Haverford MonthlyMeeting*
WHEREAS Cadwalader Morris of Gwynedd in the County of Philadelphia and Elisbeth Morgan of the same Place having declared their Intentions of Marriage with each other before severall Monthly Meetings of the people Quakers according to the good Order Used among them whose Proceedings therein after a deliberate Consideration thereof and having consent of Parents and Relations concerned were Permited by the sayd Meetings. NOW these are to Certifie all whom it may concern that for the full accomplishing of their sayd Intentions this 24th day of the 3 month 1710 the sayd Caddr Morris and Eliza: Morgan appeared in a publick Meeting of the sayd People at their Publick Meeting Place at Gwynedd afforesayd and the sayd Cadr Morris taking the sayd Eliza: Morgan by the hand in Solemn Manner Openly declare that he took her to be his wife Promising with Gods assistance to be unto her a ffaithfull & loving Husband Untill Death should separate them and then and there in the sayd assembly the sayd Eliza Morgan did in like Manner declare that she took the sayd Caddr Morris to be her Husband Promising with Gods assistance to be unto him a faithfull and Loving Wife Untill death should separate them & Moreover the sayd Caddr & Eliza: she according to the Custome of Marriage assuming the Name of her Husband as a further Confirmation thereof did then and there to these Presents sett their hands and we whose names are underwritten being among others Present at ye Solemnization of the sd Marriage and subscription in manner aforesayd as witnesses thereunto have also to these Prsents sett our hands the day and year above written.
Cadwalader Morris | ||
Cathrine Edward | Ellis Pugh | Elizabeth Morris |
Eliza: Morgan | Jno Pugh | |
Margt Morgan | Robt Jones | Alex: Edwards |
Mary William | John Humphrey | Edd Morgan |
Bridget Griffith | Hugh Evans | Hugh Griffith |
Catherine Griffith | Evan Griffith | John Williams |
Mary Pugh | Edd ffoulke | Wm Morgan |
Anne Evan | Jno William | John Morgan |
Jane Evan | Jno Robert | Morgan Morgan |
Ellin Hugh | Jno Bevan | Wm Jones |
Gainor Humphrey | Evan Jones | Dad Pugh |
Gainor Jones | Evan Griffith |
*The meeting at Gwynedd was under the care of Haverford Monthly Meeting until 1714 when Gwynedd Monthly Meeting was established by Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting out of Haverford Monthly Meeting. Built of logs in 1700, the meeting house where Elizabeth Morgan and Cadwalader Morris were married was the first in Gwynedd.