Vital Statistics - Marriage: CAMPBELL, Abel to DIXON, Susanna - 1790

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Abel Campbell
1763 - 1846

Whereas Abel Campbell, son of William and Mary Campbell, of Union Township 
Fayette County, Pennsylvania, and Susanna Dixon, daughter of William and Rebecca 
Dixon, of Menallen Township, county afore said, having declared their intentions 
of marriage with each other, before several Monthly Meetings of the People 
called Quakers at Westland, according to the good order used among them; and 
having Consent of Parties concerned, their said proposals were allowed of by the 
said meetings.  Now these are to certify whom it may concern, that for the full 
accomplishing of their said Intentions, this Sixth Day of the Tenth Month, in
the Year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and ninety; they, the said Abel 
Campbell and Susanna Dixon by the Hand, did in solemn manner openly declare that 
he took the said Susanna Dixon to be his Wife; promising through Divine 
Assistance to be to her a loving and faitful Husband; promising through Divine 
Assistance to be to him a "loving Faithful Wife, until Death should separate 
them; or words to that import.  Moreover, they the said Abel Campbel and Susanna 
(she according to the Custom of Marriage Assuming the surname of her Husband) as 
a further confirmation thereof, did then and there to these presents set their 
Hands.  signed, Abel Campbell, Susanna Campbell.  And we, whose names are
hereunto subscribed, being present at the solemnization of said Marriage and 
Subscrption have as Witnesses thereto set our Hands the Day and Year above 
Written. Sarah Sanems, Mary Coope, Rebekah Jackson, John Coope, Ruth Crawford, 
Margaret Crawford, Mary Campbell, Abel Campbell, Rachel Hammond, Jonas Cottell, 
Orr Garwood, Joshua Hunt, Sarah Cadwallader, Elizabeth Cottell,  Ester Cottell, 
Mary Walton, Rachel Cottell, Maring Harley, Thomas French, Nimrod Gregg, Thomas 
Irain, Joseph, Benjamin Townsend, William Wilson, William Silberhorn, John 
Cadwallader, John McCaddon, John Graves, Jacob Downard, Jesse Beeson, Thomas 
Townsend, George Harley, Benj. Harleu, Junr., Isaac Johnson, George Hackney, 
Samuel Gregg, John Mason, Nathaniel Sanems, William Dixon, Rebekah Dixon, Wm. 
Campbell, Jr., Mary Campbell, Junr., James Campbell, William Dixon, Junr., 
Charles Gouse, Ebenezer, Walker, Rachel Walker, George Walker, William 
Whiteside.

History of Fayette County with Biographical Sketches, Franklin Ellis