Sodomy case: New Hampshire, February 14, 1635
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The papers of the Province of New Hampshire, settled in 1623, include a report:
Capt. Wiggin, Governor of Pascutaquack, under Lord Say and Brook wrote
to our governor , desiring to have two men tried here, who had committed
sodomy with each other and that on the Lord's day in time of public exercise. The governor and divers of the assistants met and conferred about it but did not think it fit to try them here.[1]
References
- ↑ Jonathan Ned Katz, Gay/Lesbian Almanac (NY: Harper & Row, 1983), p. 73, citing Nathaniel Bouton, ed., Provincial Papers: Documents and Records Relating to the Province of New Hampshire, from the Earliest Period of its Settlement: 1623-1687 (Concord, N.H.: G. E. Jenks, 1867), vol. I, p. 106.
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