>>The "Blue Laws" refer to the 1650 Connecticut General Court and the 1655 Code of Laws of the Colony of New Haven.
Click through the slideshow above to see some of the most interesting ones, and click here to read Trumbull's book in its entirety.
The laws did not garner attention until Reverend Samuel Peters’s included them in his "General History of Connecticut" in 1781. It was unclear if the blue laws were intended to be read satirically.
In 1876, James Hammond Trumbull's book "The true-blue laws of Connecticut and New Haven and the false blue-laws invented by the Rev. Samuel Peters" lists the famous Blue Laws outlined in Peters' book.