{"newspaper_name": "The New York herald.", "edition": "01", "page": "p2", "byline": ""}
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QUAKER MARRIAcE.-A correspondent Of The
Zions Herald gives the following description of a
wedding at the Friends meeting house in New Bedford
The parties were Dr. Benjamin f. Hardy and Miss Sarah
Coggeshsll.


After sitting in silence fifteen twenty minutes an
aged man-probaby the leader Of the meeting-arose
and made few sensible remarks the general jmpor.
tance OF covenant kecping after which the bride and
bridegroom Joined hands, and each in audible voice
promised to be faithful to each other till death should
separate them They then severaly signed printed
covenant on parchment, believe; after which the
covenant was read in the hearing of the meeting was
read by the venerable Mr. Sherman the oldest printer of
a newspaper in New Bedford.


The audience were now invedto repair to a central
part OF the house where, table being placed the
covenant laid it, and those who were willing to
do so appended their names to it as witnesses The
ceremony of Witnessing the covenant long and
somewhat tedious, but nevertheless interesting "hc
company began to leave the house in silence before half
the names inserted.