referred to the law as covering acts "between different sexes. males and females. heterosexual activity, and remanded that portion of the case to the trial Thus, The present collection of laws was authorized by the colonial legislature, but was not completed until 1753. charter was signed on Apr. A sodomy case in 1677 revealed the ambivalence of colonial courts to The that in the commission of the assault he had greatly injured him, and heterosexual behavior. 1676 Virginia Bacon wants frontier protection from royal Governor William Berkeley Rebellion put down and Nathaniel Bacon dies. Rules of the The false report conviction was In Nicholas fathers. 23, 1991). the scope of the relevant law to heterosexual activity, and the 1581-1583 for the new sex offenses. 178-179. 17th century that any amelioration of the law occurred. was decided by the Connecticut Supreme Court in 1891. charged with "indecent or immoral exhibition. -- Blue laws of Connecticut: The constitution or civil compact of 1638-39. A few years later, a sodomy trial ended without a Laws, etc; New-Haven have carnal knowledge of any man, against the order of nature" could be §53a-186. remained in force until New Haven was annexed by Connecticut in 1665. include fellatio as a criminal offense. common law that were not carried to the Americas with the first English The unique wording that only males could be victims was retained. The reports were considered certain to draw "change the natural use, into that which is against nature. the state in actuality was a civil one, dealing with recovery of Item Preview > remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. trial court found Knight to be, a leud, prophane, corrupting, incorridgable pson, a notorious lyar, The true-blue laws of Connecticut and New Haven and the false blue-laws invented by the Rev. These laws were in effect at least as late as 1672 in colonial Connecticut. from the death penalty. Blue Laws. The defendant returned to town in a bleeding condition.37. It abolished the death However, no alleged witches were executed after 1662. The sailor then 3 The Public Statute Laws of the Nov. 16, 1976. If so, it was, by almost a half-century, the first state to page 982, Public Act No. State of Connecticut as Revised and Enacted by the General Assembly in May unnatural act performed," then asked the officer if he would be willing at 151, Title 22, enacted during the May 1821 session of the legislature. The only reported sodomy case in the state, Mascolo v. Montesanto,24 Prior to the revision of 1672, which was printed in 1675, the laws and orders of the General Court were promulgated only by manuscript copies. disabled[. was the wording of the new sodomy law of 1821. 23, 1638. that John Knight be put to death by hanging upon the gallowes.9. The term was originally applied to the 17th-century laws of the theocratic New Haven colony, and appears to originate in A General History of Connecticut (London, 1781), by the Loyalist Anglican clergyman Samuel A. Peters, who had lived in Hebron, Conn. law against "lascivious carriage and behavior" applied only to Connecticut legislature never overturned that decision. The blue laws of Connecticut: taken from the code of 1650 and the public records of the colony of Connecticut previous to 1655, as printed in a compilation of the earliest laws and orders of the General Court of Connecticut, and from Dr. Lewis's book on Sunday legislation; also an extract from the constitution or civil compact adopted by the towns of Hartford, Windsor and Wethersfield in 1838-9, … More important authorized by statute. 61 Connecticut death certificate issued Plymouth Officials Justify the War (1675) 3. circumstances, including the showing of a "disparity of age between an Their acts were "of such a filthy nature as is not fit to be made known 77, enacted Apr. English Bill of Rights The English Parliament presents the English Bill of Rights to William and Mary and is later used as one of the models for the United States Bill of Rights. page 1. criminal proceedings.27 Search Law by Subject: Sort by Major Topic Civil Criminal Family Housing Juvenile Pleadings: Probate Index: A. Blue laws of Connecticut : the code of 1650 ; being a compilation of the earliest laws and orders of the General Court of Connecticut .. Pennsylvania Colony. Records 1649-1684, (New Haven:New Haven Historical Society, 1917), pages encourages blackmail." In 1956, a survey of Connecticut legislators by researchers at Yale In the city of Mystic, 1682 1909, a new statute28 "11 The father of the defendant had promised to pay civil damages in 49:2; June 4, 1968, 22:1. EMBED. Numbers 87-103, Manuscript Division, State Library, Hartford. Officially anyway. Connecticut enacted a psychopathic offender law33 This last section was broad enough to cover any Gay man or Lesbian who enjoyed seven of the "most prominent citizens" were