Marriage Bonds of FPOC

11 November 2007

Notice: the formatting of this post was originally set up as a table, but that is not very accessible. I have channged formatting tomake the posts more accessible and hopefully in the process easier to read.

Hi folks,

here are some marriage bonds I copied from books of marriage bonds at the State Archives of North Carolina. This are arranged by County. I do not have all the counties, only a few, and these are only for marriages before 1866. For the last one in Orange County, they were not marked as (col.) as the others, but they are included because I know they were free persons of color. I've kept the text of the actual entry as it was listed in the books, but the format is off because of the limitations of blogspot. Page number refers to the page number in that particular county's book. The name of the book is in italics and the archives do no use call number for their books.

Caswell County Marriage Bonds

Entries are in order of: groom, bride, date bond was filed, bondsman, date of marriage, who officiated (minister or Justice of the Peace) and page.

• Stevens, William x (col.), Rosetta Hughes (col.), 11 June 1859, Johns (x) Freeman, md. 11 June 1859 by N. M. Lewis, J.P., p295

Nash County Marriage Bonds

Entries are in order of: groom, bride, date bond was filed, bondsman,witness, and page.

• Nathan Boon, Frances Scott, 31 Jan. 1859, Ira W. Futrell, (w) Isaac Peele C.C.C., p19
• William Boon, Eliza Franciss Boon, 22 Dec. 1852, Shadrach -x- Boon, (w) Wm. H. Hughes D.O., p20

Orange County Marriage Bonds

Entries are in order of: groom, bride, date bond was filed, bondsman,witness, and page.

• Ruffin Stewart, Elizabeth Bibby, 30 Aug. 1838, Robert x Mitchell, (w) J. Taylor, p379