FROM A PHOTOGRAPHED COPY OF A CERTIFICATE CONSISTING OF TYPEWRITTEN ENTRIES ON A PRINTED FORM. NUMBERED 274 AT THE LEFT AND S.R. 75339/27 AT THE RIGHT, READING THUS: - "Whereas the agreement and intention of marriage between us ffrancis Davenport of Whittington, in the County of Darby Millener, and Sara Browne, dt. of Ann Browne of Broughton of the County of Leicester, hath been several times openly published in the churches unto which we belong and no objection made against us. Now the said ffrancis and Sarah have this day openly and solemnly as in the presence of the Lord and in the Assembly of his people taken each other in marriage to live together as man and wife ought to do according to God's divine ordinance and appointment. And for a testimony thereof we have hereunto set our hands this thirtieth day of the eighth month in the year one thousand six hundred and seventy eight, ffrancis Davenport Sara Browne Testimony as to public solemnization according to the order of the Church of Christ: John Frettwell John Ramm Tho. Foak John Webster Joshua Fearne Will Draper Hercules Harvey Rich. Elliott Tho. Gilberthorpe John Brooks Edwd Stone Will Stone Rich Snasdale Will Kirk Henry Browne Certified to be an Extract from the Register or Record numbered 1209 B. Leicester Marriages Births and Burials formerly kept by the Society of Friends at the Monthly Meeting of Leicestershire and to be a true copy on an entry contained in the General Register Office under....An act for enabling Courts of Justice to admit non-Parochial Registers as evidence of birth or baptism, deaths or burials and marriages. Given at the General Register Office, Somerset House, 23rd day of Dec. 1927....Justice Collection, D Vol 7-9; Davenport. Francis Davenport, son of Edward and Ellen (Newton) Davenport, b 1651; aged 13 in 1664. d. ca 1707. The ancestry is covered for several generations. FROM THE GENEALOGY OF THE DECOU FAMILY. MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE OF FRANCIS DAVENPORT AND REBECCA DECOW Francis Davenport of Chesterfield in the County of Burlington in the province of West New Jersey Widower and Rebecca Decow of Burlington aforesaid, Relict of Isaac Cecow, having declared their intention of taking each other in marriage before several publique meetings of the People of God called Quakers in the County aforesaid according to the good order used amongst them whose proceedings therein after a deliberate Consideration were approved of by the said meeting, they appearing cleard of all others and having consent of all concerned. Now these are to Certiffe all whom it may concern That for the full accomplishing of their said Intentions this twelth day of the Eighth month called October In the year One Thousand Six Hundred Ninety Two. The said Francis Davenport and Rebecca Decow appeared in a publique meeting place in Burlington aforesaid and according to the Example of the Holy men of God Recorded in the Scriptures of Truth in a solemn manner he the said Francis Davenport taking the said Rebecca Decow by the hand did openly declare as followeth That in the presence and fear of God and in the presence of you his people he did take his Friend Rebecca Decow to be his Wife promising, as the Lord Shall enable him. to be a faithful and Loving Husband till death shall Separate them. Rebecca Decow in like manner taking Francis by the hand declared that in the Presence of God and before His people She did take her Friend Francis Davenport to be her husband promising to be a faithful and loving Wife until death Shall Separate them. And for further Confirmation of their said Marriage the said Francis and Rebecca have put their names and we whose names are Subscribed as Witnesses both to the Solemnization and Subscription the day and year above written. Francis Davenport Rebecca Davenport John Wilsford Tho: Olive Thomasin Towle Jacob Decow Peter Fretwell Elizabeth Gardiner John Decow Edward Rockhill Mary Folkes Joseph Smith Christo: Wetherill Susanna Prickett Daniel Smith Freedom Lippincott Eliza Lambert Mahlon Stacy Samuel Bunting Eliza Day Samuel Jennings Robert Murfia Jane Shinn James Hill John Woolston Grace Whitton Tho: Gardiner John Bunting Bridget Watson Robert Hudson Tho: Folkes Ann Murfin Tho: Lambert Geo. Gray Mary Myers Fr. Collings John Burtis Eliza Fretwell John Shinn Sarah Farr Wm. Watson Mary Rockhill Know all men by these presents that I ffrancis Davenport of ye Township of Chesterfield in ye County of Burlington within ye prvince of West Jersey yeoman am holden and firmly bound unto the Honorable Governor Andrew Hamilton over West New Jersey in ye full & Just Sume of five hundred pounds currc Silver Money of ye prvince of West Jersey to be paid to ye sd Governor or his lawful Successoure in his sd Office to ye which payment well & truly to be made I bind myself & my Heirs & Exect Adm firmly by these psents sealed with my Seal. Dated ye tenth Day of November Anno RR Guilielmi tertii Anglia & nono Annoque Dom' 1697. The condition of the above obligation is such that whereas Susannah Decoo ye daughter of Isaac Decoo late of ye county of New Castle in ye province of Pennsylvania yeoman deceased Came & appeared before his Majes Justices for ye peace for ye County of Burlington aforesaid upon ye eighth day of this Instant November Anno 1697 and then of her own Accord & by ye consent of her Mother Desired yt ye said Justices would appoint ffrancis Davenport to be her Guardian which ye Justices granted. cis ffran Davenport (Seal) Witnesses Peter Fretwell John Holl. Thomas Bobb Secretary of State Trenton N.J. Unrecorded Wills Vol 1 p323