Text of Marriage certificate for
Emanuel Kinnard and Mary Brown (Deall)
June, 4, 1779

Whereas Emanuel Kinard of the manor of moorland in the county of Philadelphia & Province of Pennsylvania son of Joseph Kinard late of the same place deceased & Mary Brown of the same place daughter of Samuel Deal late of Trentown in the province of New Jersey deceased having declared their intentions of marriage with each other before several monthly meetings of the people called Quakers at Abington in the county afforsaid according to the good order usis among them & having consent of parents their said proposals was allowed of by the said meeting Now these are to certify whom it may concern that for the full accomplishing their said intentions on the fourth day of the sixth month in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & seventy nine. They the said Emanuel Kinard & Mary Brown appeared in a public meeting of the said people of Horsham in the county affordsaid and the said Emanuel Kinard taking the said Mary Brown by the hand did in a solemn manner openly declare that he took her the said Mary Brown to be his wife promising through divine assistance to be unto her a loving & faithful husband until death should separate them. & then & there in the same assembly of the said Mary Brown did in like manner declare that she took him the said Emanuel Kinard to be her husband promising through divine assistance to be unto him a loving & faithful wife until death should separate them. AND moreover they the said Emanuel Kinard & Mary Brown she according to the custom of marriage assuming the name of her husband as a further confirmation thereof did then & there to these presents set their hands & we whose names are here under also subscribe being present at the solemnization of this marriage & subscription have as witnesses thereunto set our hands the day & year above written.

Transcribed from original document 9/1/2001
by Duncan Rea Williams III