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First Marriage in California
Photographer: James King
Taken: November 24, 2012
Caption: First Marriage in California
Additional Description: (Located inside the entryway below the campanário)
The first marriage in California took place at this Mission between Juan María Ruiz of El Fuerte, Sonora, Mexico, 25 years of age, and Margaríta de Cortona, 22, a Salinian woman of Mission San Antonio, on the sixteenth of May in the year of Our Lord 1773.
Submitted: November 30, 2012, by James King of San Miguel, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p227521
File Size: 1.308 Megabytes

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