Mr Richard Estes & Mrs Elizabeth Beck

Richard and Elizabeth were married in a religious ceremony on April 23rd, 1687 in Dover.¹ 

• Marriage/Union Notes
  • Married April 23, 1687 in Dover, England
    
    "The marriage certificate of Richard Estes and Elizabeth Beck:  This is to Certify ye trust to all people whom it may concern yt Richard Estes of ye Great Island in ye Province of NH and Elizabeth Beck of ye same Island and Province, they having declared "their intentions of marriage" before two monthly meetings of ye people called Quakers and they quering between ye meetings wheather ye man was clear from all other women and ye woman clear from all othe men, found nothing to hinder the proceedings her in,  and for as much ye sd Richard Estes who lived in England till the 11th day of the 7th month , 1684, his clearness doth appear by a certificate certified fromye people of God in Newington in East Kent in Old ENgland.  So all things being clear, a meeting of ye people of God was appointed at which ye publick manifestations and confirmation ye sd. marriage at our meeting house in Dover, in ye province of NH, upon ye 23rd day of ye 4th month, 1687, where ye sd Richard Estes and Elizabeth Beck did take each other in ye presents of God and his people according to ye scriptures of truth they then and there both promising before God and us his people to live lovingly together as God upholdeth as man and wife till death seprate according to God's honerable marriage and they both seeting their hands unto itt and we wintesses unto ye same whose names are here unto subscribed.  Richard Estes and Eliz Estes.
    
    Source:  "The Estes Genealogies", page 3

They had four sons and a daughter, named Matthew, Edward, Joseph, Robert and Sarah.  The family line is yet to be completed.