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have been in each of said towns,
& they requesting to be now joined in
wedlock; it is therefore considered by
me the said Justice that they be joined ac-
cordingly, & I do declare them to be
husband & wife according to the laws
of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

James Winthrop {Justice of the Peace}
testified to Town Clerk 27 May 1794

Middlesex Sc. Be it remembered, that on
the third day of July in the year of our
Lord One Thousand seven hundred &
Ninety five, Levi Drinkwater master &
Joseph Stadeford or Sturtevant mariner
of a coasting sloop reputed to belong to the
President & Fellows of Harvard College
are brought before me which sloop now
lies at the wharf of William Winthrop
Esquire of Cambridge in said County,
are brought before me James Winthrop