1710 : First Recorded Marriage in Detroit

When:
May 5, 2018 all-day
2018-05-05T00:00:00-04:00
2018-05-06T00:00:00-04:00

Baptiste Turpin and Margaret Fafard marry at St. Anne’s Church, the oldest recorded marriage in Detroit. Fire destroyed records of the church in 1703 so it is possible that a marriage might have occured earlier, but there is no surviving record.

Source : The Detroit Almanac.

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