Marriage Records: New Castle County, Delaware: List of Marriages performed by the Rev. John Patton, principally in Middletown, DE, 1858 - 1883 Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Judy Longley ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgenwebarchives.org ************************************************************************ INTRODUCTION This is an extract from the Rev. Patton's marriage register in possession of the transcriber, Judy Longley. The Rev. Patton's record begins in the 1830s in Lancaster, PA; from there he went to Philadelphia; the last entry there when he seems to have had a congregation was in February 1865. Two earlier entries include a resident of DE; these are added in chronological order. This transcript is chronologically arranged in order as given in the register, although I have rearranged it to give the date first. Use your browser's search to find surnames of interest. Check for spelling variants, since the spelling is the minister's own. For example, "Cahill" might appear as "Kale" or "Cail". This register is of particular genealogical help because he gives place of residence of both bride and groom. There are a few entries below for people residing outside Newcastle Co., DE. Whether the marriage took place in DE, in Philadelphia or elsewhere is not recorded by the Rev. Patton; I left them in this listing because the couple might well have been married in Middletown, DE. The Rev. Patton also included a "remarks" column in which he made memoranda to himself, and usually a notation as to the fee collected. I have omitted the fee except where no charge was entered. The Rev. Patton recorded whether he believed the bride and/or groom was "colored". In the actual register, the Rev. Patton makes the entry after each person's name; to save space the transcriber has added in brackets whether he made the entry for either or both of the celebrants, and put this item at the end of the line. In these instances he does not give the honorifics "Mr.," "Miss," or "Mrs." In a few entries he omits the honorific but does not state his belief as to whether the parties were "colored". In instances where only one party was called "colored," the Rev. Patton omits the honorific title for both persons. The order of listing that follows is date of marriage, name of groom, residence of groom, name of bride, residence of bride, and Rev. Patton's remarks. 1858 June 17...Mr. Lewis Hamilton...Bristol Connt....Miss Hannah Ann Groff...St. Georges Del 1861 Septr 17...Mr. William Haslam...Phila Pa...Miss Edith Jane Groff...St. Georges Del 1865 June 1st...Mr. William Green...Cecil County Maryland...Miss Eliza Cochran...L. Middletown Del 1865 Septr 20...Mr. George Vincent Reynolds...Newcastle County Del...Miss Cora Penington...Middletown Del 1865 Octr 15...Stephen Polk...Townsend Del...Emiline Allen...Townsend Del...[both] Colored 1865 Nov 29...Major Alexr Wilson McClure...Chicago, Ill...Miss Jeannie Watson Patton...Middletown Del...Daughter of Officiating Minister 1866 March 22...Mr. J. F. Croft...Odessa Del...Miss Eliza J. Dunithan...Odessa Del 1866 Aug 29...Mr. Wm T. Stichberry...Talbot Co Md...Miss Anna R. Boulden...Talbot Co Md 1866 Nov 7...Mr. Franklin W. Leauby...Middletown Del...Anne Randell...Middletown Del... 1867 March 19...Mr John H. Rash...Smyrna Del...Mrs. Mary Tyson...Odessa Del 1867 March 21...Benjamin Empson...Middletown Del...Abbie Fulman...Middletown Del...[both] Colored 1867 April 28...William Johnson...Middletown Del...Emma Duval...Middletown Del...[both] Colored 1867 May 12...John Lloyd...Middletown Del...Alice Caulk...Middletown Del...[both] Colored 1867 May 22...George Frisby...Middletown Del...Sarah Dukal...Middletown Del...[both] Colored 1867 June 26...Mr. Joseph L. Gibson...Odessa Del...Miss M. Louisa Derrickson...Middletown Del 1867 July 7...Charles Alexander...Middletown Del...Martha Harris...Middletown Del...[both] Colored 1867 July 18...Henry Williams...Middletown Del...Lizzie Brice...Middletown Del...