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1816 A Minister’s Unmarried Woman’s CERTIFICATE of PURITY

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1816 A Minister’s Unmarried Woman’s CERTIFICATE of PURITY
Post-Revolutionary War to Civil War
1816 An Unmarried Woman’s CERTIFICATE of Purity
October 22, 1816-Dated, Partially-Printed Document, Minister’s Unmarried Woman CERTIFICATE of Purity, Kilwinning (MO), Fine.
An original Partially-Printed Document, 7.25” x 4.25”, Kilwinning, (MO). Folds, toning, minor pinholes. This “Purity” Document is a Minister’s “CERTIFICATE” that reads: “That the Bearer Janet White an Unmarried Woman and a Communicant, resides in this Parish, for the space of Twenty years immediately preceding this date behaving herself soberly and honestly, free of all public Scandal, or any ground of Church Censure, known to us, ------ is attested at Kilwinning, this 22nd day of Octr. One thousand eight hundred and sixteen years, by James Stevens Minister. - (Signed) - Neil Small Sess. Clk.”