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To date, studies of residential propinquity as a factor in selecting marriage partners have concentrated almost entirely on urban patterns and, while they have produced interesting generalizations, they have overlooked density of population as a relevant factor and have, in one case at least, led to questionable inferences regarding small towns. The present study is not intended as a criticism of its predecessors. The nature of their material quite justifiably precluded density as a factor, and they were, of course, not responsible for inferences concerning material outside their scope. The purpose of this article is, first, to consider the pattern of propinquity for a small town and, second, to propose relative size of various population groupings as a variable to be added to those already noted. The subject of the present study is Simsbury, Connecticut, the population of which grew from 3,625 in 1930 to 3,941 in 1939, the period studied. Information was obtained from all marriage licenses on file in the town clerk's office for this period.