[both] Colored 1867 Sep. 29...Mr. John A. McKee...Middletown Del...Miss Caroline Peters...Middletown Del 1867 Octr 15...Mr. James N. Wells...Newyork...Miss Isabella Wood...Philadelphia 1867 Nov 14...Mr. Thomas W. Bucke...Middletown Del...Miss Emma Vanhekle...Middletown Del 1867 Dec. 3...Mr. John Dearie...Phila Pa...Miss Elisabeth Robinson...Phila Pa 1867 Dec 26...John Robinson...Middletown Del...Frances Bayard...Middletown Del...[both] Colored 1868 Jany 28...Mr. Edwin J. Price...Middletown Del...Miss Emma Bucke...Middletown Del 1868 Feby 21...Alfred Johnson...Middletown Del...Mary E. Evans...Middletown Del...[both] Colored 1868 March 5...Ambrose Piner...Middletown Del...Susan Johnson...Middletown Del...[both] Colored 1868 Aug 13...Mr. Thomas W. Carty...Middletown Del...Miss Lydia E. Smith...Middletown Del 1868 Sep 1...James Hamilton...Middletown Del...Harriet Kale...Middletown Del...[no comment] 1868 Sept 3...James Henry Whortenbury...Middletown Del...Lydia Demby...Middletown Del...[no comment] 1868 Sept 24...Mr. William W. Atwill...Newcastle Co. Del...Miss Margaret Roberts...Newcastle Co. Del 1868 Oct 20...Mr. George Derrickson Jnr...Middletown Del...Miss Lydia Frances Rothwell...Newcastle Co Del 1868 Dec 3...William Lewis...Middletown Del...Lucy Turner...Middletown Del...[both] Colored 1868 Decr 3...Mr. Joseph West...Newcastle Co Del...Mrs. Anna Spear...Middletown Del 1868 Dec 17...Mr. James Estile...Newcastle Co Del...Miss Rebecca Gore...Newcastle Co Del 1869 Jany 6...Mr. Benjamin Chiffins...Kent Co. Del...Miss Mary Ann Ford...Newcastle Co Del 1869 March 11...Mr. George W. W. Nandain...Middletown Del...Miss Kate A. Eliason...Newcastle Co Del 1869 June 3...Levi Anderson...Newcastle Co Del...Lizzie Wise...Newcastle Co Del...[both] Colored 1869 June 27...John Harris...Newcastle County Del...Tempe Jessup...Newcastle County Del...[both] Colored 1869 Octr 21...Mr. John R. Hall...Middletown Del...Miss Mary A. Murphy...Middletown Del 1869 Octr 28...Mr. Thomas H. Rothwell...Middletown Del...Miss Irene Beasten...Middletown Del 1870 Jany 6...Thomas Henry Jones...Newcastle Co Del...Ellen Washington...Newcastle Co Del...[both] Colored 1870 March 24...Edward Camomile...Newcastle Co Del...Sarah M. Henry...Newcastle Co Del...[both] Colored 1870 March 30...Gardner R. Scott...Newcastle Co Del...Eliza Gould...Newcastle Co Del...[both] Colored 1870 April 7...William Hall...Middletown Del...Rebecca Lockerman...Middletown Del...[both] Colored 1870 June 23...Joseph F. Milbourn...Smyrna Del...Anna E. Williams...Smyrna Del 1870 July 14...Thomas Jefferson...Newcastle Co Del...Susan Rodgers...Newcastle Co Del...[both] Colored 1870 Septr 29...George Sudler...Newcastle Co Del...Tempy Sadler...Newcastle Co Del...[both] Colored 1871 March 9...Napoleon Reed...Newcastle Co Del...Mary E. Empson...Newcastle Co Del...[both] Colored 1871 June 1...Edward Reynolds Esqr....Middletown Del...Miss Mary Jemima Nandain...Middletown Del 1871 Nov 9...Joseph Hutt...Newcastle Co Del...Elmira Patton...Newcastle Co Del...[both] Colored 1871 Nov 30...Thomas Adams...Newcastle Co Del...Araminta Thomas...Newcastle Co Del...[both] Colored 1872 Apr 30...Mr. Wm. A. Comegys...Kent Co Md...Miss Fannie E.Cochran...Middletown Del 1872 May 5...Aaron Solomon...Middletown Del...Annie E. Castins...Middletown Del...[both] Colored 1872 May 23...Mr. Fred: C. Penington...Middletown Del...Miss Annie G. Burnham...Middletown Del 1872 Aug. 9...Mr. Wm H. Brown...Newcastle Co Del...Miss Mary E. Kellen...Newcastle Co Del 1872 Aug 11...Thomas Empson...Middletown Del...Araminta Chandler...Middletown Del...[both] Colored 1873 Jany 23...Andrew Price...Middletown Del...Sarah E. Holenbeck...Middletown Del...[bride] Colored 1873 Feby 11...Mr. Samuel S. Ennis...Newcastle Co Del...Miss Mary Mathews...Newcastle Co Del 1873 Feby 25...Mr. John V. Welsh...Newcastle Co Del...Miss Emma Watson...Newcastle Co Del 1873 Feby 27...Mr. William H. Lind...Newcastle Co Del...Miss Eliza Bennett...Newcastle Co Del 1873 July 8...John Woodbridge Patton Esqr...Phila. Pa...Miss Mary Eugenia Blackiston...Middletown Del...[no payment entry] 1874 March 24...Mr. Samuel J. Lofland...Newcastle Co Del...Miss Sallie Bennett...Newcastle Co Del 1874 Aug 30...Alexander Landsman...Newcastle Co Del...Agnes Bissick...Newcastle Co Del...