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Lancaster County (Va.) Ministers' Returns, 1782-1852

Lancaster County (Va.) Circuit Court.

Lancaster County (Va.) Ministers' Returns, 1782-1852, records the original returns made by individual ministers of marriages performed within the county. The majority of these original returns are in the form of lists which record the date of marriage and the names of both parties. In the process of preparing and sending the returns, the name of the minsiter and the minister's denomination are also recorded. Once these items were transferred into the Library's archival collection, the staff numbered each return individually from 3062 to 3162 and the collection has now been processed into 2 folders, 1782-1820 and 1822-1852. In addition, there are a few marriage licenses (1800, 1822) and a ministers' bond (1810) found in and amongst these original returns. There are no listings in the returns for marriages in 1783, 1788, 1821, 1823 and 1824.

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