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From: Bud Dorr <>
Subject: Re: TMG-L: "Int" in Marriage
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 09:19:43 -0500

You are quite right, Bob. I was looking through microfilm of the Kingfield,
Maine town clerk's ledger book (1816-1850) and there are all sorts of entries in
it from payments to the town poor to marriages that have already occurred
between Kingfield residents and out of towners to intentions between townies.
Any resemblance to a real marriage date are purely coincidental. :^}
Occasionally, it is not clear if the marriage occurred in Kingfield or somewhere
else. It is even not certain if the entry is an intention or a report of a
marriage that previously occurred, if the clerk used fancy, stilted language.
Sometimes the actual marriage dates and the intentions are several months apart.
I've found intentions in more than one town...for the same couple. It really
gives my sources and memos a good workout. :^}

bob gillis wrote:
>
> I don't know when a "Marriage License" was issued but I doubt before
> ~1840 when new regulations went into effect. Paper was too valuable.
> And the number of intentions that resulted in children etc. ,ie the
> marraige never got recorded, makes it appear the process was verbal.
> The intentions were published but probably on a broadsheet on the town
> hall and churches.
>
> bob gillis
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