Download or read book Names of Persons for Whom Marriage Licenses Were Issued by the Secretary of the Province of New York, Previous to 1784 (Classic Reprint) written by New York and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-26 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Names of Persons for Whom Marriage Licenses Were Issued by the Secretary of the Province of New York, Previous to 1784 The origin of Marriage Licenses, in the territory com prised within the State of New York, merits a word or two of explanation. Under the roman-dutch law, which obtained in New Netherland on its first colonization, the following partien lars were requisite to constitute a legal marriage. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.