Marriage Certificates

Held at: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections [Contact Us]370 Lancaster Ave, Haverford, PA 19041

This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.

Call Number:: MC.951.08
Repository:: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections
Extent:: 18 items
Language:: English
Preferred Citation:: Marriage Certificates (HC.MC.950.307), Quaker & Special Collections, Haverford College, Haverford, PA.
Date:: 1600s-1898, undated (inclusive)
Form:: Marriage certificates
Abstract:: This collection is comprised of Quaker marriage certificates from various Quaker families.

Quakers are members of the Christian denomination known as the Religious Society of Friends.

This collection is comprised of Quaker marriage certificates from various Quaker families. The collection includes original certificates, photos, and photostatic copies.

See item acquisition note.

Processed by Kara Flynn; completed February, 2016.

Subject

Publisher: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections
Finding Aid Author: Kara Flynn
Finding Aid Date: February, 2016
Access Restrictions: The collection is open for research use.
Use Restrictions: Standard Federal Copyright Laws Apply (U.S. Title 17).

Collection Inventory

Archival Resource Key. Blank certificate, 1600s.

Box 9 Folder 1

Scope and Content note

A photostatic copy of a pre-written, blank Quaker marriage certificate, created during the 1600s, as well as correspondence related to the copy.

Archival Resource Key. John Allen, 1746/7.

Box 9 Folder 2

Scope and Content note

Photo of marriage certificate.

Archival Resource Key. Nehemia Allen, 1700.

Box 9 Folder 3

Scope and Content note

Photo of marriage certificate.

Archival Resource Key. Thomas L. Allen, Undated.

Box 9 Folder 4

Scope and Content note

Photo of marriage certificate.

Archival Resource Key. William Allen, Undated.

Box 9 Folder 5

Scope and Content note

Photo of marriage certificate.

Archival Resource Key. Thomas Canby & Sarah Profton, 1724.

Box 9 Folder 6

Scope and Content note

Original marriage certificate of Thomas Canby and Sarah Profton.

Archival Resource Key. John Carter & Rebecca Carter, 1798.

Box 9 Folder 7

Scope and Content note

Certificate of marriage of John Carter and Rebecca Carter.

Archival Resource Key. Gilbert Evernghim & Phebe Delaplaine, Undated.

Box 9 Folder 8

Scope and Content note

Typed copy of marriage certificate of Gilbert Evernghim and Phebe Delaplaine.

Archival Resource Key. David Harlan & Alice Harlan, 1756.

Box 9 Folder 9

Scope and Content note

Handwritten marriage certificate of David Harlan and Alice Starr.

Archival Resource Key. Benjamin Hawley & Mary Johnson, 1756.

Box 9 Folder 10

Scope and Content note

Handwritten marriage certificate of Benjamin Hawley and Mary Johnson.

Archival Resource Key. Jacob Lancaster & Rebecca Bolding, 1761.

Box 9 Folder 11

Scope and Content note

Photo of marriage certificate of Jacob Lancaster and Rebecca Bolding.

Archival Resource Key. Henry T. Lea & Helen Bentley Lea, 1878.

Box 9 Folder 12

Scope and Content note

Photo of a marriage certificate.

Archival Resource Key. Benjamin Luken & Martha Daves, 1798.

Box 9 Folder 13

Scope and Content note

Handwritten marriage certificate of Benjamin Lukens and Martha Daves.

Archival Resource Key. Owen Evans & Rebecca Humphrey, 1678/9.

Box 9 Folder 14

Scope and Content note

Facsimilie of a marriage certificate between Owen Evan (?) and Rebecca Humphrey.

Archival Resource Key. Marmaduke Watson & Mary Richardson, 1797.

Box 9 Folder 17

Scope and Content note

Photograph of the marriage certificate for Marmaduke Watson and Mary Richardson.

Archival Resource Key. George Spencer Morris & Lydia Ellicott, 1895.

Box 9 Folder 18

Archival Resource Key. William S. Collins & Julia Cope, 1894.

Box 9 Folder 19

Archival Resource Key. John M. Sharpless & Eliza H. Jenkinson, 1846.

Box 15 Folder 8

Scope and Content note

Handwritten marriage certificate of John M. Sharpless and Eliza H. Jenkinson.

General Physical description

See Oversize Box 4, Folder 6.

Archival Resource Key. Jonathan Worrill & Sarah Loyd, 1784.

