African American Declarations of Marriages of 1800s Jessamine County, Kentucky (County Seat - Nicholasville) Transcribed and Contributed by Patsy Benton |
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The following declarations of marriage are the result of an act of the Kentucky Legislature dated February 14, 1866, which reads as follows, “All negroes and mulattos who have heretofore lived together and cohabited, and do now live together as husband and wife, shall be taken and held in law as legally married and the issue held as legitimate for all purposes: provided such person shall appear before a clerk of the County Court of their residence and declare that they have been and desire to continue living together as husband and wife, when, upon receipt of a fee of 50 cents, the clerk shall make a record of such declaration and for an additional fee of 25 cents shall furnish the parties with a certificate of said declaration. Said record or certificate shall be evidence of the existence of the marriage.” |
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| NAME | YEARS TOGETHER | DATE OF DECLARATION |
| Baker, Henry and Catharine | 19 | 24 Apr. 1874 |
| Ballard, William and Margaret | 7 | 26 May 1869 |
| Barkley, Henry and Mary Ann | 30 | 11 Nov. 1872 |
| Batchman, James and Miranda | 2 | 7 Jan. 1867 |
| Bell, Charles and Jane | 11 | 22 Apr. 1876 |
| Benman, Simen and Matilda | 8 | 19 May 1873 |
| Berry, Oliver and Rachal Washington | -- | -- |
| Bingham, James and Maria | 6 | 14 Sep. 1872 |
| Black, Willis and Mary Ann | 4 | 2 May 1868 |
| Bradshaw, Samuel and Frankie | 40 | 31 Mar. 1898 |
| Braudice, Samuel and Susan | 5 | 1 July 1872 |
| Britten, Doster and Mary | 5 | 10 Oct. 1867 |
| Brooks, Charles and Mary | 10 | 16 May 1870 |
| Brooks, Lewis and Lucinda | 15 | 21 Aug. 1869 |
| Brooks, Parker and Charlotte | 18 | 7 Aug. 1869 |
| Brown, Nelson and Margaret | 26 | 28 Apr. 1877 |
| Burdett, Gabriel and Lucinda | 13 | 18 Nov. 1868 |
| Burns, Levi and Paulina | 7 | 11 Mar. 1870 |
| Burnsides, Barnett and Malinda | 5 | 8 Feb. 1872 |
| Caldwell, Richard and Sallie | 48 | 16 Apr. 1878 |
| Campbell, Merriman and America | 16 | 31 June 1868 |
| Campbell, Horace and Malinda | 23 | 18 Sep. 1882 |
| Carter, Henry and Lucinda (formerly Smith) | 35 | 21 Nov. 1881 |
| Chinn, Milton and Charity | 22 | 19 Mar. 1877 |
| Claiborn, John and Rachel | 40 | 30 June 1866 |
| Clarke, John and Hulda | -- | 21 Aug. 1869 |
| Clarke, Nelson and Mary Ann | 18 | 16 Dec. 1869 |
| Clay, Ambrose and Hannah | 27 | 30 Sep. 1871 |
| Clay, Henry and Celia | 5 | 7 Jan. 1869 |
| Clay, Henry and Mary | 12 | 11 Aug. 1874 |
| Clay, John and Susan | 10 | 26 Sep. 1870 |
| Clay, Noah and Targus | 40 | 14 Mar. 1871 |
| Coleman, Strather and Sarilda | 15 | 19 Feb. 1874 |
| Combs, Ambrose and Henrietta | 12 | 31 May 1861 |
