South Carolina }
York District } Personally appeared
before me MJ Clawson
Commissioner in equity for York Dist-
rict and Magistrate in Office, Elizabeth
Mursh, who being duly sworn sayeth
on oath that it was the custom
with the whole of the Tribe or nearly
all, to which they belonged, to publish
the bands of matrimony in the
Indian Church or Society, and
after the publication to go together
as man and wife—it was also the
custom of many white people at
that time to “go together” in the same
way; but when the Indians or whites
wanted to join the Christian Church,
the Preacher of the denomination
to which they wished to all attach
themselves would not admit them into
the Church until they had been
married by a Preacher of the
Church, and this is the reason
why they were married a
second time. Sworn to and subscribed
Before me April 29 1848 her
MJ Clawson CMD Elizabeth Mursh
mark