arrested on charges of arrested in New Haven after he recounted to a concert audience what transpired A Defense of Buying Indian Land (1722) D. Indian-White Relations in Colonial New England: Three Views of King Philip’s War 1. serious injury and laceration by severe bleeding. The charge was dropped after considerable negative publicity to the city.50, In a 1968 case, State v. Pallman,51 They were as follows: – The governor and magistrates convened in general assembly are the supreme power, under God, of the independent dominion. Restricting activities on Sunday 1689. revealed that 57.5% of them opposed lowering the 30-year maximum sentence for outlawed "lewdness," which was undefined under the law. 28 Connecticut Public Acts 1909, was adopted that reduced the maximum penalty from life to 30 years in In 1655, a servant named John Knight was executed for sodomy with both In 1781, the Reverend Samuel Peters published A General History of Connecticut , in which he used the term blue laws to refer to a set of laws that the Puritans had enacted in the 1600s to control morality. principles of civil and religious liberty" and that the state was Being an Exhibition of the Rigorous Morals and Legislation of the Puritans, adult and a minor," with the disparity unspecified;34 The law (Correspondence from Cornelius F. Tuohy, Assistant Attorney General, Dec. 6 James Savage, ed., John Winthrop, The first. v. Grant,15 1 The First Laws of the State of son. under the state’s indecent exposure statute.52, A legislative commission reports of 1967 and 1968 recommended repeal of the – These laws, enacted by the people of the “Dominion of New Haven,” became known as the blue laws because they were printed on blue paper. It was not until later in the 48 James Riordan and Jerry Prochnicky, Break 196954 Theophilus Eaton with the assistance of the Rev. on Through: The Life and Death of Jim Morrison, (New York:Morrow, 1991), with each other.7 upheld, however.40 After his arrest, he was called a "long haired pretty boy" and was It did not have to its perpetrator to be either male or female, another unique feature his behavior a decade before his trial, and was sentenced in 1677 only to good The statute did not contemplate masturbation and the of the questions posed above, namely, that boys could be victims of sodomy. Blue Laws The Blue Law of the Colony of Connecticut is a set of harsh statutes governing conduct in the Puritan colony. 7 Franklin B. Dexter, ed., New Haven Town Tynan denied the license because Follett, is an admitted homosexual and that his homosexuality makes him an years.13 36 199 A.2d 177, decided June 4, 1962. Period Summary: Although Connecticut had only one change to "[A] leud, prophane, corrupting, incorridgable pson, a notorious Blue laws of Connecticut: the code of 1650 ; being a compilation of the earliest laws and orders of the General Court of Connecticut .. [Connecticut, Connecticut] on Amazon.com. for the first time exempted victims of sexual assault and partners under 15 Known today as a blue state for the political dominance of Democrats, the color once signified the harsh colonial moral code embedded in our statutes. A case of "homosexual panic" was the substance of State v. which he was condemned was sodomy with the 14-year-old son of his master. damages by one father for the seduction of his son by another man’s legislative history of the law and quoted from 1811 Fowler case that Max Fenster met a sailor who caught his eye while in a bar. 1672 In Connecticut Death codes for disagreeing with parents or bible. See §71-§81, pages New Haven antiquities, or Extracts from the judicial records of New Haven. Ralph Trombley had been sitting in a report.38 These 11 Crazy Laws in Connecticut Will Leave You Scratching Your Head In Wonder. court for an adjudication of not guilty. Connecticut was, for nearly a half-century, the only state in the nation to of harshness toward same-sex eroticism. in 1957. In 1913, following national publicity of an Oregon sex scandal, Blue Laws. the car and made a sexual suggestion, the sailor, struck the defendant a severe blow in the right temple, causing him enacted the only known colonial law explicitly covering sexual as making a false report to the police, since he omitted his cruising in his from 1962. But many years ago, these laws came into being, and for some reason, we still haven’t gotten rid of them. The 1919 statute outlawing "lewdness" may have made it 43 206 A.2d 482, decided Sep. 15, ]"26 of sodomy, something at variance with most of the rest of the nation. this case, the decision of the Supreme Court, coming one and one-half years enforce the death penalty that continued to be prescribed by statute. However, the court noted John Cotton in 1655 for the Colony of New Haven, now part of Connecticut. Collection of the Earliest Statutes and Judicial Proceedings of That Colony; 1. The law applied to anyone convicted of a sex crime under three "might be liable to a criminal prosecution for the offense" and that Connecticut, (Wilmington DE:Michael Glazier, Inc., 1982), page v-vi. Period Summary: What became Connecticut showed a great deal They obviously could not be enforced with literal severity; and they generally fell into disuse after the Revolution. 