| Combs, Edmund and Polina | 20 | 16 May 1873 |
| Creer, Henry and Susan L. | 25 | 3 Apr. 1875 |
| Crockett, Edward and Frances | 10 | 16 May 1870 |
| Crowder, Milford and Martha | 8 | 14 Sep. 1872 |
| Curd, Benjamin and Mary | 13 | 12 Dec. 1870 |
| Davenport, Reuben and Malissa | 50 | 15 Apr. 1869 |
| Dennis, Robert and Ella | 1 | 25 Sep. 1866 |
| Diggs, Brooks and Emily | 22 | 7 July 1873 |
| Elkins, Moses and Ann | 17 | 26 May 1869 |
| Favors, Joseph and Susan | 15 | 2 Mar. 1875 |
| Favors, Levi and Easter McDowell | 40 | 17 May 1873 |
| Fields, Jesse and Betsie Lay | 17 | 14 May 1881 |
| Fields, Samuel and Phoebe | 38 | 13 Feb. 1869 |
| Fletcher, Horace and Maria | 31 | 1 Mar. 1875 |
| Fletcher, Pleasant and Maria | 5 | 14 Sep. 1872 |
| Foster, Bartlett and Rachel | 8 | 17 May 1873 |
| Fry, Green and Mary | 4 | 24 Aug. 1869 |
| Fry, Thomas and Eliza | 3 | 31 July 1867 |
| Gartner, John and Cisila | 25 | 26 June 1886 |
| Gates, Green and Sallie | 15 | 4 July 1870 |
| Glover, Christopher and Ann | 30 | 1 Apr. 1872 |
| Graves, Asa and Jane | 14 | 17 May 1873 |
| Graves, Moses and Eliza | 18 | 17 May 1873 |
| Gray, James and Lucinda | abt. 23 | 17 Apr. 1876 |
| Gray, Lewis and Mary | 19 | 21 Feb. 1873 |
| Gray, William and Ellen | 9 | 27 May 1874 |
| Grey, Smith and Johnie | 6 | 14 Jan. 1867 |
| Guy, Buford and Margaret | 30 | 10 May 1873 |
| Hansford, John and Nelly | 7 | 4 July 1870 |
| Harris, Edmund and Matilda | 14 | 18 Apr. 1870 |
| Hawkins, Jerry and Margaret | 24 | 18 Apr. 1870 |
| Hawkins, Harvey and Viney | 5 | 6 May 1869 |
| Hawkins, Milan and Elizabeth | 25 | 20 Sep. 1866 |
| Hayden, Washington and Mary | 21 | 6 Feb. 1869 |
| Hervey, George and Lucinda | 28 | 9 Aug. 1869 |
| Hightower, Thomas and Nancy (formerly Dowel) | 14 | 3 Nov. 1879 |
| Hill, Harry and Lizzie | 17 | 5 Apr. 1877 |
| Hill, Robert H. and Belle | 11 | 10 Oct. 1874 |
| Hix, Jordan and Manda | 18 | 17 May 1873 |
| Humphreys, James and Mary | 20 | 26 Sep. 1870 |
| Hunter, George and Harriett | 8 | 21 June 1867 |
| Hunter, Lafayette and Susan | 3 1/2 | 4 Mar. 1871 |
| Hunter, Wesley and Martha | 15 | 19 Feb. 1874 |
| Hutchinson, Abram and Emily | 5 | 1 Oct. 1870 |
| Jackson, Henry and Margaret | 10 | 25 Jan. 1876 |
| Jenkins, Joseph and Muranda | 20 | 7 Aug. 1869 |
| Johnson, Arthur and Caroline | 30 | 2 May 1877 |
| Johnson, John and Kittie | 11 | 7 Jan. 1867 |
| Johnson, William and Rachel | 20 | 27 Dec. 1867 |
| Jones, William and Jane | 23 | 5 July 1875 |
| Kennedy, Berley and Jane | 20 | 1 Dec. 1873 |
| Kennedy, George and Viney | 17 | 16 Mar. 1877 |
| Kimbo, Niel and Roseanna | 38 | 6 May 1873 |
| King, Miles and Sarah | 31 | 22 Feb. 1873 |
| King, Milo and Hannah | 21 | 20 Feb. 1869 |
| Lamb, Mansfield and Nancy | 20 | 5 Feb. 1870 |
| Lamb, Miegs and Fanny | 12 | 18 Nov. 1869 |
| Lewis, Courtney and Mary | 8 | 17 Sep. 1870 |
| Lewis, Jacob and Ellen | 13 | 8 Mar. 1873 |
