History of marriage in California History of marriage in California The recorded history of marriage in California is long and encompasses a period as far back as the first Spanish missions and even further back in unrecorded history of Native American Indians and their marriage rituals. California was incorporated into the United States of America in 1850. While the Native Americans of California did not document their culture in the same way western civilization did, we still have a great deal of knowledge from archaeological evidence as well as the earliest records of the Spanish missions. Native communities in southern California of the Chumash Indians,
Province 2 of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America Rosalie Ballentine, Esq. of the Diocese of the Virgin Islands serves as Vice President. Province 2 of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America Province 2 (II) is one of nine ecclesiastical provinces making up the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. It comprises the six dioceses of the State of New York, the two dioceses of the State of New Jersey, the diocese in the Republic of Haiti and the diocese in the Virgin Islands (including both the British and the US Virgin Islands), as well as the Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe. The