Excerpt from hand-written marriage certificate found in the Williams Family Bible:

"Whereas William Williams son of William & Margaret Williams and Rachel Kemp daughter of 
Richard & Susanna Kemp all of Chatham County in North Carolina having declared their Intentions
 of Marriage with Each other before several Monthly Meetings of the people called Quakers at 
Cane Creek in the County of [illegible] above said and according to the good order used 
amongest them, they having consent of Parties concerned their said Proposals was allowed by 
said Meetings.

[Illegible]...these are its [illegible] whom it may concern that for the full Accomplishing 
of their said intentions this sixteenth day of the third month in the year of Our Lord One 
thousand seven hundred Eighty and six; They the said William Williams & Rachel Kemp appeared 
At a public meeting of the said People at their Meeting house of Cane Creek afforsaid--And the 
said William Williams taking the said Rachel Kemp by the hand did in a solomn manner openly 
declare that he took her the said Rachel Kemp to be his wife, promising with divine assistance 
to be unto her a true and faithfull husband untill death should seperate them or words to the 
same effect. Then and there in the same assembly the said Rachel Kemp did in like manner 
openly declare that she took him the said William Williams to be her husband promising with 
divine assistance to be unto him a true and faithful wife untill death should seperate them 
or words to that purpose. 

Moreover, they the said William Williams and Rachel Kemp, she according to the custom of 
Marriage assumming the Name of her husband as a further confirmation thereof did then and 
there to those presents set their hand and we whose names are underneath, subscribed being present at the solomnization thereof so as witnessess hereunto also subscribe our names the
day and year above.


William Williams
Rachel Kemp 


Peter Stout, William Adams, Charley Stout, John Marshill, [illegible], Peter S. , 
Daniel Treenian (or Freenian), John Davies, Mary Davies, Jacob Marshill, Margaret Marshill, 
Abigail [illegible], William [illegibe], Hugh Maxwell, Amos Way, Sarah Ward, Priscilla Ward, 
Owen Williams, Daniel Williams, Susannah Williams, Benjamin Piggott, Richard Kemp, Joseph Kemp,
Prudence Kemp, John Pike, Joseph Buckingham, Aleser Campbell, John Williams, Rachel Kemp, 
Susanna Kemp, Joshua Chamness, Mary Williams, Mary Kemp, Margaret Pike, Enoch Williams, 
Abigail Pike, Mary Pike