Person:Robert Ladd (10)

Marriage Bond of Robert Ladd and Mart Terrell

Whereas, Robert Ladd, son of William Ladd, deceased, of Charles City County, and Mary Terrell, daughter of Pleasant Terrell, deceased, of Caroline County, having declared their intention of taking each other in marriage before several Monthly Meetings of Friends held at Cedar Creek in Hanover County, according to the

good order used among them, their proceedings, after due inquiry and deliberate consideration, being approved, and having consent of parents and Friends.

Now, these are to certify all whom it may concern, that for the accomplishment of their said marriage this 15th day of the Sixth month, in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Seven, they, the said Robert Ladd and Mary Terrell, appeared at a Publick Assembly of Friends and others in Caroline County, and the said Robert Ladd, taking the said Mary Terrell by the hand, did openly and solemnly declare as follows: "In the presence of this assembly, I take Mary Terrell to be my wife, promising, with Divine assistance, to be unto her a faithful and loving husband until death shall separate us," and the said Mary Terrell did then and there in the said assembly, in like manner declare as as follows: "In the presence of this assembly, I take Robert Ladd to be my husband, promising, with Divine assistance, to be unto him a faithful and loving wife until death shall separate us," and the said Robert Ladd and Mary, his wife, as a further confirmation of their said marriage, did then and there to these presents set their hands, and wo whose names are hereunto subscribed, being present at the solemnization of said marriage and subscription, have as witnesses thereof set our hands, the day and year above written.

Robert Ladd, Mary Ladd. • Witnesses:—Robert Terrell, Joseph Terrell, Jesse Crew, Benjamin Crew, Thomas Cobb, Lucy Terrell, Mary B. Terrell, Sally Terrell, Nancy Terrell, Lucy Hargrave, Jesse Ladd, Joseph Ladd, Walter Crew, Pleasant Terrell, Pleasant Cobb, Ann Johnson, Amey Cobb, Mahala Terrell, Susan W. Mills, Nancy Crew, Ann Ladd, Margaret Vaughan.

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