Box 15 Folder 9

Scope and Content note

Handwritten marriage certificate for Jonathan Worrill and Sarah Loyd, recorded in Philadelphia.

General Physical Description

See Oversize Box 4, Folder 7.

Archival Resource Key. Enoch P. Wickersham & Phebe Gatchell, 1844.

Box 15 Folder 10

Scope and Content note

Handwritten marriage certificate.

General Physical Description

See Oversize Box 4, Folder 8.

Archival Resource Key. David Bacon & Mary Trotter, 1751.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 1

Archival Resource Key. Francis R. Bacon & Edith F. Bacon, 1965.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 1

Scope and Contents

50th anniversary of wedding, renewal and affirmation of vows.

Archival Resource Key. Isaac Barnett & Lydia Harry, 1768.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 1

Archival Resource Key. Thomas Church & Theophila Fettyplace, 1698.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 1

Archival Resource Key. Benjamin Clark & Bethsheba Elton, 1775.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 1

Archival Resource Key. Stephen Comfort & Sarah Stevenson, 1776.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 1

Archival Resource Key. Lewis Cooper & Hannah Williamson, 1834.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 1

Archival Resource Key. William Garrigues & Mary Mitchell, 1771.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 1

Archival Resource Key. William Hammans & Margaret Staples, 1709.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 1

Archival Resource Key. Thomas Hooton & Bathsheba Braddock, 1762.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 1

Archival Resource Key. William Hooton & Ann Sharp, 1730.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 1

Archival Resource Key. William C. Allen & Elizabeth Bromley, 1883.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 2

Archival Resource Key. James Bromley & Elizabeth Humphreys, 1862.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 2

Archival Resource Key. James Canby & Sarah Wilson, Undated.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 2

Archival Resource Key. Marmaduke Cooper & Mary Jones, 1778.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 2

Archival Resource Key. Briton Corlies & Elizabeth Dugdale, 1816.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 2

Archival Resource Key. John Humphreys & Rebecca Clark, 1827.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 2

Archival Resource Key. John Letchworth & Elizabeth Kite, 1783.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 2

Archival Resource Key. Samuel Lippincott & Anner Haines, 1791.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 2

Archival Resource Key. Joshua Middleton & Jane Molleson, 1697.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 2

Archival Resource Key. John Owen & Hannah Maris, 1719.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 2

Archival Resource Key. William Passmore & Ann Smith, 1713.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 2

Archival Resource Key. Samuel Pastorius & Hannah Lucken, 1716.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 2

Archival Resource Key. Francis Greenleaf Allinson & Mary Irwin Carey, 1885.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 3

Archival Resource Key. Mark Balderston & Ann Scattergood, 1854.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 3

Archival Resource Key. William Aldrich Battey & Rhonda A. Birdsall, 1901.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 3

Archival Resource Key. Walter Leroy Bethel & Mary Stokes Evans, 1945.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 3

Archival Resource Key. Thomas Kite Brown & Caroline Cadbury, 1876.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 3

Archival Resource Key. Richard Tapper Cadbury & Helen V. Nathans, 1884.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 3

Archival Resource Key. Thomas Chase & Alice U. Cromwell, 1838.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 3

Archival Resource Key. Robert Coffin & Lydia C. Bunker, 1838.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 3

Archival Resource Key. William Henry Collins & Julia Cope, 1894.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 3

Archival Resource Key. Joseph Pennock & Mary Levis, 1705.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 4

Archival Resource Key. Roger Prichard & Elizabeth Smith, 1712.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 4

Archival Resource Key. Joseph Rakestraw & Sarah Clark, 1840.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 4

Archival Resource Key. Nathaniel Samms & Sarah Carrington, 1773.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 4

Archival Resource Key. John Sharp Jr. & Ann Haines, 1717.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 4

Archival Resource Key. Edward Tatnall & Elizabeth Pennock, 1735.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 4

Archival Resource Key. Jonathan Taylor & Ellin Shoemaker, 1799.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 4

Archival Resource Key. James Whittall & Ann Cooper, 1739.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 4

Archival Resource Key. Henry Wood & Mary Williams, 1746.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 4

Archival Resource Key. Richard Stanton Dewees & Mary Garrigues, 1890.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 5

Archival Resource Key. John Edge & Ann Pimm, 1768.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 5

Archival Resource Key. Thomas Edge & Edith Pusey, 1806.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 5

Archival Resource Key. Benjamin Ellis & Amy Yarnall, 1824.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 5

