Samuel Parker, Stamford & Sarah Jane Newton, Niagara (10 Oct. 1872)

No. 2600 By His Excellency the Right Honorable [[FREDERICK TEMPLE]], [[EARL OF DUFFERIN]] K.P., K.C.B., P.C., [[Governor General]] of [[Canada]], and [[Governor]] and Commander in Chief of the [[Island of Prince Edward]], &c., &c., &c. WHEREAS Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to authorize Me to grant Licenses for the Solemnization of Marriages : AND WHEREAS [[Samuel Parker]] of the Township of [[Stamford]] in the County of [[Welland]] and Province of [[Ontario]], Bachelor, and [[Sarah Jane Newton]], of the [[Township of Niagara]] and County of [[Lincoln]] and Province aforesaid, Spinster are determined to enter into the Holy Bans of Matrimony, and are desirous of having their Marriage publicly solemnized; in order that such their honest desires may the more speedily have the due effect, and that they may be able to procure the same to be lawfully Solemnized without Publication of Bans, I do hereby, for good causes, give and grant this License of Faculty as well to them, the said Parties contracting, as to all or every Person or Minister, duly ordained and lawfully exercising his Ministry within the [[Province of Ontario]], to solemnize and perform the same: Provided always, that by reason of any Affinity, Consanguinity, Precontract, or any other lawful cause, there be no legal impediment in this behalf, otherwise, if any fraud shall appear to have been committed, at the time of granting this License, either by false suggestions or concealment of the truth, that then this License shall be null and void, to all intents and purposes whatsoever. GIVEN under my Hand and Office Seal, at [[Thorold]] this Ninth day of October in the year of Our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and seventy two‚ and of Her Majesty’s Reign the Thirty sixth [signature illegible] [[Deputy Governor]]. Issued by [[Jacob Keefer]] Agent