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Marriage Certificate of Robert Johnson & Katherine
Hadley
19 August 1732
From this site, copied on December 21,
2003. The site has several images
of the original document.
http://www.hadleysociety.org/index512.html
"Whereas Robert JOHNSON son of Robert
JOHNSON of Newgarden in ye County of Chester in ye province of Pensilvenia, and
Katherin HADLY daughter of Simon HADLY of Newcastle County on Delaware, Having
declared their intentions of Marriage with each other before several Monthly
Meeting of ye Christian people called Quakers at Londongrove & Newgarden in
ye County of Chester aforesd according to ye good order___ amongst them &
having consent of parents and relations their sd proposal of Marriage was
alowed [sic] by ye Sd Meetings. Now these are to certifie whom it may concern
that for ye full accomplishing their said intentions this nineteenth day of ye
Eight month in ye year of our Lord: 1732: they ye sd Robert JOHNSON and
Katherin HADLY appeared in a publick meeting of ye sd people at Newgarden
Meeting house in ye County of Chester aforesd and ye sd Robert JOHNSON taking
ye sd Katherin HADLY by ye hand did in solemn maner openly declare that he took
her ye sd Katherin HADLY to be his wife promising with he Lords assistance to
be unto her a loving & faithfull Husband untill Death should separate
them.... And then & there in ye sd assembly ye said Katherin HADLY did in
like maner [sic] declare that she took ye sd Robert JOHNSON to be her husband
promising with ye Lords assistance to be unto him a faithfull & loving wife
untill death should separate them... And Moreover they ye sd Robert JOHNSON
& Katherin HADLY she according to ye Custom of Marriage assuming ye sd name
of her husband as a further Confirmation thereof did then and there to her -
presents sett their hands. And we being present at ye solemnization of ye sd
marriage Robert JOHNSON and subscription Do as Witnesses hereunto also
subscribe Katherin JOHNSON our names ye Day and year above written."
The following signatures are affixed to the document:
William HAMMANS, Mary LIGHTFOOT, Ephraim JACKSON, Simon HADLY, Katherine
LIGHTFOOT, Ruth HADLY, Sarah MILHOUS, Margret JOHNSON, Martha HOBSON, Mary
JACKSON Ruth MILLER, Joshua
HADLY, Rebekah YARNALL, Joshua JOHNSON, Rachel YARNALL, Sarah JOHNSON, Hannah DIXON, Joseph
SHARP, Thomas YARNALL, Samuel JACKSON Mary JOHNSON, Rachel MILLER, Ruth
JOHNSON, Ann HADLY, Benjamin JOHNSON, Benj. FRED, Michael LIGHTFOOT, Jere.
WOLLASTEN, William JACKSON, Thomas GRAY, John POE, Joseph ??, Thos. MILHOUS,
Abigail BAILY, Ann JACKSON, James JOHNSON
The document also contains two signatures that are
illegible.
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