MARR: WATKINS / BERRY - 1822 - Whitley Co, KY
Date: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 5:52 PM
Submitted by: Betty Watkins Neu
(http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00002.html#0000325)
Date: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 5:52 PM

Marriage bond:  WATKINS / BERRY 1822  Whitley Co, KY

This is a document written and signed in Whitley Co, KY, for my great,
great grandfather, Baker E. Watkins, who was a physician and Methodist
Church circuit rider and for John Berry.  It reads thus:  "Know all men by
these present that we Baker E. Watkins and John W. Berry are held and firmly
bound unto the Commonwealth of Kentucky in the final sum of 50 lbs for the
payment of which well and Truly to be made we bind ourselves our heirs
constitution and administration jointly and severally firmly by these present
writing our hand and seal this 3rd day of April 1822.  The condition of the 
above obligation is such that if there should be no legal cause to obstruct
a marriage shortly intended to be solemnized between the said Watkins and 
Sally Berry then the above obligation to be void otherwise to be and remain
in full force and virtue.        	   Baker E. Watkins

 
E. B. Campbell                             John W. Berry

to The Commonwealth 1822 Recorded

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