The two preceding tables show a portion of the marriages which occurred at ages when such contracts are seldom made, or where the disparity in this respect between the parties was remarkable. Aside from the merely transient interest which they may afford those who review them from curiosity, they have a certain scientific value. It will be seen that 352 females were married at 17, 181 at 16, 33 at 15 and 6 at 14 years of age. Some of the most remarkable marriages of the year were as follows: among the first marriages of both parties, was that of a man of 75 to a woman of 28, another of a man of 67 to a woman of 30, and two others where the parties were each 60 years of age. The youngest couple were a boy of 17 and a girl of 16. A youth of 19 married a spinster of 28, and another married a widow of 30. A youth of 18 married a widow of the same age, and another married a widow of 35. A woman aged 25 married for the fourth time. A man aged fourscore years and six, found his "affinity for the second time, in the person of a maiden of 37. There were marriages of men at the ages of 81, 79, 76, 75 and 74. A man aged 59, married for his third wife, a woman who had been three times married before. A man aged 45 married a woman aged 26, both parties having been twice married before Twenty-nine men married for the fourth time; the eldest at 83, married a widow of 43; the youngest at 36, married a maiden of 18. A woman was married at the age of 78 to a man of 81. There occurred also the fifth marriage of a man of 54 to a widow of 42, and the fourth in each case of a man of 57 to a woman of the same age. NATIVITY of Persons Married in the several Counties of the State.-Numbers. 1870. Dukes. Essex. Franklin. Hampden. Hampshire. Middlesex. Nantucket. Norfolk. Plymouth. Suffolk. Worcester. NATIVITY OF PERSONS Married during Ten Years.-Numbers. Percentages of those stated, equally dividing the Half Foreign. DEATHS. The whole number of deaths reported throughout the State during the year 1870, was 27,329. This number is greater than that recorded in 1869, by 1,275; and it is 2,336 more than the average annual number for the previous ten years (1860-69), including the years of the civil war, when a largely increased mortality was reported. The death-rate for the State for the past six years is given in the following table : |