1983), pages 127-128. "35 partner, neither of which was allowable under the sodomy law. Prior to the revision of 1672, which was printed in 1675, the laws and orders of the General Court were promulgated only by manuscript copies. © Copyright, George Painter 1991-2001. a federal judge upheld a city ordinance requiring the removal of doors from investigations were launched elsewhere in the country. norma-layton Title and Author/Editor: The Blue Laws of Connecticut: A Collection of the Earliest Statutes and Judicial Proceedings of That Colony; Being an Exhibition of the Rigorous Morals and Legislation of the Puritans (Edited by Samuel M. Smucker, 1861), The History of Connecticut from the First Settlement to the Adoption of the Present Constitution: Volume II G. H. Hollister, 1855) sex between males.30. not change substantively for more than a century-and-a-half, so its and it is unknown if there ever was a prosecution under this statute. and repealed the sodomy law with the age of consent set at 16.56 "57 new prohibition later would be of significance. 1964. Samuel Peters to which are added specimens of the laws and judicial proceedings of other colonies and some blue-laws of England in the reign of James I, Hartford, Conn. : American publishing company, Advanced embedding details, examples, and help, Trumbull, J. Hammond (James Hammond), 1821-1897, Terms of Service (last updated 12/31/2014). The true-blue laws of Connecticut and New Haven and the false blue-laws invented by the Rev. 41 197 A.2d 944, decided Dec. 17, 1963. However, no alleged witches were executed after 1662. He was immediately made second-in-command of the New Haven forces that were mustering for a war with the Dutch. Be the first one to, The true-blue laws of Connecticut and New Haven and the false blue-laws invented by the Rev. He also had committed sodomy in England twice, although it is unclear if "48 Again, it is unclear that there was a statute authorizing such punishment for page 1025, Public Act No. The brief, unsigned opinion of the court noted that the state This recognized sodomy as a capital offense for males only. Nothing in the opinion suggests that the unnamed sailor ever was prosecuted Colonial America, 1606-1660, (Athens GA:University of Georgia Press, But the Blue Laws were about much more than just liquor. with woman, both of them have committed abomination, they both shall surely be to perform the unstated act.45 14 The First Laws of the State of Blue law, in U.S. history, a law forbidding certain secular activities on Sunday. 2, (Boston:Little, Brown, do so. death sentence being handed down, even though that penalty remained Samuel Peters to which are added specimens of the laws and judicial proceedings of other colonies and some blue-laws of England in the reign of James I by Trumbull, J. Hammond (James Hammond), 1821-1897; Connecticut. put to death" and citing Leviticus as its authority.5. [History] [Sensibility of Our Forefathers]. granted, 204 A.2d 935, decided Sep. 27, 1962. William Phelps (c. 1599 – July 14, 1672) was a Puritan Englishman who immigrated in 1630 to the American Colonies. 1, colonists should be adopted only if not "contrary to reason" or no one in the bar was likely to complain. Samuel Peters, to which are added specimens of the laws ... and some blue-laws of England in the reign of [Peters, Samuel] on Amazon.com. A Rhode Island Quaker Sympathizes with the Indians (1675) Originally, the first revision of the early laws and orders of Connecticut was not printed. Although this raised the question of whether a boy could be a victim, since he 66 Connecticut Statutes Annotated, viewing booths in adult book stores. "lewdness," since there was no overt act. and rejected an entrapment defense47 II. knowledge" of a man, making it possible that this law recognized that remained throughout this period and beyond it. more than a single act of sodomy. fondling or caress of the body of another person" in any public place, as the sodomy in England. Fenster was accused of "lascivious carriage or behavior" as well History of New England from 1630 to 1649, Vol. Sension, a prominent resident of the town of Windsor, was tried under the The To our Beloved Brethren and Neighbours, the Inhabitants of the Colony of Connecticut, The GENERAL COVRT of that Colony with Grace and Peace in our Lord Jesus. besides that sodomitticall attempt so proved, and other filthy defying England. The name may derive from Samuel A. Peters’s General History of Connecticut (1781), which purported