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Marriage Record of Benjamin Hinshaw and Deborah Marshill


Record of the marriage certificate of Benjamin Hinshaw and Deborah Marshill
Cane Creek MM book of marriage records:
"Western Quarter Cane Creek Monthly Meeting Volume I", page 61; microfilm #0371251 in the LDS FHL.

Wheras Benjamin Hinshaw son of Jesse and Abigail Hinshaw & Deborah Marshill daughter of William & Rebeckah Marshill all of Chatham County & province of North Carolina Having declared their Intentions of marriage with Each other before several monthly meetings of the people called Quakers at Cane Creek meeting house in the County of orange and province aforesaid according to the good order used amongst them and having Consent of parents & relations Concerned their said proposals of marriage was allowed by said meetings
Now these are to Certify whom it may Concern
[that] for the full accomplishing their said intention this fifteenth day of ye ninth month in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy four they the sd Benjamin Hinshaw & Deborah Marshill apeared in a publick meeting of sd people and others at their meeting house at Cane Creek aforesaid and the sd Benjamin Hinshaw taking the said Deborah Marshill by the hand did in solemn manner openly declare [that] he took her ye said Deborah Marshill to be his wife promising with the Lords assistance to be unto her a true and faithful husband untill Death should seperate them or words to [that] Effect - and then and there in the same assembly ye said Deborah Marshill did in like manner openly declare [that] she took him the said Benjamin Hinshaw to be her Husband promising with the Lords assistance to be unto him a true and faithful wife untill death should seperate them or words [that] purpose   And Moreover they ye said Benjamin Hinshaw and Deborah Marshill she according to ye 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 being present at ye solemnization of the said marriage do as witnesses hereunto also subscribe our names the day and year above Written --
Benjamin Hinshaw
Deborah Hinshaw

Twelve Names inserted

Jacob Marshill
Margaret Marshill
John Hinshaw
Joseph Hinshaw
Jesse Hinshaw
William Marshill
Abigail Hinshaw
Rebeckah Marshill
John Marshill
Jacob Hinshaw
Ruth Marshill
William Hinshaw
Absolom Hinshaw


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