a copy of
Sam Bell
and
Esther Winter
marriage certificate
Sam Bell
of Feering in the county of Essex husbandman son of
Thos Bell
late of Felsted deceased in the said county and
Esther Winter
daughter of
Jn Winter
late of Saffron Walden in the county of Essex deceased having declared their intentions of taking each other in marriage before several public meetings of the people of god called quakers in Coggeshall and Halsted in the county of Essex according to the good order used among them whose proceedings therein after a deliberate consideration thereof with regard to the righteous law of god and example of his people recorded in the scriptures of truth in that case were approved of by the said meetings they appearing clear of all others and having consent of parents and all persons concerned now these are to certify all whom it may concern that for the full accomplishing of their said intentions this
1.10.1702
they the said
Sam Bell
and
Esther Winter
appeared in a public assembly of the aforesaid people and others met together in their public meeting place in Coggeshall aforesaid and in a solemn manner he the said
Sam Bell
taking the said
Esther Winter
by the hand did openly declare as followeth viz friends and neighbours I
Sam Bell
desire you to be my witnesses that I do in the fear of the lord take this my most esteemed friend
Esther Winter
to be my wife promising to be a true and faithful husband unto her until it please god to separate us by death and then and there in the said assembly the said
Esther Winter
did in like manner declare as followeth friends and neighbours you are my witnesses that I
Esther Winter
in the fear of the lord do take this my most esteemed friend
Sam Bell
to be my husband and I do promise to be a true and faithful wife unto him until it shall please god to separate us by death and the said
Sam Bell
and
Esther Winter
as a further confirmation thereof did then and there to these presents set their hands and we whose names hereunder subscribed being present among others at the solemnizing of their said marriage and subscription in manner aforesaid as witnesses hereunto have also to these presents subscribed our names the day and year above written the mark of
Sam Bell
Esther Winter
Thos Upsher
Andrew Hills
Robt Ludgater
Robt Everidg
Edm Raven
jun
Jn Ludgater
Isaac Ludgater
Jn Adey
Jn Ludgater
jun
Jas Allen
Jn Browne
Wm Ludgater
Sam Clarke
Robt Ludgater
jun
Francis Garritt
Sam Land
Robt Sach
Jn Hawkings
Rich Adey
Xoph Hownell
Wm Clay
Wm King
Wm Stacie
Robt Seabrooke
Rich Miles
Math Dello
Robt Strut
Wm Cooke
Isaac Anthony
Jas Blewett
Sam Searles
Wm Mast
Jas Emson
Abrm Bell
Hen Smith
Eliz
Sarah Bundock
Eliz Bell
Mary Bell
Eliz Cornell
Hannah Blewett
Mary Adey
Hannah Adey
Sarah Ludgater
Sarah Ludgater
jun
Eliz Pemberton
Ann Cooke
Eliz Strut
Sarah Burnett
Mary Wood
Mary Browning