Pennsylvania Marriage Licenses Previous to 1790

By: John B. Linn & William H. Egle, Orig. Pub. 1890, Reprinted 2019, 286 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-056-X.

These marriage licenses were issued from the Office of the Provincial Secretary of Pennsylvania under the authority of the England, those listed in this work date back from 1742. Some earlier registers of licenses and some kept at a later date are missing, yet this work still features a base list of 6,500 marriages of which all of them are based on public records as opposed to church records.