The following was found in The History of New Jersey, by JOHN O. RAUM, Vol. 1, As a footnote on page 292, Published by John E. Potter and Co. 617 Samsom St., Philadelphia. “Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1877, by John O. Raum, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.”

“*The following is a copy of a certificate given by Governor Franklin: By His Excellency William Franklin, Esq., Captain-General and Governor in Chief and over His Majesty’s Province of New Jersey and Territories thereon depending in America.
To the minister or justice of the peace:
Whereas, by a mutual Purpose of Marriage between Samuel Opdyke of the Township of Amwell, and County of Hunterdon, of the one Party, and Susannah Robertson, of the same place of the other Party, of which they have desired my License, and have given Bond, upon condition that neither of them have any lawful Let or Impediment, Pre-Contract, Affinity, or Consanguinity, to their being joined in Holy Bands of Matrimony, and then to pronounce them Man and Wife.
Given under my Hand and Praerogative/Prsergative/Prerogative* Seal, at Burlington, the Seventh Day of December, in the Sixteenth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of GOD of Great-Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. Annoque Domini One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy-Five. Entered in the Registry of Praerogative* Office.
Signed: Wm. Franklin"

* There is a figure connected to the e in Pre of this word that looks like an a or s. The word is not found in spell check or the Thesaurus.