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Lot Number: 140
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1801 Methodist Minister Puts Up a $1,500 Current Money Bond to State of Virginia Governor James Monroe (Future President) to Officially and Legally be Allowed to Perform “Acts of Marriage” and Not to Perform Unlawful Marriages such as are Incestuous, Forcible, or Bigamous.” |
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September 28, 1801-Dated Federal Period, Manuscript Document, in which Joseph Dunn, a Methodist Minister and his two Sureties Post a Bond with Virginia Governor James Monroe for his Legally Performing the Acts of Marriage, Fine or better. Important Church and State content Manuscript Document is 1 page, measuring 7.5" x 12", partial centerfold splits, being written at Bedford County, Virginia is Signed by “Joseph Dunn”, a Methodist Minister, and by “Samuel Wilks”, and “Boyce Eidson”, in which they agree to be bound in the sum of $1,500 Current Money, to Virginia Governor (Future President) James Monroe, then the current Governor of Virginia, to guarantee the Legal Performance of Marriages by the Reverend Dunn, and not to perform Unlawful Marriages such as are incestuous, forcible, or bigamous. This remarkable religious Church and State related Federal Period Document reads, in full: "Know all men by these presents that we Joseph Dunn & Saml. Wilks & Boyce Eidson --- are held and firmly bound unto James Monroe Esquire, Governor or Chief Magistrate of the State of Virginia in the sum of fifteen hundred dollars current money to which payment well & truly to be made to the said James Monroe - or to his successors, we bind ourselves and each of us and each of our heirs, Executors & Administrators jointly & severally firmly by these presents sealed with our seals and dated this 28th day of Sept. 1801. The condition of the above obligation is such that whereas the above bound Joseph Dunn hath produced in open Court credentials of his ordination as a minister and also of his being in regular communion with the Methodist Church, of which he is a member, now if the said Joseph Dunn shall truly & legally perform the acts of marriage between any persons in this State who agreeable to an act of Assembly passed the 22nd of December 1792 entitled an act to regulate the solemnization of marriages, prohibiting such as are incestuous or otherwise unlawful, to permit forcible or stolen marriages and for the punishment of the crime of Bigamy, shall produce a marriage license directed to any authorized minister of the Gospel then this obligation to be void or else to remain in full force." Written in rich brown on clean even in tone laid period paper, easily readable with exceptional content for the early Federal period in American history. |
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Lot Number: 140
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