Marriage license for Gaston Hall and Dido Howard from Talbot County, Georgia

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This is a marriage license between Gaston Hall and Dido Howard from 1866. It consists of a rectangular piece of paper with both pre-printed and handwritten text. Across the top margin is pre-printed text “Georgia” followed by a blank space with handwritten text “Talbot” and pre-printed text “County.” Further down the page pre-printed text reads “You are Hereby Authorized/ to Join” and in handwritten text “Gaston Hall (freedman and /Dido Howard (freedwoman).” This is followed by pre-printed text “In the Holy State of / MATRIMONY/ According to the Constitution and Laws of this State, and for which this shall be your/ sufficient License./ Given under my hand and Seal, this 18 [handwritten] day of Dec [handwritten] 1866 [handwritten]/ Marion Bethune [handwritten] Ordinary.” Two narrow horizontal lines divide the page into a separate section with pre-printed text and faded handwritten text.

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