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This article gives the essential facts found in a manuscript record, kept by Rev. Cyrus Hyde Fay, D.D., LL.D., of the marriages solemnized by him during a period of more than sixty years (1840-1901) and in many different places.

Cyrus Hyde Fay was born at Lebanon, N. H., 19 Nov. 1815, and died at Stamford, N. Y., 23 July 1903. He was educated at Norwich University, Vt., where he was a member of the Class of 1837, entered the Universalist ministry, held pastorates in Roxbury, Mass., New York City, Nashua, N. H., Middletown, Conn., Providence, R. I., and Washington, D. C., and was often called on to perform the marriage ceremony in other places. . . .

In preparing this record for publication, the words "I married," with which almost all of the entries begin, have been omitted, dates have been given with the usual abbreviations and have been transferred from the margin to the text of the entry, and the names of places, often abbreviated, have been printed in full. The names of persons have been spelled exactly as in the manuscript record. . . .

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In Roxbury, Dec. 24, 1846, Mr. Alonzo Josselyn and Miss Caroline A. Morse, both of Roxbury.