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Marriage Certificates

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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.

Overview and metadata sections

Call Number:
MC.951.08
Repository:
Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections
Extent:
.25 linear ft. (1 box, 1 oversize box, 1 flat file drawer)
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

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.

John Allen, 1746/7.
Box 9 Folder 2
Scope and Content note

Photo of marriage certificate.

Nehemia Allen, 1700.
Box 9 Folder 3
Scope and Content note

Photo of marriage certificate.

Thomas L. Allen, Undated.
Box 9 Folder 4
Scope and Content note

Photo of marriage certificate.

William Allen, Undated.
Box 9 Folder 5
Scope and Content note

Photo of marriage certificate.

Thomas Canby & Sarah Profton, 1724.
Box 9 Folder 6
Scope and Content note

Original marriage certificate of Thomas Canby and Sarah Profton.

John Carter & Rebecca Carter, 1798.
Box 9 Folder 7
Scope and Content note

Certificate of marriage of John Carter and Rebecca Carter.

Gilbert Evernghim & Phebe Delaplaine, Undated.
Box 9 Folder 8
Scope and Content note

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

David Harlan & Alice Harlan, 1756.
Box 9 Folder 9
Scope and Content note

Handwritten marriage certificate of David Harlan and Alice Starr.

Benjamin Hawley & Mary Johnson, 1756.
Box 9 Folder 10
Scope and Content note

Handwritten marriage certificate of Benjamin Hawley and Mary Johnson.

Jacob Lancaster & Rebecca Bolding, 1761.
Box 9 Folder 11
Scope and Content note

Photo of marriage certificate of Jacob Lancaster and Rebecca Bolding.

Henry T. Lea & Helen Bentley Lea, 1878.
Box 9 Folder 12
Scope and Content note

Photo of a marriage certificate.

Benjamin Luken & Martha Daves, 1798.
Box 9 Folder 13
Scope and Content note

Handwritten marriage certificate of Benjamin Lukens and Martha Daves.

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.

Marmaduke Watson & Mary Richardson, 1797.
Box 9 Folder 17
Scope and Content note

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

George Spencer Morris & Lydia Ellicott, 1895.
Box 9 Folder 18
William S. Collins & Julia Cope, 1894.
Box 9 Folder 19

John M. Sharpless & Eliza H. Jenkinson, 1846.
Box 15 (ovs) 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.

Jonathan Worrill & Sarah Loyd, 1784.
Box 15 (ovs) 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.

Enoch P. Wickersham & Phebe Gatchell, 1844.
Box 15 (ovs) Folder 10
Scope and Content note

Handwritten marriage certificate.

General Physical Description

See Oversize Box 4, Folder 8.

David Bacon & Mary Trotter, 1751.
Map Case Q-4 Map Case 6
Francis R. Bacon & Edith F. Bacon, 1965.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 6
Scope and Contents

