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The Blue Laws of Connecticut

It's not easy to see who took this picture, since the book it was published in – John Fiske, The Beginnings of New England or the Puritan Theocracy in its Relations to Civil and Religious Liberty (1889, 1898 edition) facing page 146 – had obviously "borrowed" it from someone else who had published it earlier. Either way, the 1898 publication date is now well past 100 years, and no-one seems to have seriously taken up this subject for over 80 years. These "Blue Laws of Connecticut", themselves, however, are public domain and were initially published by the Colony of New Haven in 1656 with the intended purpose for all persons to see and freely reference to.

I, WB2 00:01, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC), do swear and affirm my intentions here, and as a descendant of the early Eaton families of New England will welcome a challenge of the publication of the title page of this document by any one person or persons.

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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States Federal Government under the terms of Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105 of the US Code. See Copyright. Note: This only applies to works of the Federal Government and not to the work of any individual U.S. state, territory, commonwealth, county, municipality, or any other subdivision.

since this is the title page to a historic document important the history of the United States; or if not somehow, since it is in the possession of the DAR or some other historical society or college such as Yale College, then it would be ...

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