1887 Marriages

Princeton Press, Sat., May 21, 1887:     At Princeton, on Wednesday, May 18, by the Rev. G. M. Witten, pastor of A. M. E. Church, at Camden, MR. SAMUEL BLACKWELL, of Pennington, and MRS. LETITIA LAKE, of Princeton.		Princeton Press, Sat., June 18, 1887:     At the residence of John Schenck, Canal St., June 17th, by Rev. Wm. D. Robeson, WM. A. MAIZE, of Dayton, N. J., to EMMA SMITH, of Dutch Neck, N. J.
Princeton Press, Sat., July 9, 1887:     On June 29th, 1887, at the parsonage of the A. M. E. Church, by Rev. J. C. Ayler, MR. HORACE N. CONOVER of Princeton, to MISS RACHEL MILLER of the same place.		Princeton Press, Sat., Dec. 24, 1887: LITTLE-THOMPSON.--Thursday, Dec. 22, 1887, at the residence of the bride's mother, SALLIE LITTLE to WM. THOMPSON, Rev. Wm. D. Robeson officiating.
Princeton Press, Sat., Dec. 24, 1887: FIELDS-GORDON.--Thursday evening Dec. 22nd, by the Rev. Wm. D. Robeson, LIZZIE FIELDS to ANDREW GORDON, of Princeton.
Princeton Press, Saturday, April 16, 1887: ROCKY HILL SHOCKED.     The story of young farmer Van Tilburg's infatuation with a colored girl at Rocky Hill, Middlesex county, was recently told in the New York World. Lizzie Simmons is the female in question, and her sprightly manners and winning ways really captivated the farmer, who was united in marriage to her by Rev. Mr. Robeson, a colored cleryman [sic] of Princeton, on Tuesday night of last week.     Van Tilburg was recently ordered off the farm owned by Miss Simmon's [sic] father, whence he had gone to pay a visit to Lizzie. He was arrested for trespass and the case was settled. Early on Tuesday evening Van Tilburg drove to the house of Simmons, and, attracting the attention of the girl, walked from her house to a lane near by, in which he had a buggy in waiting. She readily acquiesced in the proposition made to her by Van Tilburg that the two should get married, and returned to her home for her hat. She told her father of the offer made her and said she would go with her lover at once. The old man strongly objected, but his appeal was in vain. Lizzie ran to the lane and, springing into the buggy beside her white lover, was hastily driven away towards Princeton, where the ceremony was performed.     The couple remained in the home of a colored family at Princeton Tuesday night and returned to Rocky Hill on Wednesday, remaining at Simmons' home. Van Tilburg, who is about twenty five years old, is considered insane, although in every other act of his life he appears to have acted with commendable judgment.     Van Tilburg has since showed himself in the village and acknowledged the marriage. Somerville Gazette.

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