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Viscount Cornbury Signed Document

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“Cross Dressing” Governor of New York Issues a Marriage License !

VISCOUNT CORNBURY, Royal Governor of New York and New Jersey.
Document Signed, as Governor of New York, January 20, 1703, New York, 1 page, folio (8” by 13”). With embossed seal. Stained in four places, and Cornbury’s signature is light, but overall pleasing and Fine. Addressed “To any Protestant Minister or Justice of Peace in the said Province.” Here “Edward Viscount Cornbury... authorizes and impowers” the joining in “the Holy bonds of Matrimony “a Dutch couple, Dominicus Vander Vers and Margaretta Van Orteck. Viscount Cornbury was corrupt, extravagant, and with a penchant for appearing in public dressed in women’s clothing—he was most unpopular.

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