The room was not large, and the uninvited guests thronged it and crowded around the door.

The justice of peace was sent for, and the nuptial knot was tied.
The wedding ceremonies on such occasions were sufficiently curious to be worthy of record.

They certainly were in very wide contrast with the pomp and splendor of nuptials in the palatial mansions of the present day.

A large party usually met at some appointed place, some mounted and others on foot, to escort the bridegroom to the house of the bride.
The horses were decorated with all sorts of caparisons, with ropes for bridles, with blankets or furs for saddles.

The men were dressed in deerskin moccasins, leather breeches, leggins, coarse hunting-shirts of all conceivable styles of material, and all homemade.
The women wore gowns of very coarse homespun and home-woven cloth, composed of linen and wool, and called linsey-woolsey, very coarse shoes, and sometimes with buckskin gloves of their own manufacture.