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- GLC#
- GLC03107.04859-View header record
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- 1684/08/22
- Author/Creator
- New York (N.Y.). City Council
- Title
- A bill concerning burials
- Place Written
- New York, New York
- Pagination
- 2p. : docket : Height: 40 cm, Width: 31.5 cm
- Primary time period
- Colonization and Settlement, 1585-1763
- Sub-Era
- The Thirteen Colonies
"Be it enacted by this Generall Assembly and by the authority of the same that within every parish within this Government there shall be one or more places apoynted for the Buriall of the Dead and before the Corps be Interred there shall be three or ffour of the neighbours att Least called who may in Case of suspition view the Corps and according to the Desent Custome of Christendom accompany it to the Grave and that no person shall be buried in any other place then those so appoynted ."
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