Having declared their intentions of taking each other in marriage before several publick meetings of the people of God called Quakers in [Pulloxhill] according to good order used among them [John Robins of Market Street in the County of Hartford hattbuyer. And Sarah Hobbs of Sundon in the County of Bedford widdow]... [manuscript], [1719 December 27.]

[Pulloxhill?, Bedfordshire], [1719 December 27]

1 item ; 35 x 47 cm

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FAST ACC 271815 (flat)

This is a PRELIMINARY RECORD. It may contain incorrect information. Please email catalog@folger.edu for assistance From dealer's description: "Marriage certificate, printed on single sheet of vellum (approx. 35 x 47cm) contemporary completions penned in ink, with signatures of 39 witnesses at foot of document, 5 shilling blue paper embossed tax stamp at top of sheet, old folds, blank verso with some light dustiness and manuscript docket titles, old folds, very good. Quaker marriages seem to have been recorded on manuscript certificates at least as early as the 1660s, these documents being the principal written record of such unions. Some time before the end of the seventeenth century printed forms of this type, with spaces for completion by hand, were introduced. Printed on vellum this scarce example of a relatively early certificate is dated 27 December 1719, recording the marriage of "John Robins of Market Street in the county of Hartford hattbuyer" and "Sarah Hobbs of Sundon in the county of Bedford widdow" at Pulloxhill in Bedfordshire. A notable feature of Quaker marriage certificates is that those in attendance at the wedding would sign their names at the foot of the document as witnesses, thirty-nine signatures being present here. Quaker meetings at Pulloxhill are recorded in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the witnesses "John Gamble" and "Joanna Gamble" who signed here were most probably related to the Thomas Gamble of Pulloxhill who was fined for hosting a Quaker meeting in his house in 1670. The earliest printed Quaker marriage form that we have traced is dated 1697 (Wing H1162B, a single example located at the Bodleian Library)."|Ordered from Samuel Gedge, D 9252, 2018-11-10, Catalogue XXVII, item 110.