[ansel12]

In my genealogy research I’m finding a lot of ancestors on the frontier who lived together as husband and wife for years before a traveling minister would come along and marry them.

"Lot's" of ancestors on the frontier with no access to a minister or official or who could post a Bann on a church door or obtain a license, that is a little hard to believe that you would have lot's of them.

What years were these, in which colonies or states?

[cripplecreek]

I wasn’t talking to you, boy. Besides, you didn’t answer me so you can kiss my ass.