Extracted from The New England Historical and Genealogical Register . The Rev. Mr. Bailey was a Baptist minister in several small towns in Maine from 1833 to 1871, when he retired. Without doubt he performed many more marriages during his long ministry. TC is the abbreviation for Town Clerk. The date is that of publishment, although the certificates were issued several days later.
All towns mentioned are in Maine.
It is stated in the Cleveland-Cleaveland Genealogy , vol. 1, p. 36, gives the name as Cornelius Whitney. No proof is offered that it was the widow of Edward Cleveland who married Cornelius Whitney. He suggested that we publish these older inscriptions and offered to make the selection from his manuscript. We greatly regret that he did not live to see this final installment of his work in print.