11 Sewall, Diary, 960 (12 Aug. 1720).

12 Many historians have followed Edmund Morgan in an uncharacteristic error on this point. Morgan concluded that Puritans believed that love should follow marriage, but not necessarily precede it. This is not correct.

13 Josselin, Diary, 632 (4 June 1681).

14 Henry R. Stiles, Bundling: Its Origins, Progress and Decline (1869, rpt. Mt. Vernon, N.Y., n.d.); Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750 (New York, 1982), 122-23.