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==Vital Records== | ==Vital Records== | ||
===Marriages=== | |||
The 1788 statute for marriages required: <br> | |||
1) banns to be read 15 days before the marriage<br> | |||
2) the male to be 17 years old<br> | |||
3) the female to be 14<br> | |||
By 1800, marriage licenses were manditory.Eichholz, Alice, Red Book: American State, County, and Towns Sources (Provo, UT: Ancestry, 2004), page 199.</ref> <br> | |||
[[Category:Law and Legislation]][[Category:Indiana, United States]] | [[Category:Law and Legislation]][[Category:Indiana, United States]] | ||