient : all things are lawful for me , but I will not be brought under the power of any .” 1 Corinthians 6:12 .
23
William Richard Cutter , Genealogical and Person Memoirs ( Baltimore , Md .: Genealogical Publishing Co ., 2008 ), 429 ; John Andrew Graham
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, Descriptive Sketch of the Present State of Vermont ( London : 1797 ), 111-115 ; Freeman Hunt , American Anecdotes : Original and Select I ( Boston : Putnam & Hunt , 1830 ), 78-79 ; Benjamin H . Hall , History of Eastern Vermont II ( New York : Appleton & Co , 1858 ), 730-734 . This story is so rich it may not be true .
24
Records of the Governor and Council of the State of Vermont I , E . P . Walton , ed . ( Montpelier , Vt .: Steam Press of J . & J . M . Poland , 1873 ), 48- 49 .
25
Fornication binds the criminal parties to marry : The Decision of the Congregational Church at Rupert , Vt . relative to a case of discipline ( Bennington , Vt .: Darius Clark , 1815 ), 7 .
26
Exodus 18 : 16 .
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Fornication binds , 30-31 .
28
The pamphlet includes a footnote . “ Dr . Scott , expresses some fears that if this rule were generally adopted and rigidly enforced , a certain class of females would in their turn become seducers for the sake of availing themselves of it . But if men were suitably restrained , there would be little to fear from the other sex .” Id ., 9 .
29
Id ., 12-14 .
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Id ., 33 .
31
Id ., 35 .
32
Farmer ’ s Weekly Museum ( Walpole , N . H .), June 2 and July 7 , 1795 ; Benjamin H . Hall , History of Eastern Vermont II ( Albany , N . Y .: J . Munsell , 1865 ), 665 .
33
Edward Miller , Frederic Palmer Wells , History of Ryegate , Vermont : From its Settlement by the Scotch-American Company of Farmers to Present Time ( St . Johnsbury , Vt .: The Caledonian Company , 1913 ), 117-118 ; Smith v . Nelson , 18 Vt . 511 , 550-551 , 559 , 567-568 ( 1846 ).
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