I thought this to be interesting. David Thomas, Robert Sanders and John Monroe, DissentingTeachers, having been recommended to the Court by the Elders of their Churches, are licensed to marry Persons agreeable to the Act of Assembly. [NOTE: John K. Gott states: David Thomas was the founder of Broad Run Baptist Church, the oldest, continuous Baptist Church in Virginia. Robert Sanders was a member of the church and ordained from that body. John Monroe, M.D. founder of Long Branch Baptist Church, and founder of Marshall (formerly Salem). This was quite a step for the Commonwealth and County Court to make - before this time all marriages performed by "dissenters" were illegal and they were also vigorously persecuted by the Court, especially some members). Dissenters meaning: A person who leaves a church. A person who disagrees with a popular action or school of thought. June