truly amiable and
accomplished Miss ABIGAIL GRANT, daughter of the late
ALEXANDER GRANT, Esq. a Lady of real merit, and highly
qualified to render the connubial state desirable and
supremely happy.

May 22, 1786.

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--By the Rev. Dr. STILLMAN, Mr. CALEB LORING, distiller, to
the agreeable Miss POLLY SELSBRY.

May 25, 1792.

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MARRIED]--At _Billerica_, Mr. JAMES BREED, to the amiable
Miss ELIZABETH PARKER.--At _Newtown_, Mr. JOHN WALTER, A.B.,
to the agreeable Miss POLLY BULLARD.

March 24, 1792.

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Married,

At Topsfield, by the Rev. Mr. Huntington, Mr. JOSEPH
AVERELL, to the accomplished Miss EUNICE LAMSON.

_Salem Register,_ 1801.

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Editors were formerly very fond of curious matter for their lists of
marriages and deaths. In the "Massachusetts Centinel" for 1789 the
marriage of Pork and Hogg has a doubtful look, although it used to be
supposed that everything in the paper was true.

MARRIED]--Lately in Delaware, Mr. ROBERT PORK, merchant, to
Miss CATHARINE HOGG.--At Pepperell, Mr. GILES RICHARDS, of
this town, to the amiable Miss SALLY ADAMS, youngest
daughter of the late Rev. Mr. ADAMS, of Roxbury.--At Hull,
Mr. SPENCER BINNEY, to Miss POLLY JONES, daughter of Mr.
THOMAS JONES, of that place.

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A Boston paper of 1795 prints the following:--

_MARRIAGES._

At Concord, Ebenezer Woodwrod, A.B., Citizen Bachelor, of
Hanover, N.H., to the amiable Miss ---- Robinson. At
Longmeadow, Mr. John M. Dunham, Citizen Bachelor and
Printer, as aforesaid, to the amiable Miss EMILY BURT.

The promptness and decision which the said Citizens have
shown----

"In all the fond intrigues of Love,"

is highly worthy of imitation; and the success that has so
richly crowned their courage and enterprize, must be an
invincible inducement to the fading phalanx of our remaining
Bachelors, to make a vigorous attack on some fortress of
female beauty, with a determined resol