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Squire Boone m. Sarah Morgan marriage certificate from Gwynedd Meeting records:

Whereas Squire Boone, son of George Boone, of the county of Philadelphia and Province of Pennsylvania, yeoman, and Sarah Morgan, dau. of Edward Morgan, of the said county and province, having declared their intentions of marriage with each other before two monthly meetings of ye people called Quakers, held at Gwynedd, in ye said county, according to ye good order used among them, whose proceedings therein, after deliberate consideration, and having consent of parents and relations concerned therein, their said proceedings are allowed by said meeting: NOW THESE ARE TO CERTIFY whom it may concern that for the full accomplishment of their said intentions this 23rd day of ye 7th month, in the year of our Lord 1720, the said Squire Boone and Sarah Morgan appeared at a solemn assembly of the said people for that purpose appointed at their public meeting place in Gwynedd aforesaid, and the said Squire Boone took the said Sarah Morgan by the hand [and] did in a solemn manner declare that he took her to be his wife, promising to be unto her a faithful and loving husband, until death should separate them, and then and there in the said assembly the said Sarah Morgan did likewise declare She Took ye Said Squire Boone To be her Husband In Like Manner Promiseing to be Unto him a Faithfull and Loveing Wife Untill Should Seperate Them And Moreover The Said Squire Boone & Sarah She According to ye Custom of Marriage Assuming ye Name of Her Husband as Farther Confirmation Thereof Did Then and There to these presents Set There Hands And We Whose Names Are Under Written Being Among Others Present at ye Solemnization of the Said Marriage And Subscription in Manner Afforesd As Witnesses Thereunto have also to These Presents Set Our Hands ye Day & Year Above Written

[Witnesses]

Samll Thomas Mary Webb SQUIRE BOONE
Jenk Evans Eliz Morris SARAH BOONE
Robt Jones Dorothy Morgan Geo Boone
Morgan Hugh Eliz Hughs Edw Morgan
Jno Edwards Mary Hamer Eliz Morgan
Tho Evan Eliz Morgan Geo Boone
Cadr Evan Jane Griffith Ja Boone
Robt Evan Eliz Griffith Wm Morgan
Jno Cadwalader Margt Jones Jno Morgan
Jno William Ellin Evans Daniel Morgan
Jno Humphrey Gainor Jones Morgan Morgan
Jno Jones Jos Morgan
Jno Jones Jno Webb
Evan Griffith Jno Webb
Rowland Robert
Amos Griffith
Cadwalader Jones