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1864–1867
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Marriage Certificates A – Y”.
1864–1866
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Marriage Certificates F – O”.
June 1866–Aug. 1868
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Marriage Certificates Issued”.
Date not recorded
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGUnbound marriage certificates issued, June 1866–August 1868, are arranged by year and thereunder by initial letter of the surname of the family.
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FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe two volumes of marriage certificates, 1 (164) and 2 (165), are dated 1866. Volume 1 (164) covers the period February–April 1866, is arranged chronologically, and has a name index. The certificates in volume 2 (165) are not notated with specific dates,…
1864–1866
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Marriage Certificates P – Y”.
1864–1866
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Marriage Certificates R – Y”.
Date not recorded
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe single volume of marriage certificates, October 1865–February 1867 (167), is arranged chronologically. The volume also contains a register of indentures (December 1865) and an undated list of people delinquent in payments to workers.
Date not recorded
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe single volume of marriage certificates, February–September 1866 (193), is arranged chronologically and has a name index.
November 7, 1871
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA marriage certificate and license for Benjamin Petty and Mary Robinson, issued November 7, 1871 by the commonwealth of Kentucky. The marriage license is on the top of the document. It lists the bride and groom, the date, and is signed by the clerk, Rod…
October 6, 1866
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA marriage license and certificate printed on a single page for James Trumbo and Catharine Williams, who were married on October 6, 1866, in Gallatin County, Kentucky. Both the license and the cretifcate are pre-printed forms surrounded by a border with…
June 20, 1865
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Marriage License for Abslum Susk and Martha Culbert”.
January 8, 1867
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Marriage License for Ben Laughlin and Alice Veeney”.
1866
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis is a marriage license between Gaston Hall and Dido Howard from 1866. It consists of a rectangular piece of paper with both pre-printed and handwritten text. Across the top margin is pre-printed text “Georgia” followed by a blank space with handwritten…
April 19, 1853
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA marriage license, black ink on off-white paper. License is a pre-printed form with space to write in the names of the newly married, the date, and the issuing clerk. License has a decorative border featuring angel motifs, and depictions of Cupid flank…
October 18, 1853
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA marriage license, black ink on off-white paper. License is a pre-printed form with space to write in the names of the newly married, the date, and the issuing clerk. License has a decorative border featuring angel motifs, and depictions of Cupid flank…
1865, 1866–1868
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Marriage Licenses and Certificates”.
1864–1868
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Marriages Licenses and Certificates”.
1838–1889
Martha Bailey Briggs (March 31, 1838 – March 28, 1889) was an American educator who was born and educated in New Bedford, Massachusetts, where she taught formerly enslaved men and women to read and write. In 1869, she moved to Washington, D.C., where she…
Biography
Martha Grey, Countess of Stamford (née Martha Solomons; c. 1838 – 21 August 1916) was a South African-British aristocrat and school patron. She was born as the daughter of a freed slave and was referred to as “a lady of native Hottentot extraction” by the…
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Martin Robison Delany (May 6, 1812 – January 24, 1885) was an American abolitionist, journalist, physician, military officer, and writer. Delany was an early and influential proponent of black nationalism. Delany is credited with the Pan-African slogan of…
1824–1838
Mary (c. 1824 – August 11, 1838) was an American enslaved teenager who was hanged for the murder of her master's daughter Vienna Brinker, a two-year-old girl whom she was babysitting. Her case was notable both for her youth and for the extended legal…
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Shadd Cary founded The Provincial Freeman in Canada West, becoming the first Black woman newspaper publisher in North America. She championed education, self-reliance and abolition.
1815–1900
Mary Barnes Cabell (February 1815 – June 11, 1900) was an American freedwoman who enabled the foundation of Institute, West Virginia. Her story was dramatized in a movie in 2020 called River of Hope. Cabell, born Mary Barnes, was born enslaved in 1815 and…
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