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From: "Dale H. Cook" <>
Subject: RE: [PLY/MA] Marriage Question--ca 1658
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 21:12:51 -0500
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At 04:38 PM 11/18/2003 -0600, Bill Churchill wrote:

>The reason I say this is that in this period Sarah would not likely have
>been baptized at age 12 unless her parents were Anabaptist.

Bill -

I beg to differ. I have found many instances in Congregational churches
where children were baptized much later than infancy. Sometimes this
occurred where the parents were not church members until a child or parent
died. Then a parent joined the church and all the children were baptized on
the same day.


Dale H. Cook, Research Member, NEHGS
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