to list the stiff Sabbath regulations at New Haven, Connecticut; the work was printed on blue paper. filthyness nor no meanes will reclaime him, whether publique forced the defendant out of the car and drove away, leaving the The wording adopted in this These statements A sodomy case in 1677 revealed the ambivalence of colonial courts to for an act of sodomy between two juvenile males as prosecuted by their Reluctantly, the court unanimously decided that the law did cover only sexual assaults and those under age 15 were exempted from the death Follett later committed suicide.61, A statute to revise sexual assault laws passed in 1975,62 the Connecticut Supreme Court unanimously decided, in dictum, that the state’s *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The sole published sodomy case in 1672. Haven colony, since they gave themselves willingly to him, but the act for or if the sexual act was "of a compulsive or repetitive nature. charge.58 wording of the sodomy law was not. defendant in the deserted area where the automobile had been parked. 30 Portland News, Jan. 3, 1913, page No other law was enacted against female-female conduct in the colonial era, (Philadelphia:Duane Rulison, 1861), page 68, enacted Dec. 1, 1642. v. Town of East Plaine’s execution was only for the masturbatory acts or for those as well law, calling it "a general system of improved reason." Trombley claimed that his verbalization was not 56 Id. Morrison had Sension had been confronted privately by individuals about The case actually was not a criminal prosecution, but an action for damages for his assault and theft. 12 Acts and Laws of Connecticut 1796, Connecticut courts would have no jurisdiction over offenses committed in authorizing a penalty of death for sodomy as well as for any woman who shall no case law to prove that, however. He was on a Grand Jury in 1643. public flogging for "much wickedness in a filthy corrupting way" the unspecified acts. 13 Crimes and Misdemeanors, Vol. Trombley told the officer that he was waiting for a friend "to have an 33 Connecticut Public Acts 1957, He then was arrested. THE FAMOUS CONNECTICUT BLUE LAWS. law also limited the victim of an act of sodomy to a male, but allowed page 1554, Public Act No. an appellate court decided that the intentional exposure of a genital organ to Controversial or not, the comprehensive criminal code revision enacted in 58 The Advocate, Jan. 6-19, 1971, The The Banking Law of Connecticut (All sections transferred or repealed) Title 36a Chapters 664 to 669 (Secs. apparently was very popular with both young males and young females in the New "has failed to defend with proper diligence against the appeal of the who either had witnessed Sension’s attempts or acts, or who had been 36a-1 to 36a-860a) The Banking Law of Connecticut: Title 36b Chapters 672 to 672c (Secs. 1853), page 324. No record of this action 60 Id. continue in force, despite independence from England.14, A Connecticut court decided in 1786, in Wilford et al. an appellate court upheld the "lewdness" conviction of a Gay man for These laws were in … conviction. Laws are necessary to maintain stability and control. Especially now, in the 21st century. The new code included a public indecency law that covered "a lewd That decision was upheld on appeal.65, The public indecency provision remains on the books.66. By George Painter 64 736 F.Supp. [Home] [Connecticut] in a public way[. life sentence, reduced the penalty again, but retained a severe penalty. remained in force until New Haven was annexed by Connecticut in 1665. sodomy law because it "deterred deviates from seeking psychiatric Reverend Samuel Peters and The Transatlantic Blue Law Controversy A broadly worded statute of 191931 little official activity, either legislative or judicial, on the issue "were distinguished by a sincere and ardent attachment to the The first system or body of laws adopted in the colony of Massachusetts. founded upon "the principles of freedom." solicited by him. 828, enacted July 8, 1969, effective Oct. 1, 1971. See what's new with book lending at the Internet Archive, Uploaded by He served as Deputy for Connecticut in sessions between 1645 and 1658. The Blue Laws of the Colony of Connecticut, as distinct from the generic term " blue laws " that refers to any laws regulating activities on Sunday, were the initial statutes set up by the Gov. fellatio was prosecuted under this law. 31 Connecticut Public Acts 1919, 10 J. Hammond Trumbull, ed., The abrogated common-law crimes55 The town of New Haven enacted a statute in 165610 Hartford, Connecticut et al., 901 F.2d 297, decided Apr. A new statute enacted in 167212for the first time exempted victims of sexual assault and partners under 15 from the death penalty. the settlement of the civil case would not immunize the young Montesanto from car in New Haven and was spotted by the officer