Hand Lettered Marriage License For William K Henry And Louisa M Atkinson Adams County State Of

$300 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

Natchez, Mississippi: 1846 . Single sheet, folded to 25 x 20 cm. 1 pp. of text, internal pages blank, docketed on the fourth page. Old fold lines else a very nice example. A neatly calligraphic document, the marriage license, State of Mississippi, Adams County, to any Judge, Minister, or Justice, lawfully authorized to celebrate the Rites of Matrimony, is on the upper two- thirds of the page decorated with two small hand colored doves, and hand lettered text within a border of colored

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