Supplementary List Of Marriage Licenses

Excerpt from Supplementary List of Marriage Licenses Since the publication of the Names of persons for whom mamiage licenses were issued by the secretary of the province of New York previous to 1784. Albany 1860, to which this volume is a supple ment, there have been found three thin folio volumes of marriage bonds which have been bound as v. 41 of the series of Marriage bonds. Of this volume p. 1 - 66 cover the years 17 52 - 53, p. 67 - 144 the years 1755 - 56, and p. 145 - 240 the year 1758. Some of these names were printed by E. B. O'callaghan in the New York genealogical and biographical record, October 1871, 2: 194 - 200, but they are all entered in this list as in Marriage bonds, v. 41. For an account of marriage licenses and description of the original volumes of Marriage bonds see introduction to the Names of per sons for whom marriage licenses were issued previous to 1784. The names in the present supplement have been obtained from the following sources. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This work embraces as complete a collection of early New York marriage licenses as could be put together from official sources. With its various supplements, it comprises records of about one-fourth of all marriages that took place in New York prior to 1784, when the practice of issuing marriage licenses fell into disuse. In brief, it contains approximately 25,000 entries arranged alphabetically under the names of both brides and grooms, each giving the date of the license and a reference to the precise location of the original record.