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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