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Margaret Stites

Margaret STITES 

James MANNING and Jeremiah MANNING, both of the County of Essex - bound to William Franklin, Governor  £500 - 22 Mar 1763 -  James MANNING - license of marriage for himself and for Margaret STITES of the county aforesaid (w) John MacKay (consent)  Borough Elizabeth(town) Dec 30: 1762 
These are to certify  James MANNING of same to marry our daughter Margaret.
signed John STITES, Margaret STITES.

"James Manning......it is said that his wife, who had been Miss Margaret Stites of Elizabethtown, was lovely in person and possessed of those "elegant accomplishments and superior qualities which well accorded with her husband's character and happily fitted her for the discharge of duties inseparable from public positions of honor and usefulness."....."3 

Children were:

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Sources
2. New Jersey Marriage bonds, Vol. M; 1735-1794, #232, LDS FHLC film #0888706
3. 'The New England Magazine' May 1899 Vol XX No. 3, pg's 293-314 - 'Brown University' by Henry Robinson Palmer.

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