| Lewis, James T. and Harriett | 18 | 26 July 1879 |
| Lewis, Nathan and Bettie Chrisman | 25 | 19 May 1881 |
| Logan, Hubbard and Liza | 16 | 10 Sep. 1869 |
| Lowry, Thomas and Eliza | 30 | 18 Apr. 1870 |
| McClair, Harry and Alice | 9 | 17 Nov. 1873 |
| McKabe, John and Sally | 50 | 8 May 1874 |
| Marks, George and Julia | 3 | 7 Jan. 1867 |
| Martin, Edmund and Anny | 22 | 22 Mar. 1867 |
| Mason, Otho and George Ann | 3 | 7 Jan. 1869 |
| Maxberry, John and Anna | 9 | 17 Mar. 1870 |
| Meeks, Daniel and Caroline | 30 | 21 Mar. 1873 |
| Miller, Reuben and Nancy | 20 | 8 May 1873 |
| Moore, Spencer and Josephine | 40 | 5 Sep. 1870 |
| Moses, Kirtis and Margaret | 14 | 3 Apr. 1875 |
| Ogle, Dudley and Martha Baker | 40 | 27 Apr. 1898 |
| Overstreet, Samuel and Louisa | 28 | 19 Oct. 1868 |
| Overstreet, William and Clarisa | 24 | 25 Dec. 1871 |
| Pack, Sam and Mary | 3 | 13 Feb. 1873 |
| Patterson, William and Margaret | 2 | 5 Sep. 1868 |
| Payne, Henry and Martha | 9 | 5 May 1869 |
| Payne, Henry and Susan | 15 | 4 Feb. 1867 |
| Payne, Moses and Sarah | 12 | 12 Mar. 1875 |
| Perkins, Jefferson and Jane | 23 | 9 Aug. 1869 |
| Phillips, Joseph and Amanda | 12 | 26 May 1877 |
| Porter, Charles and Susan | 11 | 4 Mar. 1876 |
| Porter, James and Winney | 14 | 26 Feb. 1870 |
| Prather, Samuel and Sally | 16 | 12 Aug. 1869 |
| Price, Moses and Nancy Jane | 11 | 5 May 1869 |
| Pue, Galvin and Maria | 9 | 24 May 1873 |
| Quincy, John and America | 10 | 12 June 1873 |
| Ranson, James and Mary | 17 | 24 June 1870 |
| Reed, Henry and Paulina | 4 | 5 May 1869 |
| Reed, Henry and Sallie | 4 | 12 May 1868 |
| Reed, John and Mary Ann | 35 | 14 Aug. 1869 |
| Robb, John and Lydia | 18 | 28 May 1866 |
| Robb, Samuel and Mary | 40 | 18 July 1876 |
| Robinson, Jack and Margaret | 18 | 15 Feb. 1869 |
| Sampson, Jefferson and Mary Jane | 30 | 3 Dec. 1877 |
| Saulter (Salter), James and Harriet | 34 | 18 Sep. 1869 |
| Saunders, Merriman and Milly | 40 | 15 Dec. 1879 |
| Seymore, Andrew and Elizabeth | 5 | 24 Apr. 1869 |
| Seymore, Charles and Nancy | 10 | 1 Feb. 1873 |
| Seymore, Nathaniel and Cyrilda | 30 | 12 Jan. 1867 |
| Seymore, William and Bettie | 10 | 11 Feb. 1875 |
| Slaughter, Armsted and Jude | 7 | 18 Apr. 1870 |
| Smith, Allen and Mary | 20 | 30 Dec. 1875 |
| Smith, Benjamin and Patsy | 31 | 5 May 1869 |
| Smith, Harvey and Mary | 14 | 22 July 1876 |
| Smith, Jacob and Hannah | 14 | 6 Aug. 1869 |
| Smith, Joe and Patsy | 5 | 7 Aug. 1869 |
| Smothers, Cary and Charlotte | 8 | 21 Aug. 1869 |
| Stevenson, Isaac and Martha | 30 | 23 Mar. 1878 |
| Stout, Randel and Mary | 23 | 20 Dec. 1873 |
| Stoball, Nathan and Betty | 21 | 26 May 1869 |
| Strange, Samuel and Harriet | 15 | 24 Feb. 1874 |
| Swift, Richard and Cyntha | 12 | 20 Nov. 1869 |
| Taylor, David and Celia | 11 | 1 Oct. 1873 |
| Taylor, Joseph and Elizabeth | 17 | 1 May 1871 |
