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Early Virginia Religious
Petitions
June 3, 1782, District of Kentucky, Due to shortage of ministers,
to declare marriages already performed by civil officers legal.
To the Honorable the Representatives
of the Freemen
of the Commonwealth of Virginia in General Assembly met.
The
Representation and Petition of our numbers of Inhabitants
of the Frontiers on the Western Waters Humbley shewth
that your petitioners being settled in that large
extensice Country, and by reason of the present war have
been oblig'd to make their respective settlements at
considerable distance from each other on which account
and the want of Ministers of the Gospel amonst them, some
of the Magistrates and principal inhabitants of the
Country have ( after the reason of Pennsylvania and other
states ) at diver times undertaken though (nessfsity of
the case ) to celebrate marriages in different parts of
the Country which marriages as the Law now stands are
declared to be illegal by reason whereas much contention
may arise amongst the people and tend to heart of the
ifsue of such marriages unlefs some remedy is provided
for the same
Your
Petitioners therefore pray that such marriages as have
been celebrated in the aforesaid form, mabe be declared
good and valid inlaw.
And
your Petitioners as in duly bound will ever pray
Louisville,
Jefferson County April 2 ~1782
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| JoT M
Keap? (Kemp? ) |
John Cline |
| do-Vaseady cos |
John Hume |
| John Williamsom |
James Q
?Zirtermous |
| James Hoagland |
John Handley |
| George Conery |
George ?Crearenson |
| James Galloway |
Arthur Parks |
| John Vorhees |
W. Pope |
| Merith Price |
Daniel Sullivan |
| Ben Tope |
Leon Helm |
| Isaac Keller |
T.S. Archer |
| John ?Tuede |
Samuel Wells |
| Thos Curry |
Robert Tyler |
| Thos
M Clark |
Ric'd ?Chinquith |
| William Galloway |
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