Rec'd Feb 6, 1860
W'm Bates to Mariah Hamler } State of Michigan Lapeer County [Ss.]
I hereby certify that on the first day of January A.D. 1860 at E. H. Ba[???] Tavern in the town of Dryden in the County aforesaid I joined in Marriage Mr William Bates of the town of Lapeer of the Sate of Michigan aged twenty five years; and Miss Maria Hamlar of the town of Metamora State of Michigan aged sixteen years and that the said parties did then and there solemnly declare that they took each other as husband and wife and that there were present as witnesses E. H. Baker of Dryden & S. E. Baker of Dryden. Alexander Gee Minister of the Gospel
