[Formerly the Newport Historical Magazine.]
July, 1885
Vol. 1, No. 6
Published by the Newport Historical Publishing Co., Newport, R. I., R. H. Tilley, Editor
Marriage Certificate of Job Shearman and Amy Spencer, Newport, R. I., June 1, 1732: — "Whereas Job Shearman, of Portsmouth, in the county of Newport, in the colony of Rhode Island, in New England, and Amy Spencer, of Newport, in the county and colony aforesaid, having declared their intentions of taking each other in marriage before two public meetings of the people called Quakers, on Rhoad [sic] Island, aforesaid, according to the good order used among them, whose said proceedings, after a deliberate consideration thereof, and appeared clear of all others; also having consent of parents and relations concerned, were allowed by the said meetings.
Now these are to certifie [sic] all whom it may concern, that for the full accomplishing of their said intentions, this first day of the fourth month called June, one thousand seven hundred and thirty-one, they, the said Job Shearman and Amy Spencer, appeared in an assembly of the aforesaid people at their meeting-house at Newport, aforesaid, and in a solemn manner he, the said Job Shearman, taking the said Amy Spencer by the hand, did openly declare as followeth:
John Wanton | Philip Wanton |
William Corker | John Stanton |
Clarke Rodman | John Casey |
Sam’ll Easton | Jos. Jacob |
Peleg Wood | David Richards |
William Wood | Sarah Jacob |
Benjamin Stanton | Naomi Marks |
William Borden | Benjamin Lawton |
John Proud | Anne Leach |
Thomas Leach | Mary Leach |
Elizabeth Shearman | Almy Buffam |
Hannah Fry | Katharine Rodman |
Walter Spencer | Benj. Spencer |
Benjamin Shearman | Grizzil Shearman |
Bridget Spencer | Caleb Shearman |
Abraham Shearman | Philip Shearman |
[Copied from the original, in possession of Rowland Sherman,
Esq., Newport,
R. I.]