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Search the \u003cextref type=\"simple\" href=\"http://www.lva.virginia.gov/whatwehave/local/lost/\"\u003eLost Records Localities Database\u003c/extref\u003e found at the Library of Virginia's web site.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Material\n","Related Material\n","Related Material\n"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["These volumes are located at the State Records Center.  Contact Archives Research Services for access information, directions and hours.\n","Additional Mecklenburg County Marriage Records can be found on microfilm at the Library of Virginia.  Consult  \"A Guide to Virginia County and City Records on Microfilm.\"","Mecklenburg County is one of Virginia's Lost Records Localities. Additional Mecklenburg County Court Records may be found in the Virginia Lost Records Localities Collection at the Library of Virginia. Search the  Lost Records Localities Database  found at the Library of Virginia's web site.\n"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMecklenburg County (Va.) Ministers' Returns, Marriage Licneses and Index, 1785-1842, records the returns made by individual ministers of marriages performed within the county.  Whether single or in the form of lists, these returns record the date of the marriage and the names of both parties.  Single returns mentioned the location of the marriage and sometimes the minister's denomination.  This volume also contains marriage licenses prepared by the county clerk and presented to the minister who would perform the ceremony.  These signed documents \"authorized and licensed\" or \"licensed and permitted\" the ministers to perform the actual marriage ceremonies.  The license indicated to the minister and the public that there were no impediments to the marriage.  These licenses were intermixed with the ministers' returns from 1832-1842 (pages 105-164.)  There are some interesting notes found in the back of the volume.  On page 27, there is a record of a marriage (1799) between slaves Thomas and Mary owned by Sir Peyton Skipwith.  Page 47 records the marriage (1811) between Thomas Hill \u0026amp; Fanny R. Baptist, the parents of notable Confederate General A. P. Hill.  In 1822, page 76, is a marriage of free coloured persons William Kersey and Margaret Ivey.  \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn addition to this volume, a separate, handwritten index was created. This index is organized alphabetically A-Y, by the groom's surname, according to the order of the page numbers in the volume. A separate, typescript index was compiled by the Circuit Court clerk, N.G. Hutcheson, in 1939. This index incorporates all the information from the handwritten index with a few additions and corrections. There are some marriage bonds and licenses listed under the groom's surname and recorded from 1823-1852. 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