Person:Samuel Hargrave (1)

Marriage Bond of Samuel Hargrave and Lucy Terrell

Whereas Samuel Hargrave, son of Samuel Hargrave, deceased, of the county of Caroline, and Lucy Terrell, daughter of Pleasant Terrell, of said county, having declared their intentions of marriage with each other before several Monthly Meetings of the people called Quakers in Virginia, according to the good order used among them; and having consent of parents, and relations concerned, their said proposal of marriage was allowed by the said Meeting. Now these are to certify whom it may concern that for the full accomplishing their said intentions this the Tenth Day of the First Month in the year of our Lord, One Thousand, Seven Hundred and Seventy Nine, they, the said Samuel Hargrave, and Lucy Terrell, appearing in a public meeting of the said people and others in Caroline county, and the said Samuel Hargrave, taking the said Lucy Terrell by the hand, did in a solemn manner openly declare that he took her, the said Lucy Terrell, to be his wife, promising, with Divine assistance, to be unto her a faithful and loving Husband until death shall separate them (or words to that effect), and then and there in the said assembly the said Lucy Terrell did in like manner declare that she took the said Samuel Hargrave to be her Husband, promising, as aforesaid, to be unto him a faithful and loving wife until deatli should separate them (or words to the same purport). And, moreover, they, the said Samuel Hargrave and Lucy Terrell (she, according to the custom of marriage, assumed the name of her Husband), 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 solemnization of the said marriage have as witnesses hereunto set our hands, the day and year first above written.

(signed) Samuel Hargrave,

Witnesses:—Pleasant Terrell, Mary Hargrave, David Terrell, Elizabeth Hargrave, Micajah Terrell, Mary Harris, Thomas Terrell, Salley Chiles, Thomas Chiles, Elizabeth Terrell, Jesse Hargrave, Rachel Burruss, Judith Cheadle, Anthony Winston, Ann McGhee, Lucy Cheadle, George Winston, Rachel Moorman, Deborah Terrell, Robt. Farish, Molley Chiles, Steven Farish, Rebecca Winston.

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