Tilley--Madam Winthrop's Hard-Hearted Manner--Sewall Looks
Elsewhere for a Wife--Success Again.

III. Liberty to Choose--Eliza Pinckney's Letter on the Matter--Betty
Sewall's Rejection of Lovers.

IV. The Banns and the Ceremony--Banns Required in Nearly all
Colonies--Prejudice against the Service of Preachers--Sewall's
Descriptions of Weddings--Sewall's Efforts to Prevent Preachers
from Officiating--Refreshments at Weddings--Increase in Hilarity.

V. Matrimonial Restrictions--Reasons for Them--Frequency of
Bigamy--Monthly Fines--Marriage with Relatives.

VI. Spinsters--Youthful Marriages--Bachelors and Spinsters Viewed with
Suspicion--Fate of Old Maids--Description of a Boston Spinster.

VII. Separation and Divorce--Rarity of Them--Separation in Sewall's
Family--Its Tragedy and Comedy.

VIII. Marriage in Pennsylvania--Approach Toward Laxness--Ben
Franklin's Marriage--Quaker Marriages--Strange Mating among
Moravians--Dutch Marriages.

IX. Marriage in the South--Church Service Required by Public
Sentiment--Merrymaking--Buying Wives--Indented Servants--John
Hammond's Account of Them.

X. Romance in Marriage--Benedict Arnold's Proposal--Hamilton's
Opinion of His "Betty"--The Charming Romance of Agnes Surrage.