CHATHAM COUNTY, NC - MARRIAGES - William Williams to Rachel Kemp, 16 Mar 1786 ============================================================================ USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. This file was contributed for use in the North Carolina USGenWeb Archives by: Sarah Louise Garriott sgarriott@wal.org ============================================================================ 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 Recorded in friends records for Marriage Certificates No. Book A page 125 Williams Family Tree Beginning with Self: 1. Sarah Louise Williams (self) married to Jonathan Adam Garriott 2. Dennis Lawrence Williams (Father) 3. Wendell ("Bud") LeRoy Williams (Grandfather) 4. Lawrence Williams (Great Grandfather) 5. Eli Lansing Williams (2 Grandfather) 6. Milliken Caleb Williams (3 Grandfather) 7. Richard Williams (4 Grandfather) 8. William Williams (5 Grandfather) 9. William Williams (6) I have most all death and complete children and family information should anyone be interested in obtaining it. Submitted by: Sarah Louise Garriott 12531 SW 274th Lane Vashon, Washington 98070 Email: sgarriott@wal.org