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Note N3088 Index

The bride is from Webster, in Rooks County, and is the daughter of the proprieter of the Boylan house in Webster.

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Note N3089 Index

Date is given as 13 Jan 1801 in "Patriot Families". Bondsman was Peter Bell, brother-in-law to Nancy Ann Davis. Consent was given by John Davis, father of Nancy Ann Davis. Peter Bell and John Coy were witnesses and they were married by James Rogers.

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Note N3090 Index

Married by Rev Joseph Parke.

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Note N3091 Index

They were married in the Chrissinger home, according to the marriage account in the possession of John Watkins. John comments that Carrol Township is just outside of his residence in Monongehela and would be in the proximity of the Momomgahela River and boats galore. As would be West Brownsville. John surmises that the Chrissingers and Watkins met up in West Brownsville. The Watkins always were there with many buried, including Lewis. The Watkins family in Pa were usually farmers and not associated with the river.
At the time of her marriage, Mary's parents were living in McKeesport, Allegheny County, Pa, according to the marriage documents in the possession of John Watkins.

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Note N3092 Index

Claimed to have been the first marriage in Cedar township, Knox county, Ill. Alternate date given as 21 Oct 1833 in Ancestry database. Marriage is documented in page 2, volume 1 of Knox county marriage book.

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Note N3093 Index

Documenation appears in volume 1 page 39 of Knox county Marriage books.

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Note N3094 Index

Alternate date given as 01Dec1832 in Ancestry database. Documentation is on volume 1 page 1 of Knox county marriage book.

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Note N3095 Index

Records in the Clerk of the Court's office show this as the first marriage in Knox County.

"Patriot Families" gives marriage date as 23 Dec 1830, as does the Ancestry database..

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Note N3096 Index

Witnessed by Amos Elmaker, Esq, married by Philip Gloninger.

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Note N3097 Index

John and Comfort Coy gave consent for this marriage.

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Note N3098 Index

Married by Rev. F. C. Schaeffer.

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Note N3099 Index

This was James' second marriage.

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Note N3100 Index

Inferred from his children's ages and marriage dates, from Dawood.

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Note N3101 Index

Thomas Jackman, Jr was his bondsman at his wedding.

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Note N3102 Index

Married at the house of George Kendall by F. W. Evans, Pastor of the Old Zion ME Church.

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Note N3103 Index

Debbie cited info from Bob Wyatt as follows: "Their marriage was the first Protestant marriage in the territory by Rev. John Clark. The Patterson home was the preaching location of the first Methodist Society west of the Mississippi River. It was the meeting place for the church from 1832-1833 when the church building was built. Elisha served as a sergeant in James Musick's Company of Militia in the service by order of His Excellency, Benjamin Howard, Commander in Chief, War of 1812".