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Of lawful marriages in Detroit by magistrates after the act of 1793 we find only one recorded.

31 Allan Belling- ham of Detroit, Gentleman, was married to Monica Baby of Detroit, Spinster, by William Park, , March 22, 1795, "there being no Parson or Minister of the Church of England living within eighteen miles of them.

" But there were many across the river which are outside the scope of this paper.

No disgrace attached to a "Magistrates Wedding.

" August 4, 1801 the marriage at Sandwich of William Smith and Mary Cowan of the same place by William Hands, , was attended by the Chief Justice, John Elmsley and the Solicitor General, Robert Isaac Dey Grey, who were attending the assizes for the Western District and who.