Person:John Bell (124)

Marriage Bond of John Bell and Johanna Terrell

Whereas, John Bell, son of Nathan Bell, of the County of Hanover, and Joanna Terrell, daughter of Thomas Terrell, of the County of Caroline, having declared their intentions of taking each other in marriage before two Monthly Meetings of the people called Quakers, according to the good order used among them, and having permission of parents and Friends concerned.

These are to certify all whom it may concern, that for the full accomplishment of their said marriage that they, the said John Bell and Joanna Terrell, appearing at a Publick Meeting of the aforesaid people and others at their Meeting House in Caroline County the twelfth day of the Fifth month One Thousand and Eight Hundred, and the said John Bell taking the said Joanna 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 Joanna Terrell to be my wife, promising, with Divine assistance, to be unto her a true and loving husband until death." And then and there in the same assembly the said Joanna Terrell did in like manner declare as followeth: "In the presence of the Lord and before this assembly I take this my friend John Bell to be my husband, promising, with Divine assistance, to be unto him a true and loving wife until death" (or words to that purport), and as a further confirmation of their said marriage the said John Bell and Joanna, his now wife (she assuming the name of her husband), have hereunto set their hands, and we whose names are hereunto subscribed being present at the solemnization and subscription, have as witnesses set out hands, the day and year above written.

(signed) John Bell, Joanna Bell.

Witnesses :—Thomas Terrell, Joseph Terrell, Rebecca Bell, Margaret Terrell, Pleasant Cobb, Jonathan Terrell, Ann Peatross, Jesse Terrell, Lemuel Crew, Rebecca Terrell, Mathew Terrell, Timothy Terrell, Nancy Chiles, Caty Terrell, Mary B. Terrell, Sally Terrell, Pleasant Terrell, Lewis Cobb, Amey Cobb, Mary Bell.

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