Person:Joseph Hargrave (1)

Marriage Bond of Joseph Hargrave and Rachel Terrell

Whereas, Joseph Hargrave, son of Samuel Hargrave, deceased, of Caroline County, and Rachel Terrell, daughter of Pleasant Terrell, of the said County, having publickly declared their intentions of taking each other in marriage, before several Monthly Meetings of the people called Quakers in said County of Hanover, according to the good order used amongst them whose proceedings therein was approved by the Meeting, they appearing clear of all other engagements, and having consent of parents and Friends.

Now these are to certify all whom it may concern, that for the accomplishment of their said intentions, this 14th day of the 3rd month 1790, they, the said Joseph Hargrave and Rachel Terrell, appearing in a publick assembly at our Meeting House in Caroline County, and in a solemn manner he, the said Joseph Hargrave, taking the said Rachel Terrell by the hand, did openly declare as followeth: "Friends, you are my witnesses that I take Rachel Terrell to be my wife, promising, with Divine assistance, to be unto her a faithful husband until death," or words to that effect, and then and there, in the said assembly, she, the said Rachel Terrell, did declare in substance as followeth: "Friends, ye are my witnesses that I take Joseph Hargrave to be my husband, promising, with Divine assistance, to be unto him a faithful wife until death," and the said Jos. Hargrave and Rachel, his now wife, as a further confirmation thereof, did then and there to these presents set their hands, and we whose names are hereunto subscribed, being present at the solemnizing of the above said marriage and subscription, as witnesses have hereunto set our hands, the day and date as above.

Joseph Hargrave, Rachel Hargrave. Witnesses:—Pleasant Terrell, Jesse Hargrave, Samuel Hargrave, Thomas Hargrave, Samuel Terrell, John Hargrave, Robert Terrell, Obadiah Crew, Christopher Terrell, William Burrus, Polley Hewlett, Henry Burruss, Mathew P. Terrell, Pleasant Cobbs, Jonathan Terrell, John Peatross, Clark T. Moorman, Thomas Terrell, Samuel Chiles, Milliccnt Hargrave, Nancy Terrell, Amey Cobbs, Rebecca Terrell, Rachel Moorman, Margaret Terrell, Salley Terrell, Rhoda Terrell, Rhoda Moorman, Judith Harris, Elizabeth Cheadle, Lucy Hargrave, Ursula Cheadle, Lucy Temple, Catharine Ellis, Susana Hargrave, Molley Terrell, Sarah Terrell, Lealy Cobbs, Millicent Hewlett.

[Source: Our Quaker Friends of Ye Olden Time, by James Pinkney, Pleasant Bell, 1918]

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