1994 MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE RECORDS 

FROM FREEWILL BAPTIST PUBLICATIONS, 1819-1851 

by DAVID C. YOUNG & ELIZABETH KEENE YOUNG

PART 1 & 2

(Softcover)

HERITAGE BOOKS, INC.

.

    FROM THE BACK COVER.

    "MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE RECORDS FROM FREEWILL BAPTIST

PUBICATIONS, 1819-1851.  DAVID C. YOUNG AND ELIZABETH KEENE YOUNG

     THE FREEWILL BAPTIST DENOMINATION BEGAN IN NEW DURHAM, NEW

HAMPSHIRE IN 1760 AND SPREAD WITH THE EXPANDING POPULATION

THROUGHOUT THE STATES OF THE NORTHEAST AND MIDWEST, AS WELL

AS INTO CANADA.  IT IS  NOT OFTEN THAT YOU WILL FIND A COLLECTION

OF MARRIAGE RECORDS, SUCH AS THOSE GATHERED HERE, THAT COVER

SUCH A VAST PORTION  OF THE UNITED STATES, ME, NH, NJ, RI, VT, MA, CT, 

NY, PA,OH, IA, IN, MI, TN, WI AND THE WISCONSIN TERRITORY, CA, OREGON

TERRITORY, AS WELL AS NEW BRUNSWICK AND NOVA SCOTIA AND WHAT 

WAS KNOWN AS LOWER CANADA, CONSISTING OF CANADA EAST (QUEBEC)

AND CANADA WEST (ONTARIO).  THE MAJORITY OF ENTRIES, HOWEVER,

COME FROM NEW ENGLAND, NEW YORK, AND LOWER CANADA.    

     AS AN EXAMPLE, IN MAINE MANY MARRIAGES WERE NOT OFFICIALY

RECORDED UNTIL THE 1830s; IT WAS NOT REQUIRED BY LAW UNTIL  1892.

THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE HAS EVEN FEWER SOURCES FOR MARRIAGE

RECORDS THAN MAINE (I.E. MAINE HAS COUNTY COMMISSIONER MARRIAGE

RECORDS, WHICH APPARENTLY NEW HAMPSHIRE DOES NOT).

     THE ENTRIES IN THIS BOOK WERE ABSTRACTED FROM THE MORNING STAR,

PUBLISHED IN LIMERICK, ME, FROM 1826-1833 AND DOVER, NH, FROM 1833-1851;

THE MAINE FREEWILL BAPTIST REPOSITORY OF LIMERICK, ME, 1843-1851; AND

ENFIELD, NH, FROM 1819 AND 1825.

     ENTRIES ARE LISTED ALPHABETICALLY IN THE FORM OF TWO INDEXES; ONE

FOR THE GROOMS AND ONE BRIDES.  A TYPICAL ENTRY INCLUDES THE NAME

OF THE BRIDE AND GROOM, PLACE OF RESIDENCE, DATE OF MARRIAGE, PLACE

OF MARRIAGE, NAME OFTHE ELDER OR OTHER OFFICIAL WHO PERFORMED THE

CEREMONY, AND A CITATION THAT IDENTIFIES THE PUBLICATION AND ISSUE DATE.

THUS, RESEARCHERS WITH ACCESS TO THE PAPERS IN THE ORIGINAL OR MICRO-

FILM FORM MAY USE THIS VOLUME AS AN INDEX AND REFER TO THE NEWSPAPERS

FOR ADDITIONAL DATA.  AN ALPHABETICAL LIST OF ELDERS/MINISTERS IS ALSO

PROVIDED, NAMING THE DATES AND TOWNS IN WHICH THEY SERVED."

PART I  - LENGTH:  8"  WIDTH:  5.25    PAGES:  (3 thru 358)

PART 2 - LENGTH:  8"  WIDTH:  5.25"   PAGES:  (359 thru 726)

THANK YOU FOR LOOKING!!