Be it remembered that on this twenty fifth day of March one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine personally appeared before me Thomas Huffman of the Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Middlesex Mary Huffman who being duly sworn in the holy Evengalist of Almighty God deposes and said that to the best of my recollection the marriage took place between John Lake and Mary Hall about the first of January seventeen hundred and seventy seven in the township of Kingwood Hunterdon County State of New Jersey and further ? her Mary + Huffman mark Sworn and before me Thomas Huffman ? March 25 1839 ? ? ? ? witness is a person of good respect and stands fair in society Thomas Huffman ?