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

Isaac Barnett & Lydia Harry, 1768.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 6
Thomas Church & Theophila Fettyplace, 1698.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 6
Benjamin Clark & Bethsheba Elton, 1775.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 6
Stephen Comfort & Sarah Stevenson, 1776.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 6
Lewis Cooper & Hannah Williamson, 1834.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 6
William Garrigues & Mary Mitchell, 1771.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 6
William Hammans & Margaret Staples, 1709.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 6
Thomas Hooton & Bathsheba Braddock, 1762.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 6
William Hooton & Ann Sharp, 1730.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 6
William C. Allen & Elizabeth Bromley, 1883.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 6
James Bromley & Elizabeth Humphreys, 1862.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 6
James Canby & Sarah Wilson, Undated.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 6
Marmaduke Cooper & Mary Jones, 1778.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 6
Briton Corlies & Elizabeth Dugdale, 1816.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 6
John Humphreys & Rebecca Clark, 1827.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 6
John Letchworth & Elizabeth Kite, 1783.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 6
Samuel Lippincott & Anner Haines, 1791.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 6
Joshua Middleton & Jane Molleson, 1697.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 6
John Owen & Hannah Maris, 1719.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 6
William Passmore & Ann Smith, 1713.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 6
Samuel Pastorius & Hannah Lucken, 1716.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 6
Francis Greenleaf Allinson & Mary Irwin Carey, 1885.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 6
Mark Balderston & Ann Scattergood, 1854.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 6
William Aldrich Battey & Rhonda A. Birdsall, 1901.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 6
Walter Leroy Bethel & Mary Stokes Evans, 1945.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 6
Thomas Kite Brown & Caroline Cadbury, 1876.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 6
Richard Tapper Cadbury & Helen V. Nathans, 1884.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 6
Thomas Chase & Alice U. Cromwell, 1838.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 6
Robert Coffin & Lydia C. Bunker, 1838.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 6
William Henry Collins & Julia Cope, 1894.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 6
Joseph Pennock & Mary Levis, 1705.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 6
Roger Prichard & Elizabeth Smith, 1712.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 6
Joseph Rakestraw & Sarah Clark, 1840.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 6
Nathaniel Samms & Sarah Carrington, 1773.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 6
John Sharp Jr. & Ann Haines, 1717.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 6
Edward Tatnall & Elizabeth Pennock, 1735.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 6
Jonathan Taylor & Ellin Shoemaker, 1799.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 6
James Whittall & Ann Cooper, 1739.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 6
Henry Wood & Mary Williams, 1746.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 6
Richard Stanton Dewees & Mary Garrigues, 1890.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 6
John Edge & Ann Pimm, 1768.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 6
Thomas Edge & Edith Pusey, 1806.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 6
Benjamin Ellis & Amy Yarnall, 1824.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 6
Charles Evans & Mary Lownes Smith, 1836.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 6
James Forsythe & Emily Evans, 1848.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 6
William Hoyland & Mary Smith, 1747.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 6
Jonathan Knight & Alice Comfort, 1822.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 6
Japheth Leeds & Ruth Clement, 1841.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 6
Robert Letchworth & Elizabeth Hayes, 1817.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 6
John Marshall & Margaret Chapman, 1763.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 6
Nathan Marshall & Mary Bolton, 1800.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 6
Josiah Reeve & Maria Smith, 1831.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 6
John Stokes & Hannah Smith, 1823.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 6
William R. Thurston, Jr. & Maria H. Sampson, 1869.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 6
Nathan Yarnall & Ann Folwell, 1805.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 6
John Letchworth & Rachel Knight, 1853.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 6
James W. Oliver & Mary Anna Otis, 1884.
Map Case Q-4 Folder 6
Henry Leroyd Haines & Anne Morris Wistar, 1888.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 6
Edward Wood & Marianne Valentine, 1890.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 6
William R. Hazard & Mary Wilbur, 1828.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 6
Frank Parker Ufford & Bertha Hazard Tierney, 1898.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 6
James Smith & Hannah Logan Fisher, 1810.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 6
Joseph Snowdon & Hannah Ecroyd, 1836.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 6
John S. Whitall & Sarah Mickle, 1788.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 7
Joseph Tatnall & Elizabeth Lea, 1765.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 7
Thomas Tierney & Anna Howard, 1867.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 7
George Malin & Margaret Garrett, 1824.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 7
Lea Pusey & Mary Edge , 1806.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 7
Jasper Cope & Rebecca Shoemaker, 1800.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 7
Edward Tatnall & Margery Paxson, 1809.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 7
Joseph Tatnall & Sarah Paxson, 1809.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 7
Charles S. Taylor & Rebecca Hughes, 1873.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 7
Charles S. Taylor & Gertrude Allinson, 1894.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 7
James Whitall & Mary W. Cope, 1856.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 7
John Whitall & Margaret Haines Bacon, 1881.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 7
Scope and Contents

Photographs of newlyweds stitched to certificate.

Joseph Michener & Susanna Hallowell, 1819.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 7
Joseph Rhoads & Elizabeth Snowdon, 1862.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 7
Barton Rowand & Margaret Albright, 1829.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 7
Isaac Sharpless & Elizabeth T. Cope, 1876.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 7
Richard Longstreth & Mary Lawton Comfort, 1926.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 7
Dickson Werner & Emma Jane Jones Lapsansky, 2003.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 7
John Collins & Esther Hunt, 1807.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 7
General

Photograph only

Joseph Hooton & Sarah Pippet, 1813.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 7
General

Photograph only

Thomas Kite & Mary Brinthal, 1747.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 7
General

Photograph and photostat only

Moses Moon & Rachel Burges, 1776.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 7
General

Mounted photograph only

Cresson, Solomon & Anna Watson, 1702.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 7
Scope and Contents

Photostatic copy. Rehoused from HC.MC-1140.

Emlen, Joshua & Deborah Powell, 1728.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 7
Scope and Contents

Photostatic copy. Rehoused from HC.MC-1140.

Caspar Wistar & Katherine Johnson, 1726.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 7
General

2 facsimiles only

Lewry, S. Harry & Anna L. Walton.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 7
Scope and Contents

Rehoused from HC.MC-1248.

John Wistar & Charlotte Newbold, 1781.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 7
Moon, James & Jane Haines, 1813.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 7
Rodger Moon & Ann Nutt, 1708.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 7
General

Mounted photograph only

William Scattergood & Elizabeth Comfort, 1828.
Map Case Q-4 Drawer 7
General

Photostat only

Caleb Cope & Florence Fox, 1909.
Map Case Q-1 Drawer 1
Edward D. Cope & Anne Pim, 1865.
Map Case Q-1 Drawer 1
John Stokes Cope & Elisabeth Hooton Savery, 1910.
Map Case Q-1 Drawer 1
William B. Collins & Mary Griffen, 1856.
Map Case Q-1 Drawer 1
Samuel J. Gummere & Abigail Griscom, 1835.
Map Case Q-1 Drawer 1
James E. Rhoads & Margaret W. Ely, 1680.
Map Case Q-1 Drawer 1
Edward S. Wood & Mary W. Reeve, 1895.
Map Case Q-1 Drawer 1
Edward M. Wistar & Margaret C. Wistar, 1876.
Map Case Q-1 Drawer 1
George Malin Warner & Elizabeth B. Wistar, 1879.
Map Case Q-1 Drawer 1

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