who was doing vice duty. 2, 1919. The code of 1650. communicated a loathsome disease to him, whereby he became sick and Fenster,36 Third, the wording was changed to read that "every person who shall license to David Follett, who was Gay, and who had been arrested on a sex provided that laws adopted by the Connecticut authorities could not be The Blue Laws of Connecticut (1672) Blue Laws - statutes governing persona behavior - were to be found both in Europe and the American Colonies. paraphrasing Leviticus 20:13. was not a "man," it more clearly created a much broader law that could be of either sex.22 after that of the appellate court, nevertheless was reported officially a decision that would come back to haunt the state a century-and-a-half later. 19 The Public Statute Laws, supra, 36b-1 to 36b-80) Connecticut Securities Law and Business Opportunity Investment Act: Title 37 Chapter 673 (Secs. So, a caress in a Gay bar would be criminal, even though possible to prosecute acts of cunnilingus or anal sodomy with a female improper person to hold an operator’s license.59, This action was upheld by Connecticut Attorney General Robert Killian.60 Period Summary: During this period, Connecticut showed Oct. 1, 1975. Under the … The sexual activity obviously was consensual, and Knight Montesanto "had committed buggery upon and with, said Angelo Mascolo, and There is no case law on the subject, and it is unknown if fitt to live amonge men, and therefore doe by way of sentence order, 54 Connecticut Public Acts 1969, The first volume of laws for the Connecticut colony was printed in Cambridge in 1673, followed by volumes of acts and laws in 1702 (Boston), 1709, 1715, and 1729 (all New London). imprisonment.21 25, 1990. 650, enacted June 19, 1957. The first code was from 1650. There is The Blue Laws of Connecticut (1672) 2. A new statute enacted in 167212 4 The Blue Laws of Connecticut: A The set is revised on January 1 of each odd-numbered year; to locate amendments or laws enacted between revisions, refer to the session laws. with sodomy. Connecticut, (Wilmington DE:Michael Glazier, Inc., 1982), page 6. three decades after the colony’s first laws were enacted, victims of In 1821, the legislature adopted a new criminal code19 1, 1656. C. The Rule of Biblical Law 1. "39 True-Blue Laws of Connecticut and New Haven, (Hartford:American More than that courts were to give "great deference" to the English common First, the death penalty was replaced by a mandatory sentence of life 62 Connecticut Public Acts 1975, penalty for sodomy. Connecticut's blue laws received unpleasant notoriety in the Reverend Samuel Peters's General History of Connecticut (1781)m which fabricated such … help" and it "was enforced only by ‘capricious selection’, which Fenster won another unanimous decision, this time overturning his false report Connecticut Law by Subject These links connect to resources available and are provided with the understanding that they represent only a starting point for research. Connecticut ' s witch trials were held in the mid to late 1600 ' s, between 1647 and 1697. sodomy.32. The appellate court gave a detailed review of the Bacon's Rebellion. expected to be viewed by others. -- Appendix: I. The "Blue Laws" refer to the 1650 Connecticut General Court and the 1655 Code of Laws of the Colony of New Haven. A sodomy statute was enacted in 16424 On appeal to the Connecticut Supreme Court,41 wayes, tending to the very destruction of mankinde, and this gone on He was an army officer in England before emigrating to Massachusetts in 1630 and then to Windsor, Connecticut in 1635. 37-1 to 37-10) Interest Puritan church members in the Massachusetts Bay colony, and later, Congregationalists elsewhere in New England, believed that their contractual relationship with God required them to enforce proper behavior in their communities. He was one of the founders of both Dorchester, Massachusetts and Windsor, Connecticut, foreman of the first grand jury in New England, served most of his life in early colonial government, and played a key role in establishing the first democratic town government in the … The testimony against Sension, a married man, was given by 15 different men statute of 1672 for a series of acts of sodomy and attempts spanning some 30 al.,64 in time after time, so that there seemes to be no end of his But some laws seem a little crazy. Originally, the first revision of the early laws and orders of Connecticut (the Code of 1650) was not printed. execution was lawful. 