A minister’s list of marriages for 1796 in Mercer County, Kentucky.  Several have no first name for the bride.  I suppose we are lucky to have this much saved from such a long time ago!

A List of Marriages for 1796

• John Vanhice and Letty Canine – 22 December
• Levi Hale and Catherine Tucker – 22 May
• David Thompson and Melinda Newell – 7 December
• Samuel Hendrickson and Elizabeth Hitts – 3 April
• William Armstrong and Elizabeth Robertson – no date (3 April?)
• Robert Burton and Margaret Forgerson – 26 March
• Augustine England and Savanna Fulsher – 4 November
• John Jackson and ? Asberry – 7 April
• John McBrayers and Nancy Cole – no date (7 April?)
• Benjamin Pullam and Anne Cason – 8 December
• William Dean and Anne Kelly – 7 March
• William Merideth and Margaret Beryl – 1 December
• Samuel McAfee and Mary Cardwell – 4 April
• Josiah Turpin and Elizabeth Mires – 1 May
• Jesse McGuire and Elizabeth Butter – 25 November
• Peter Noell and Lamey Vanarsdall – 28 July
• Thomas Christian and Sally Drane – 9 September
• Samuel Woods and Nancy Guthrie – 21 August
• William Renals and Elizabeth Fuget – 3 August
• John Cardwell and Ann McAfee – 18 August
• Robert Davis and Ann Troy – 14 September
• George Horine and Nancy Higgins – 10 May
• Silas Robertson and Sally Carle – 28 August
• Joshua Blanton and Elizabeth Nelson – 23 April
• Samuel Cull and Betsey Davis – 22 December
• William Smothers and ? Burcham – 10 May
• James Davis and Sally Boucher – 27 November
• Abraham McKinney and Eleanor Prather – 7 July
• Cornelius Vanhice and Mary Carvart – 17 November
• William Timberlake and Sarah Thompson – 23 April
• Lambert Gorton and Jenny Ballentine – 22 June
• James Lyon and Margaret Springate – 13 May
• Peter Dermot and Mary Terhune – 19 December
• Robert Pendleton Steinburgan and Mary McGary – 1 December
• George Markwood and Peggy Adams – 17 November
• John Irvin and Jenny Robertson – 3 June
• John Carr and Jenny Elder – 29 September