Instructions on conducting a wedding ceremony as recorded in an autograph document, signed

by Samuel Berry, as Justice of the Peace for Westerley, Rhode Island , undated but circa 1790

$450 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

Folio. One page, approximately 200 words. In part: First ask Whether the two Present to be Joynd Together in the Holy ordinance of Marriage … Next ask Whether they are Published according to Law or the Custom Where they Live … Next ask if they have got the Consent of Their Parents if they have any … Softly say for as much as you have thus Covenanted before God and these Witnesses I Pronounce You Lawfully Married man and Wife according to the Laws of this Government. Amen. A

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