The Blue Law of the Colony of Connecticut is a set of harsh laws governing behavior in the Puritan colony, listed in Connecticut history published in 1781 in London by Rev. Samuel Peters, an Anglican who has been forced to leave America. Peters' book popularized the term "blue law", referring to a law restricting activities on Sunday.
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Peters was an Anglican priest who was hostile to the cause of American independence and forced to flee to London in late 1774, just before the Revolutionary War broke out; he made 45 harsh laws as a hoax to discredit America as backward and fanatical, and in 1781 published it in a book called Connecticut General History , which contains many other tall tales.
According to Peters, the blue law "never suffered to be printed", but especially in the 19th century they were confused by Code 1650 colonists from Connecticut and by law compiled in 1655 by Theophilus Eaton Governor for the unrelated colony of New Haven where he drew the writings of Reverend John Cotton and the laws of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and which were printed in London with blue covers for the use of the colonists.
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