Wayne County, NC - Nathan Pike & Rachel Maudlen Marriage Bond, 1781

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Eight Month, Fifteenth, 1781, Contentnea Meeting House

Whereas Nathan Pike son of Samuel Pike, and Rachel Maudlen daughter of
Edmund Maudlen both of the County of Dobbs in North Carolina having laid
their intentions to marriage with each other before several Monthly
Meetings of the people called Quakers in the county aforesaid whose
proceedings therein after a deliberate consideration with regard to the
Righteous Law of God and example of his people recorded in the Scriptures
of Truth were approved by said meeting and being found clear of other
marriage engagements and having consent of parents

Now these are to certify whom it may concern that for the full accomplishment
of said marriage the said Nathan Pike and Rachel Maudlen appeared in a public
meeting of the aforesaid people met together at Contentney in the county
aforesaid and then and there the said Nathan Pike taking the said Rachel
Maudlen by the hand declared as follows: "Friends you are my witnesses
that I take Rachel Maudlen to be my wife promising through Divine assistance
to be unto her a true and loving husband until death separate us" and the
said Rachel Maudlen did in like manner openly declare as follows: "Friends
you are my witnesses that I take Nathan Pike to be my husband promising
through Divine assistance to be unto him a true and loving wife until death
separate us" (or words to that effect)

And for further confirmation hereof the said Nathan Pike and Rachel Pike
his wife, she according to custom assuming the name of her husband, have to
these presents set their hands

                                               Nathan Pike
                                               Rachel Pike

And we whose names are under written being present at the solemnization of
said marriage and subscription have as witnesses there unto subscribed our
names this 15th day of 8th Mo. 1781

            Thomas Saint                     Edmund Maudlin
            Joseph Dew                       Samuel Pike
            Robert Bogue                     Josiah Peele
            Mary Perisho                     Isaac Hall
            Reuben Peele                     Jesse Bogue
            Ann Hastings                     Anna Pearson
            Jane Saint

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