Sampson Wickersham and Elizabeth Jackson  

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          =====================
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