Madison County, IL Marriages

First Marriage License  in Madison County

The first marriage license found among the sixth issued, and reads as follows the records was Illinois Territory, Madison County. ) " The Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas nf Madison County, To all who shall see these present-, grettlug. Know ye that license and permission is hereby given unto any Judge of the General Court of the Illinois Territory, and any Judge of the Court of drnmon Pleas, Justice of the Peace, or Licensed Minister of any Religious Society in the County of Madison, to join together in matrimony, as man and wife, Daniel G. Moor, gentleman, and Miss Frankey Jarvis, both of this county, according to the usage, custom, and the laws of the territory, and for so doing this shall be their sufficient license or warrant. In testimony Avhereof, I, Josias Randle, Clerk of the Court, have hereunto set ray hand and (the county not yet having provided one) affixed my own private seal, at my office, this 21st day of June, in the year of our Lord, 1813, and of our Independence the Thirty-seventh. Seal  Josias Randle, C. C. C. P.

Lawrence Cain m. Margaret Dempsey on 16 Feb 1858 in Alton, Madison Co IL w Montgomery Co license - Marriage Book 5 #1775