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The Daily Dispatch: October 22, 1864., [Electronic resource], Matrimony in Olden times, (search)
reenfield, Connecticut, relates some interesting incidents of its early history. He says: Among the amusing reminiscences of these days, is the famous courtship of the Rev. Stephen Min, of Weathersfield. He made a journey to Northampton in 1696 in search of a wife. He arrived at the Rev. Solomon Stoddard's, informed him of the object of his visit, and that the pressure of home duties required the utmost dispatch. Mr. Stoddard took him into the room where his daughters were, and introdu longer on the subject, and send her answer by letter to Weathersfield. In a few weeks he received her reply, which is probably the most lacome epistle ever penned. Here is the model letter, which was soon followed by a wedding: "Northampton, 1696. "Rev. Stephen Mix: "Yes. Mary Standard." The matrimonial Mixture took place on the 1st of December, 1696, and proved to be compounded of most congenial elements. Mix was pastor of that paradise of oniens for forty-four years.