Marriage Bond
of
Squire Raby and Nancy Mourfield
October
24, 1836
Knox
County Tennessee
transcription below
Know all men by these Presents, that We,
Squire Raby & John Raby
Are held and firmly bound to NEWTON CANNON, governor of the
State of Tennessee, and his successors in office, in the sum of Twelve
Hundred
and fifty dollars, to be void on condition that there is no lawful
cause to prevent a
Marriage from being solemnized in the county of Knox
between
Squire Raby and Nancy Mourfield.
Witness our bands and seals, this 24th day of October
Anno Domini, 1836
Squire Raby
John Raby
State of Tennessee, Knox County
To any regular Minister of the Gospel having the care of souls or any
Jus-
tice of the Peace for said county;
GREETING.
I, Moses M Swan Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter
Sessions for the county of Knox aforesaid, by virtue
of the power in me
vested by law, DO LICENSE YOU, or EITHER of YOU, to celebrate the Rites
of Matrimony between Squire Raby and
Nancy Mourfield by uniting them together as
HUSBAND and WIFE.
Given at Office, in Knoxville the 24th
day of October
Anno Domini, 1836 and of American Independence the...
M M Swan Clerk