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While adding obituaries for the week of July 24, 1924 Bucks County Intelligencer weekly I found this which was of interest to me.

TWENTY -TWO MARRIED AT MAKEFIELD MEETING

Friends' Meeting House in Makefield Was Scene of Many Marriage Ceremonies - One dates to 1820.

NEWTOWN, JULY 22-Since writing the account of the recent wedding in Makefield Meeting House a friend has found the record of a number of Friends who were married therein. It was thought that all weddings should be solemnized in the meeting house.

 

The following is a list that may be of interest to your readers:

Giles Knight and Mary Yardley, Tenth-month 26th, 1820
Samuel Yardley and Mary Hough Third-month 21st, 1822
John Stapler and Susanna Betts Fourth-month 18th, 1822
Thomas Winder and Ruth Longshore Tenth-month 12th, 1822
John Palmer and Susanna Taylor, Tenth-month 16th, 1823
Benjamin Palmer Tomlinson and Hannah Knowles, Tenth-month 23d, 1823
Benjamin Moore and Rachel Winder, Eleventh-month 13th, 1823
Samuel Ross and Sarah Holcomb, Tenth-month 21st, 1824
David Fell and Letitia Knowles, Seventh-month 20th, 1826
Ezra Buckman and Mary Yardley, Ninth-month 21st, 1826
Robert Smith and Mary L. Lownes, Sixth-month 12th, 1827
Jacob Eastburn and Elizabeth K. Taylor, Fourth-month 23d 1829
Benjamin Beans and Mary Holcomb, Eleventh-month 17th, 1831
Thomas Bonsell and Elizabeth Vasey, Seventh-month 12th, 1832
Levi Buckman and Esther Yardley, Ninth-month 13th, 1832
Zephaniah Force and Rachel Balderston, Eleventh-month 21st, 1833
Joseph Janney and Mary Anna Taylor, Eleventh-month 21st, 1833
Stephen Twining and Letitia Paxson Second-month 13th, 1834
Robert Murice Croasdale and Mercy M. Cadwalader, Third-month 20th, 1836
Joseph Yardley and Margaretta Taylor, Tenth-month 30th, 1836
William Carr and Margaret Buckman, Third-month 11th, 1841
Benjamin Lloyd and Lydia T. Taylor, Second-month 11th, 1842