[both] Colored 1874 Octr 8...Mr. G. W. Barritt...Canton Missor...Miss Maggie W. Vanhekle...Newcastle Co Del...[groom] Ed. Canton Press 1874 Decr 3...Mr. David Fisher...Newcastle Co Del...Miss Amanda C. Mathews...Newcastle Co Del 1875 March 23...Mr. James Thompson...Middletown Del...Miss Sallie Needles...Middletown Del 1875 March 25...Mr. Edwin G. Sutton...Wilmington Del...Miss Eliza R. Vandegrift...Middletown Del 1875 March 28...Daniel Satterfield...Middletown Del...Harriet Gibbs...Middletown Del...[groom] Colored 1875 June 3...Mr. John S. Crouch...Middletown Del...Miss Kate Penington...Middletown Del 1875 Sept 2...Sewell Brooks...Newcastle Co Del...Mary Loper...Newcastle Co Del...[bride] Colored 1875 Nov 23...Henry Mitchell...Newcastle Co Del...Matilda Henson...Newcastle Co Del...[bride] Color'd 1875 Dec 12...David Boose...Newcastle Co Del...Annie E. Cresden...Newcastle Co Del...[bride] Colored 1875 Decr 30...Nathan Sadler...Middletown Del...Hannah Davis...Middletown Del...[bride] Colored 1876 Feby 17...Joshua Sinsley/Sinsby...Middletown Del...Henrietta Freeman...Middletown Del...[both] Colored 1876 April 6...Mr. Charles A. Cleaver...Newcastle Co Del...Miss Lettie C. Van Hekle...Newcastle Co Del 1876 April 27...Capt. Wm. E. Appleton...Odessa Del...Miss Caroline H. West...Middletown Del 1876 Aug 21...Mr. John W. Evans...Odessa Del...Miss Rachel Rothwell Titus...Odessa Del 1876 Septr 7...Mr. Matthew Bigger...Washington Co. Pa...Miss Ella E. Anderson...Kent Co. Md...Niece of mine & fee given to her 1876 Octr 12........Mr. Samuel Penington...Middletown Del...Miss Elisabeth I. Burnham...Middletown Del 1876 Octr 25...Mr. Henry A. Nawland...Middletown Del...Miss Lizzie Blackiston...Middletown Del 1877 Feby 22...Mr. William Heller...Odessa Del...Miss Sarah E. Swan...Odessa Del 1877 March 8...Jacob Wisher...Middletown Del...Mary E. Hollis...Middletown Del...[both] Colored 1877 Nov 12...Wm. Alfred Pratt...Middletown Del...Lucretia Henry...Middletown Del...[no other notation] 1877 Nov 21...Mr. Joseph G. Brown...Odessa Del...Miss Mary C. West...Middletown Del 1878 Feb. 28...John Henry Young...Middletown Del...Mary Harry...Middletown Del...[groom] Colored 1878 March 5...Mr. Joseph B. Deakyne...Middletown Del...Miss Fanny A. Denny...Middletown Del 1878 March 10...Aaron Solomon...Middletown Del...Mary Denby...Middletown Del...[both] Colored 1878 July 4...Frank Goldsboro...Middletown Del...Adaline Empson...Middletown Del...[both] Colored 1878 Aug 28...Mr. John R. Brown...Newcastle Co Del...Miss Wilhelmina C. Ratledge...Newcastle Co Del 1878 Sept. 19...Perry Henry Chambers...Newcastle Co Del...Hannah Jane Washington...Newcastle Co Del...[both] Colored 1878 Octr 19...John Freeman...Middletown Del...Lizzie Murray...Middletown Del...[both] Colored 1878 Nov 24...David Ponzo...Townsend Del...Ellen Till...Townsend Del...[both] Colored 1879 Feby 19...Mr. Thomas E. Watson...Newcastle Co Del...Miss Mary E. Cail/Cael...Newcastle Co Del 1879 Feby 27...Mr. Joseph C. Clayton...Newcastle Co Del...Miss R. L. Hutchison...Newcastle Co Del... 1879 Apr 24...Daniel Walters...Newcastle Co Del...Martha Brown...Newcastle Co Del...[both] Colored 1879 Nov 27...Charles Alexander...Middletown Del...Harriet Rhoads...Middletown Del...[both] Colored 1879 Decr 18...Mr. J. Price Vasey...Phila. Pa........Miss Ella T. Wollaston...Talbot Co. Md 1880 Jany 4...Mr. William King...Newcastle Co Del...Miss Mollie Watson...Newcastle Co Del 1880 Jany 6...Mr. Jesse F. Wilson...Chesterville Md...Miss Lidie M. Jones...Middletown Del 1880 Feby 26...Washington Rothwell...Middletown Del...Milson Jane Johnson...Middletown Del....[no other notation] 1880 March 28...James A. Bayard...Newcastle Co Del...Laura Cooper...Newcastle Co Del...[both] Colored 1882 Jany 19...Mr. E. R. Stanly Tull...Kinston N. Carolina...Miss Anna Allen Wilson...Philadelphia Penna 1882 Feby 15...Mr. Merill P. Hutton...Philadelphia Penn...Mis Pauline C. Smeltz...Philadelphia Penn 1882 May 24...Mr. Wm. C. Cowan...Quogue L. Island N.Y....Miss Marion Annie Amelia Matson...Quogue L. Island N.Y....Fee handed to Miss Julia Reeve 1883 March 15...Mr. Frank P. Conrey...Ches. City Ma...Miss Josie R. Cochran...Middletown Del