Person:Lemuel Terrell (1)

Marriage Bond of Lemuel Terrell

Our Quaker Friends of ye olden time", by James Pinkney, Pleasant Bell, 1918:

Whereas, Lemuel Terrell, son of Pleasant Terrell, deceased, of the County of Caroline, and Rebecca Terrell, daughter of Thomas Terrell, of the said County, having declared their intentions of taking each other in marriage before two Monthly Meetings of Friends, according to the good order used among them, and having consent of parents and Friends concerned.

These are to certify all whom it may concern, that for the full accomplishment of their said marriage, they, the said Lemuel Terrell and Rebecca Terrell, appearing in a Publick Assembly of the aforesaid people and others in the County of Caroline, this 15th day of the Fourth month 1804, and the said Lemuel Terrell, taking the said Rebecca Terrell by the hand, did in a solemn manner declare as followeth: "In the presence of the Lord and before this assembly, I take this my friend Rebecca Terrell to be my wife, promising, with Divine assistance, to be unto her a true and loving husband until death shall separate us," and then and there in the same assembly the said Rebecca Terrell did in like manner declare as followeth: "In the presence of the Lord and before this assembly, I take this my friend Lemuel Terrell to be my husband, promising, with Divine assistance, to be unto him a true and loving wife until death shall separate us" (or words to that purport). And as a further confirmation of their said marriage, the said Lemuel Terrell and Rebecca, his wife, have hereunto set their hands. And we whoso names are hereunto subscribed, being present at the solemnization and subscription, have hereunto as witnesses set our hands, the day and year above written.

Lemuel Terrell, Rebecca Terrell. Witnesses:—Joseph Terrell, Mathew Terrell, Pleasant Cobb, Timothy Terrell, Pleasant Terrell, John Bell, Chiles Terrell, Joseph Hargrave, Miriam Terrell, Reuben T. Clarke, William Fitzhugh, Sarah Terrell, Ann Peatross, Caty Terrell, Mary B. Terrell, Mary Terrell, Lucy Hargrave, Rhoda Cobb, Robert Terrell, Christopher G. Broaddus, Rhoda Peatross, Patsey Hargrave.