A marriage certificate issued by the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865.

Transcription:

By authority vested in me by the Assistant Commissioner of the Bureau of Refugees,
Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, acting in pursuance of the law of Congress Act,
March 3rd 1865,
I have united in matrimony
Mr Peter Thompson [[object Object]]
Miss Maria Hall [[object Object]]

Done at Gratitude Plantation[[object Object]]
Parish of West Feliciana State of La.,
this 28th day of January 1867

E. J. Lewis
Regt. of
[[object Object]] of Freedmen
for West Feliciana Parish, La.

Citation Information
“Marriage Certificate of Peter Thompson and Maria Hall of Louisiana,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/aa22efcfff09f55442daa947f25d3765.
Note: These citations are programmatically generated and may be incomplete.
Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration.

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