[cripplecreek]

In my genealogy research I’m finding a lot of ancestors on the frontier who lived together as husband and wife for years before a traveling minister would come along and marry them. It looks like government started getting involved as land disputes arose after the death of a spouse.

[Ransomed]

State involvement can be a good thing. From a just state. But in the hands of statists and homosexualists, it becomes a way to punish and to keep punishing those they know who will never accept state approved impossibilities like ‘gay marriage.’ Using the power of the state to punish is what the whole ‘gay marriage’ fight is all about.

Freegards

[ansel12]

In my genealogy research I’m finding a lot of ancestors on the frontier who lived together as husband and wife for years before a traveling minister would come along and marry them.

"Lot's" of ancestors on the frontier with no access to a minister or official or who could post a Bann on a church door or obtain a license, that is a little hard to believe that you would have lot's of them.

What years were these, in which colonies or states?