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Adams, Thomas (fl. 1795) [Certificate of marriage for Mingo and Dinah Night]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC08257 Author/Creator: Adams, Thomas (fl. 1795) Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph document signed Date: 06 October 1795 Pagination: Order a Copy

Records the marriage of Mingo and Dinah Night, "free black people."

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County of Burlington
These are to Certify that on the Twenty first day of August Anno Dom. one Thousand Seven hundred and Ninety five, I the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Burlington, joined Warrant Mingo and Dinah Night both of the County aforesaid, being free Black People, in the Holy Bond of Matrimony and then pronounced man and wife. Given under my Hand this 6th day of october A.D 1795.
Tho. Adams JO.

[docket]
Certificate of Marriage
Warrant Mingo
to
Dinah Night
Burlington 1795
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Recorded in Book A of Marriages page 5-
Lawrence [Clk]
[illegible] [paid]

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