"affidavit of Andrew McClure who testifies that he was present at the Marriage of Andrew Fulton to Elizabeth Hall which took place in the year 1783. This was one year before the passage of the act of the Legislature of Va requiring bonds to be given by the [illegible word] obtaining marriage Lincences and requiring those who solemnise marriages to make the
returns – you will perceive by an enumeration of the papers that the Clerk of the County Court certifies that there are no records running further back than 1785."