Archival Resource Key. Charles Evans & Mary Lownes Smith, 1836.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 5

Archival Resource Key. James Forsythe & Emily Evans, 1848.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 5

Archival Resource Key. William Hoyland & Mary Smith, 1747.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 5

Archival Resource Key. Jonathan Knight & Alice Comfort, 1822.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 5

Archival Resource Key. Japheth Leeds & Ruth Clement, 1841.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 5

Archival Resource Key. Robert Letchworth & Elizabeth Hayes, 1817.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 5

Archival Resource Key. John Marshall & Margaret Chapman, 1763.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 5

Archival Resource Key. Nathan Marshall & Mary Bolton, 1800.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 5

Archival Resource Key. Josiah Reeve & Maria Smith, 1831.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 6

Archival Resource Key. John Stokes & Hannah Smith, 1823.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 6

Archival Resource Key. William R. Thurston, Jr. & Maria H. Sampson, 1869.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 6

Archival Resource Key. Nathan Yarnall & Ann Folwell, 1805.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 6

Archival Resource Key. John Letchworth & Rachel Knight, 1853.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 6

Archival Resource Key. James W. Oliver & Mary Anna Otis, 1884.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 6

Archival Resource Key. Henry Leroyd Haines & Anne Morris Wistar, 1888.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 6

Archival Resource Key. Edward Wood & Marianne Valentine, 1890.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 6

Archival Resource Key. William R. Hazard & Mary Wilbur, 1828.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 6

Archival Resource Key. Frank Parker Ufford & Bertha Hazard Tierney, 1898.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 6

Archival Resource Key. James Smith & Hannah Logan Fisher, 1810.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 6

Archival Resource Key. Joseph Snowdon & Hannah Ecroyd, 1836.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 6

Archival Resource Key. John S. Whitall & Sarah Mickle, 1788.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 7

Archival Resource Key. Joseph Tatnall & Elizabeth Lea, 1765.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 7

Archival Resource Key. Thomas Tierney & Anna Howard, 1867.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 7

Archival Resource Key. George Malin & Margaret Garrett, 1824.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 7

Archival Resource Key. Lea Pusey & Mary Edge , 1806.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 7

Archival Resource Key. Jasper Cope & Rebecca Shoemaker, 1800.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 7

Archival Resource Key. Edward Tatnall & Margery Paxson, 1809.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 8

Archival Resource Key. Joseph Tatnall & Sarah Paxson, 1809.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 8

Archival Resource Key. Charles S. Taylor & Rebecca Hughes, 1873.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 8

Archival Resource Key. Charles S. Taylor & Gertrude Allinson, 1894.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 8

Archival Resource Key. James Whitall & Mary W. Cope, 1856.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 8

Archival Resource Key. John Whitall & Margaret Haines Bacon, 1881.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 8

Scope and Contents

Photographs of newlyweds stitched to certificate.

Archival Resource Key. Joseph Michener & Susanna Hallowell, 1819.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 8

Archival Resource Key. Joseph Rhoads & Elizabeth Snowdon, 1862.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 8

Archival Resource Key. Barton Rowand & Margaret Albright, 1829.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 8

Archival Resource Key. Isaac Sharpless & Elizabeth T. Cope, 1876.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 8

Archival Resource Key. Richard Longstreth & Mary Lawton Comfort, 1926.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 8

Archival Resource Key. Dickson Werner & Emma Jane Jones Lapsansky, 2003.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 8

Archival Resource Key. John Collins & Esther Hunt, 1807.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 9

General

Photograph only

Archival Resource Key. Joseph Hooton & Sarah Pippet, 1813.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 9

General

Photograph only

Archival Resource Key. Thomas Kite & Mary Brinthal, 1747.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 9

General

Photograph and photostat only

Archival Resource Key. Moses Moon & Rachel Burges, 1776.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 9

General

Mounted photograph only

Archival Resource Key. Caspar Wistar & Katherine Johnson, 1726.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 9

General

2 facsimiles only

Archival Resource Key. John Wistar & Charlotte Newbold, 1781.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 9

Archival Resource Key. Rodger Moon & Ann Nutt, 1708.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 9

General

Mounted photograph only

Archival Resource Key. William Scattergood & Elizabeth Comfort, 1828.

Case Oversize Drawer Folder 9

General

Photostat only

Archival Resource Key. Caleb Cope & Florence Fox, 1909.