| Taylor, Peter and Henrietta | 8 | 11 July 1866 |
| Taylor, Vinson and Harriet | 10 | 21 Feb. 1874 |
| Taylor, William and Bettie | 14 | 4 Sep. 1869 |
| Thomas, Clarke and Easter | 35 | 5 Nov. 1879 |
| Thompson, Lewis and Malinda | 15 | 23 Aug. 1873 |
| Tisdale, Benjamin and Ellen | 2 | 8 Mar. 1867 |
| Tracy, John and Julia Ann | 13 | 12 May 1871 |
| Tracy, Stephen and Margaret | -- | -- |
| Trimble, Anderson and Lucy | 10 | 9 Oct. 1869 |
| Tyler, Martin and Maria | 27 | 31 Aug. 1875 |
| Vaughn, George and Delila | 15 | 25 Mar. 1872 |
| Vaughn, William and Eliza Jane | 23 | 5 Nov. 1886 |
| Vinegar, John and Harriett | 10 | 13 Apr. 1875 |
| Wake, Marshall and Mary | 20 | 10 July 1875 |
| Wake, Spencer and Sarah | 8 | 29 May 1869 |
| Walker, Alexander and Susan | 6 | 3 June 1869 |
| Walker, George and Mary | 10 | 31 July 1875 |
| Walker, Isaah and Emily | 2 | 14 Sep. 1872 |
| Walker, Merriman and Sallie | 15 | 23 Mar. 1874 |
| Walker, Sidney and Asten | 6 | 22 Aug. 1871 |
| Walker, Squire and Harriett | 3 | 17 Aug. 1868 |
| Walker, Stephen and Harriet | 26 | 30 Jan. 1869 |
| Walker, Woodson and Celia Ann | 10 | 5 Feb. 1869 |
| Wallace, Aleck and Mildred | 27 | 10 May 1873 |
| Watters, Stuart and Annie | 30 | 25 Mar. 1871 |
| Watts, Cupit and Amanda | 17 | 14 May 1874 |
| Wearen (Warren), Henry and Ellen | 4 | 22 Oct. 1869 |
| Wells, Levi and Eliza | 7 | 8 May 1873 |
| West, George and Luvina | 9 | 25 July 1874 |
| West, Henry and Eddie | 20 | 1 July 1871 |
| Wheeler, George and Lucy | 8 | 24 Feb. 1874 |
| White, Edmund and Jane | 8 | 14 Sep. 1872 |
| White, Thomas and Eliza Ann | 18 | 31 July 1875 |
| Williams, Charles and Harriett | 25 | 24 July 1875 |
| Williams, Fred and Ellen | 15 | 27 Sep. 1873 |
| Williams, Henry and Susan | 12 | 16 Feb. 1874 |
| Williams, James and Viney | 6 | 26 Mar. 1869 |
| Williams, Jerry and Mahalia | 25 | 19 Apr. 1878 |
| Williams, Meriot and Mary | 7 | 6 Sep. 1870 |
| Williams, Milton and Charlotte (late Todd) | 12 | 29 Aug. 1868 |
| Williams, Moses and Polly | 40 | 25 Sep. 1869 |
| Williams, Peter and Adaline | 20 | 4 July 1870 |
| Williams, Peter and Mary | 4 | 4 July 1870 |
| Williams, Peter and Mary R. | 16 | 8 Jan. 1876 |
| Williams, Samuel and Harinda | 35 | 26 Sep. 1870 |
| Williamson, Cary and Selvy | 15 | 11 May 1872 |
| Willoughby, John and Malinda | 24 | 20 Dec. 1875 |
| Wilson, Alexander and Lucinda | 19 | 27 Mar. 1869 |
| Wilson, Charles Henry and Eliza Williams | -- | -- |
| Woods, Brent and Mary | 20 | 28 Oct. 1876 |
| Woods, Samuel and Louisa | 16 | 2 Aug. 1875 |
| Woolfolk, Albert and Almira | 30 | 20 Aug. 1867 |
| Woolfolk, William and Susan | 15 | 26 Jan. 1867 |
| Wright, Jacob and Louisa | 4 | 24 Apr. 1869 |
| Wyatt, George and Amanda | 30 | 5 July 1873 |
| Young, Hary and Juda | 20 | 11 June 1866 |
| Young, Laurence and Eliza | 23 | 14 Feb. 1876 |