I realized that I had never researched the witness on this bond--who could easily just be a warm body or someone of significance. The difficulty is in reading the name.
This image came from the microfilmed copy of the marriage bonds at the Family History Library--obtained from the New Brunswick Provincial Archives.
In hindsight, I wish I knew whether the document that was filmed was the original bond or a transcription of it. I'm glad that I know where I got this record, but now I need to know where the "microfilmer" got it as well.
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A quick look at the ending "y" in the name of the witness and several places in the script within the document seems to indicate that the same person who wrote the name of the witness also wrote the script within the bond itself.
Could the last name be Dewey? Just a guess.
I thought that for a while too, but it appears to have been Drury. There was a man with that last name who appears in the 1871 New Brunswick Census as a local government employee.
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