James Baker to Nancy Hite, Marriage License
James Baker
TO SS:
Nancy Hite
Be it Remembered, That on this 1st day of January, A.D. 1850, the following Marriage License was issued, to-wit:
State of Indiana, Morgan County, ss:
TO ANY PERSON EMPOWERED BY LAW TO SOLEMNIZE MARRIAGES, GREETING:
You are hereby authorized to join together as Husband and Wife, James Baker and Nancy Hite, and of this, together with your Certificate of Marriage, make due return, within three months, according to the Laws of the State of Indiana.
Witness, James Jackson, Clerk of our said Morgan Circuit Court, and the Seal thereof, affixed at the Clerk's Office in Martinsville, Indiana, this 1st day of January 1850.
[Signature] James Jackson
Clerk of Morgan Circuit Court
Be it Further Remembered, That on this 4th day of January, A.D. 1850, the following Certificate was filed in my office, to-wit:
State of Indiana, Morgan County, ss:
I, Perry M. Blankenship, hereby certify that on the 3rd day of January A.D. 1850, I duly joined in Marriage James Baker and Nancy Hite by authority of Law, and a License from the Clerk of the Morgan Circuit Court.
Given under my hand, this [blank] day of [blank], 18[blank]
[Signature] P. M. Blankenship M. G.
Source: Morgan County, Indiana, Morgan County Marriages, p. 486
Transcription by John C. Hepner, 1999