Quaker Marriage: Certificates Evans-Morgan, Montgomery County, 1833

QUAKER MARRIAGE: CERTIFICATES EVANS-MORC.AN, MONTGOMERY COUNTY, 1833' Guests attending Quaker marriages sign as witnesses (even non-Quakers), with near relatives generally signing in the rightmost column, the parents signing first. Original certificates provide a rare source for the signatures of women. Whereas Charles Evans of the Township of Gwynedd in the County of Montgom¬ ery' and State of Pennsylvania son of Nathan Evans late of the said Township of Gwynedd deceased and Ann his wife and Mary Morgan daughter of Benjamin Morgan of Whitpain Township in the County of Montgomery aforesaid and Tacy his wife having communicated their intentions of Marriage with each other, to a Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends held at Plymouth in the said County of Montgomery, according to the good order used among them and hav¬ ing consent of surviving Parents and Friends concerned their said proposal of Marriage was allowed of by the said MeetingNow these are to Certify whom it may concern That for the full accomplishment of their said intentions this Twelfth day of the Third Month in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three, they the said Charles Evans and Mary Morgan appeared in a public Meeting of the said People held in their Meeting House at Gwynedd aforesaid and the said Charles Evans taking the said Mary Morgan by the hand, did on this solemn occasion openly declare that he took her the said Mary Morgan to be his wife promising with Divine Assistance to be unto her a loving and faithful Husband until Death should separate them; and then in the same Assembly the said Mary Morgan did in like manner declare that she took him the said Charles Evans to be her Husband, promising with Divine Assistance to be unto him a loving and faithful Wife until Death should separate them/ And moreover they the said Charles Evans and Mary Morgan (she accord¬ ing to the custom of Marriage assuming the name of her Hushand|)j did as a fur¬ ther confirmation thereof then and there to these presents set their Hands— And We, whose names are hereunto subscribed being present at the Solemnization of the said Marriage and Subscription have as witnesses thereto set our Hands the Day and Year above written Charles Evans Mary' M. Evans This original certificate is in the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania Bible rec¬ ords collection. Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Vol. 46 (20 1 0) 219 220 Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Vol. 46 [first/leftmost column] Evan Jones, Jesse l.ukens, Cadw'r Roberts, Hugh Foulke, Caleb Evans, George Luken, Thomas Adamson, Salathiel Cleaver, Mary Cleaver Ju’r, Elias Cleaver, John L Jones [second column] Joseph Foulke, Nathan Cleaver, I) Thomas, Sarah Thomas, Jesse Shoemaker, George Jones, Jane D Jones, Ann Cleaver, Elizabeth Adamson, Elizabeth Foulke, Joseph Zorns, Charles T Zorns, Samuel l.ukens, Mary l.ukens [third column] Edward Ambler, Tacy Cleaver, Eleanor Fcrman, Ezekiel Shoe¬ maker, Ellin Shoemaker, John Shoemaker, Elizabeth L Shoemaker, Joseph Shoe¬ maker, Thomas Foulke, Jesse II West, Samuel Moore, William Evans, Job Roberts, Thomas R Walker [ fourth column] Ann Morgan, Amelia Ann Morgan, Antrim F Morgan, Benjamin Ambler, Jonathan ( am rad [fifth/rightmost column: relatives ] Benj’n Morgan, Tacy Morgan, Ann Evans, Edmund Evans, Jno. R. Morgan, Benj'nt Morgan Jr., Charles Morgan, Tacy S Morgan, Joseph Shoemaker, I’hebe Shoemaker, Thomas Evans, John Ambler, Martha McDowell, Hannah Eaton, Hannah 1) Freston [ Note on hack of certificate] Recorded in volume 2nd page 185 of the Book belonging to Gwynedd Monthly Meeting kept for Recording of Marriage Certifi¬ cates by John Wilson Recorder ADDI TIONS AND CORRECTIONS 46:125. (“The Arent Sonmans Family: Peter Wright’s 1769 “Proof of Pedigree” in Philadelphia Deeds”). Add: Peter2 Sonmans was naturalized 20 February 1694/5 in London: “Peter Sonmans, born at Rotterdam, son of Arent Sonmans and Agnieta Van Rysoort, his wife.” He is called of Lon¬ don, merchant, on the certificate.1 Examination of the microfilm for Christ Church, Philadelphia,2 has resolved the conflicts between the published and online versions of events incorporated in “Glentworth-Wilson Additions and Corrections," 46(2009):128-31. 46:127. Hethia Willson, baptized 4 September 1715, married 8 January 1736/7 Peter Sonmans. 46:128. Mary Willson, born 26 January 1717/8, baptized 12 February. 46:129. Peter Sonmans (ilentworth married second 21 May 1795. 1 William A. Shaw, “Letters of Denization and Acts of Naturalization for Aliens in England, 1 509 1800" in Publications of the Huguenot Society of London, Quarto Series, 58 volumes, 18( 191 1 ):237-38. 2 FHL #1,490,578.