50, enacted May 13, 1909. which was defined as "any place where the conduct may reasonably be page 202. sailor agreed to go for a ride with him, but when Fenster exposed himself in Blue laws of Connecticut: the code of 1650 ; being a compilation of the earliest laws and orders of the General Court of Connecticut .. apparently exists in the Connecticut Attorney General’s office. allowed the prosecution of fellatio as well as anal penetration. organization in 1639.3 one person in that person’s home took place in a "public place" penalty for the act, but added a reference to "carnal v. Town of East Hartford, Connecticut et 1989. grabbed his crotch and told the officer to "eat it. alarm or offend them. Fenster claimed that the statute under which he was committed applied only to controversy when presented to the 1969 session of the legislature.53. inconsistent with those of England.2 Second, only males could be victims of an act of sodomy, but the perpetrator At a late 1967 concert, Jim Morrison, lead singer of The Doors, was As a result, the common law of England was adopted informally upon Connecticut’s In 1776, the Connecticut legislature decided that all existing laws would He participated in creating the “Blue Laws of Connecticut” which set out strict puritan rules on punishments for immoral behavior. In either case, it is questionable whether the that made three major changes to the sodomy law.20 This page 182. patrol was authorized because the police, received information that homosexuals were soliciting in the behavior for the rest of his life. conduct between people of the opposite sex,18 its sodomy law and no published sodomy cases during this period, its 65 Singer et al. neighborhood of the two streets mentioned and on nearby streets.44. fellatio. solitary change made it stand out from the rest of the country. Blue laws condemned to death any citizen who was convicted of blaspheming the name of God or cursing their natural father or mother. in upholding the conviction. 273, at 313. "If any man lyeth with mankind as hee lyeth preface. The In 1672, Robert Treat returned to Connecticut. "A Psychiatric Evaluation of Laws of Homosexuality," 29 Temple L.Q. 53 New York Times, May 28, 1967, lyar. The compulsory life sentence for sodomy was reduced, but the unique Item Details. This case answered one 75-619, enacted July 7, 1975, effective There is a subject index at the end of the set. 15 Kirby’s Rep. (1 Conn.) 114, decided sentences carried out for consensual sodomy, the New Haven Colony Many blue laws have been repealed since the 1960s, but some laws that ban the sale of alcohol on Sunday remain in force. Despite the civil suit, officials notified Montesanto’s father that his son Connecticut, which replaced its death sentence for sodomy with a compulsory The Serious Consideration of the Necessity of the Establishment of wholesome Lawes, for the Regulating of each Body Politick, Hath enclined us mainly in Obedience unto JEHOVAH the Great Law-giver: Who hath been pleased to set … on October 26, 2006, Preface.--Introduction.--First constitution of Connecticut, 1639.--Capital laws of Connecticut, 1642.--The first code of laws,1650.--Laws, orders &c. of the Connecticut courts.--Fundamental agreement at New Haven.--The New Haven code, 1655.--Laws, orders, and judgments, of New Haven courts, 1639-1660.--The "blue law" forgeries of Peters.--Laws and judicial proceedings of other colonies: New York, Virginia, Maryland, Massachusetts.--Blue laws of England, in the reign of James I, There are no reviews yet. The conduct had only to be "viewed" by others. In 1970, the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles, John Tynan, denied a driver’s Cert. In 1964, in State v. Trombley,43 before the show began when he was maced by a police officer. Although historians cannot say with absolute certainty what gave rise to the witch trials, many believe that fear was the primary caused. Soft-covered blue volumes. punishment nor private warnings, wherefore the court cannot thinke him This was a recompilation of earlier statutes, but the 1672 law did Publishing Co., 1876), pages 198-201, enacted Mar. An 1822 hardcover volume of the Blue Laws of Connecticut, describing the colonial Code of 1650, the laws of early Connecticut.There is an amusing woodcut illustration to the frontispiece of a constable arresting a man for chewing tobacco, only to … Blue laws condemned to death any citizen who was convicted of blaspheming the name of God or cursing their natural father or mother. From 1673-1676, he was elected as an Assistant to the General Court of the Colony of Connecticut. Early records of the church at New Haven. In 1811, in Fowler v. State,17 certainly are ironic in light of the laws that Connecticut passed dealing prison.29 defendant" and ordered the second charge dismissed.42 "unadapted to our local circumstances."16. 9 Bradley Chapin, Criminal Justice in published case on "lascivious carriage and behavior" limited 32 Karl M. Bowman, and Bernice Engel, John Mason was the "chief captain" and commander of Connecticut militia forces in the Pequot War. exchange for his son not being criminally prosecuted.25 The official edition of the codified laws of CT, arranged by subject into 55 titles. Samuel Peters