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Augusta County (Va.) Marriage Licenses and Ministers' Returns, Volumes 1-4, 1785-1853

Ministers' Returns, Volume 1, 1785-1820, records the returns made by individual ministers of marriages performed within the county. Some returns took the form of lists which record the date of marriage and names of both parties. Other returns took the form of registers which record the date of marriage, the names of both parties and by what authority married--a license or "by publication"(also known as marriage banns.) Marriage Banns, published in the parish church where the couple lived, constituted a legal substitute for a marriage license prior to 1848. Volumes 2-4, 1820-1853, record marriage licenses as well as ministers' returns.

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Augusta County (Va.) Marriage Licenses and Ministers' Returns, Volumes 1-4, 1785-1853

Ministers' Returns, Volume 1, 1785-1820, records the returns made by individual ministers of marriages performed within the county. Some returns took the form of lists which record the date of marriage and names of both parties. Other returns took the form of registers which record the date of marriage, the names of both parties and by what authority married--a license or "by publication"(also known as marriage banns.) Marriage Banns, published in the parish church where the couple lived, constituted a legal substitute for a marriage license prior to 1848. Volumes 2-4, 1820-1853, record marriage licenses as well as ministers' returns.

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