Resolve on the petition of John Neal and others of Litchfield, Maine, January 26th, 1820


Sprague's Journal of Maine History
Volume VII
Aug. Sept. Oct. 1919
No. 2
page 96

RESOLVES PASSED BY THE MASSACHUSETTS LEGISLATURE 1818-1820,  
RELATING TO MAINE.

Resolve on the petition of John Neal and others.
January 26th, 1820

On the petition of John Neal, John Dennis, Jesse Pike, Daniel Ring, Junior, 
Joshua W. Watson, and David C. Burr all of Litchfield, in the county of Lincoln, 
representing that they have been united in matrimony with their present wives, viz:  
John Neal with Polly Hutchinson, John Dennis with Betsey Walker, Jesse Pike 
with Sally True, (since deceased,) Daniel Ring, Junior, with Betsey Dennis, 
Joshua W. Watson with Judith Tibbetts, and David C. Burr with Catherine Fuller, 
having a lawful right to do, and their intentions accordingly having been legally 
published, by the Town Clerk, of said Town of Litchfield, and that they have 
severally been married by Ministers of the Baptist or Methodist order, who were 
regularly ordained, according to the rules of said Societies, as Ministers at large; 
and that doubts have been expressed, respecting the validity of the said marriages:

RESOLVED, That the several marriages aforesaid, of the said John Neal, John 
Dennis, Jesse Pike, Daniel Ring, Junior, Joshua W. Watson, and David C. Burr, 
solemnized in manner aforesaid, be, and the same are hereby declared legal, 
and valid, to all intents and purposes of marriages:  and the children of the 
said marriages are hereby declared to be legitimate, as if said marriages are 
hereby declared to be legitimate, as if said marriages had been solemnized 
by a person legally empowered for such purpose.

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