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From: "Howard Swain" <>
Subject: Re: [D-Col] Re: NA/NY RDC marriage records and practices
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 15:34:03 -0800


Hi Ted,

From: <>
Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 11:55 AM


> In a message dated 12/4/2002 12:10:54 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> writes:
>
> Howard,
> Excellent synthesis of previous discussions here; thank you. Your points are
> all very well made. I have a couple of comments (when do I not?), though.
>
> I believe the references to "married with a license" (getrouwt met een
> licentie) refers not so much to where the ceremony was performed or by whom,
> as the use of the license as a substitute for the traditional "uitroepinge"
> or proclamation of the banns in church.

I agree. I might add that this licnese, then, is different from the "certificate" that
they seemed to get if the banns were one place and the marriage another.

> One sees somewhat the same kind of thing with the Flatbush records: quite a
> number of events from the other Dutch villages were recorded in the Flatbush
> RDC books, presumably because the dominee was riding a circuit.

Yes, absolutely. And we are lucky to have now the new Voorhees transcription
which shows that the original record many times did identify the town where the marriage
or baptism was performed.

Regards,
Howard


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