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Maker(s):unknown
Culture:American
Title:marriage certificate
Date Made:1773?
Type:Document
Materials:paper; ink
Place Made:United States; New Hampshire; Portsmouth
Measurements:Sheet: 8 x 9 7/16 in; 20.3 x 24 cm
Accession Number:  HD 2014.19.100.4
Credit Line:D.J. and Alice Shumway Nadeau Collection
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield
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Description:
"BY HIS EXCELLENCY/ JOHN WENTWORTH, Esq,/ Captain-General, Govenor and Commander in Chief in and over His MAJESTY's Province/ of NEW HAMPSHIRE. & c./ To either of the ordained Ministers of the Gospel in said Province and to them only; / YOU are hereby Authorised and Impower'd/ to join together in holy matrimony [handwritten:] David Young and Sarah Castman - / unless some lawful Impediment appears to you. to the contrary./ GIVEN at PORTSMOUTH, the Thirteenth Day of January --3 [1773 written in pencil] / Wentworth." Relates to 2014.19.82, tall clock, and 2014.19.9, tall clock.

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