Transcription of Religious Societies, Part 2, Pages 1-25

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1. {Samuel Lorah}
2. At a Court of Common Pleas
3. begun and held at the Court house
4. in the town of Finley within and
5. for the county of Hancock and
6. State of Ohio on this second day
7. of November in the year of our
8. Lord one thousand eight hundred
9. and fourty seven Present the Hon.
10. P G Goode Resident Judge
11. Wm Rollen John Ewing and Mordecai
12. Hammond Esq. Associate Judge of
13. said Court.
14. In the Record of the proceeding
15. of said court among other things
16. the following order to wit
17. License to marry
18. on motion to the
19. Court and is appearing
20. to the satisfaction of the
21. Court that William H Suly
22. is a regular ordained minister
23. of the Gospel of the denomination
24. usually called Methodist Episcopal
25. Church. It is ordered that a
26. License be granted to him to
27. solemnize marriages within
28. this state solong as he shall
29. continue such Regular minister
30. The State of Ohio } I William L Hen-
31. Hancock County } derson Clerk of
32. the Court of the Court of Common
33. Pleas of the County aforesaid certify
34. that the foregoing order is truly copied
35. from the minutes as recorded on the
36. of the Journal of said Court of the
37. term thereof in testimony whereof
38. I have hereunto set my hand &
39. seal of said Court ______
40. ___ the year of our Lord one
41. thousand eight hundred and
42. fourty seven Wm L Henderson