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New Hampshire legislators revised its "buggery" law of 1680, adopting the Massachusetts law of 1697 with only minor changes. <ref> 1718: New Hampshire "buggery" law;
Batchellor, vol. 2, p. 314. Forthe law of 1812 see Batchellor, vol. 8, p. 130. </ref> However, the New Hampshire
law, unlike that of Massachusetts, used the term "buggery" to refer to both "sodomy" and "bestiality."


The statute read:
<blockquote>for avoiding of the Detestable and Abominable Sin of Buggery with Mankind or Beast, which is contrary to the very light of Nature:
Be it Enacted ... that the same offense be adjudged Felony.
. . . And that every Man being duly convicted of Lying with Man-kind
as he lyeth with a Woman; And every Man or Woman that shall have Carnal
Copulation with any Beast or brute Creature, the offender and offenders in
either the cases before mentioned, shall suffer the pains of Death, and the
Beast shall be slain and burned. </blockquote>


This law was next revised in 1812, when New Hampshire legislators revoked the
death penalty for this crime.


== References ==

Article adapted from {{GLA}} p. 133.

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