Names Of Persons For Whom Marriage Licenses Were Issued By The Secretary Of The Province Of New York, Previous To 1784, (Paperback)

Names that stitched a colony together. A ledger of marriages in pre-Revolutionary New York. Small facts shape family stories. Drawn from licences issued by the Secretary of the Province prior to 1784, this marriage licence index gathers the recorded names of persons for whom licences were issued and brings together dispersed entries into a single, searchable early American records collection. For anyone engaged in family history research, the volume functions as a practical historical genealogy resource: a direct line into colonial marriage records and New York vital records that underpin studies of kinship, migration and social ties. As a genealogists' reference guide it serves as an ancestry verification tool for confirming lineages and resolving conflicts in genealogical evidence, while also offering historians a primary-source window onto pre-revolutionary marriages and daily life in 18th century New York. The terse entries reveal patterns where narrative accounts do not, and their presence in colonial America archives has shaped modern understandings of community structure and settlement. It is a practical tool for reducing dead ends in family research, steering researchers toward parish registers, court minutes and estate records that often confirm relationships. Its economy of form invites pattern recognition: surnames, migrating clusters and cross-county alliances emerge from the plain list. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike. Casual readers seeking human detail amid names and dates will be rewarded by the faint biographical outlines that appear; classic-literature collectors and connoisseurs of early printed sources will appreciate the edition as a cultural treasure and a collector's item. Useful to genealogists, local historians and librarians alike, this edition transforms a marriage licence index into an accessible companion for tracing early American ancestry and for anchoring scattered records to lives once lived.