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Arlington County (Va.) Record of Ministers' Certificates, 1801-1850

Arlington County (Va.) Circuit Court.

Arlington County (Va.) Record of Ministers' Certificates, 1801-1850, records the returns made by individual ministers performed within the county and the District of Columbia. Some returns in this volume take the form of registers which record the date when the marriage was solemnized, the parties names, when married and by whom. Later, these registers also indicate the date of the marriage license. Other returns in this volume are in the form of lists which record when the parties were married, the names of the parties, the minister's name and denomination. Along with these returns, the ministers' filed marriage certificates with the county clerk. These signed documents certified that a minister had performed the actual marriage ceremony between the named individuals on a certain date. Marriages between free blacks or free persons of color are noted between 1808-1822 and 1841-1848. All pages in this volume are unnumbered.

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