Copy
Know all men by these presents that we Aaron stacy and
Charles Littlejohn are held and firmly bound unto his Excellency
Richard Caswell Esqr Governor of North Carolina or his successor
in Office in the sum of Five hundred pounds to the which pay-
ment will and truly to be made we bind ourselves our kin
jointly and severally firmly by these presents sealed with our seals
and dated this 12th day of December Anno Domini (1779) One
thousand seven hundred and seventy nine.
The Condition of the above obligation is such
that whereas there is a marriage shortly expected to be solem-
nized and had between the above bound Aaron Stacy and
Nancy Bullock. _____ Now if there be no lawful cause
to obstruct the said marriage for which said license was
granted then this obligation to be void, else to remain in full
full
force Power and Virtue.
his
Signed Sealed and
delivered
Aaron X Stacy (init)*
in presence
of
mark
William Steel Charles Littlejohn (init)*
North
Carolina
Halifax
County I James Simmons Clerk of the
Court of
Pleas and Quarter Sessions for Said County Certify that the
forgoing is a true and exact copy of the marriage bond of
Aaron Stacy to marry Nancy Bullock taken from the
Original filed in my office with the exception of the date
which is written in the above copy but in the original is
expressed in a fair legible figure then, December 12th 1779
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed my seal
of Office at the Office this in Halifax
this 17th day of May 1843
Jas Simmons