MARRIAGE
OF:
SAMPSON WICKERSHAM
&
ELIZABETH JACKSON
This document submitted by: Mary Alice Thomas
New Garden
MM - Pages 117 & 118
Whereas Samson
Wickersham son of James and Ann Wickersham of the Township
of East Marlborough, County of Chester & Province of Pennsylvania, And
Elizabeth Jackson Daughter of Jonathan & Mary Jackson of
the same place aforesaid _ _ Having Declared their Intentions of Marriage
with Each other before several Monthly Meetings of the people Called Quakers
Viz: At Newgarden & London Grove in the County & Province Aforesaid
according to the good order used among us & having Consent of parents
& parties Concerned, their said proposals for Marriage was Allowed of
by said Meetings._ _ _
Now
These are to Certifie Whom it may Concern that for the full Accomplishing
of their said Intentions this Twenty second day of the Eleventh Month in
the year of our Lord one Thousand Seven Hundred & seventy five, then
the said Samson Wickersham & Elizabeth Jackson Appeared
in a public Meeting of the said people at the Grove aforesaid & the
said Samson Wickersham taking the said Elizabeth Jackson by
the Hand did in solemn Manner openly Declare that he took her the said Elizabeth
Jackson to be his Wife promising with Divine Assistance to be unto
her a loving & faithful Husband until the Lord by Death please to separate
them, And then and there in the same Assembly the said Elizabeth Jackson
did in like manner Declare that she took the said Samson Wickersham
to be her Husband promising with Divine Assistance to be unto him a Loving
& faithful Wife until it please the Lord by Death to separate them (or
words to that purpose). And Moreover they the said Samson Wickersham
& Elizabeth Jackson (she according to the Custom of Marriage assuming
the Name of her Husband) as a further Confirmation thereof did then and there
to these presents set their Hands.
And we whose
Names are hereunto subscribed
Being
present at the Solemnization of the said Sampson Wickersham
Marriage & subserption have as witnesses
here Elizabeth Wickersham
Unto set our hands the day and year above
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Written.. _ _ _ | Joshua Cloud | James Wickersham |
Elizabeth Chalfant | Dinah Rees | Mary Jackson |
Thomas Jackson | Mary Wright | Sarah Jackson |
Thomas Carrington | Thomas Carleton | |
Abel Wickersham | Robert Lamborn | |
Enoch Wickersham | Francis Lamborn | |
Ruth Taylor | Jeremiah Barnard | |
Rachel Taylor | Francis Swayne | |
Priscilla Wickersham | Samuel Swayne | |
Mary Taylor | William Willis | |
Judith Barnet | William Wickersham | |
Ann Lamborn | Jacob Wright | |
Mary Pusey | Joel Baily |