New Hanover County, North Carolina--Marriages--Cherry/Bowden, 1854 ==================================================================== These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. 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 USGenWeb Archives by: Sloan S. Mason ==================================================================== MARRIAGE CONTRACT Anna Jane CHERRY to William S. BOWDEN Transcribed by Sloan Mason. From the Estate of the late Evelyn Bizzell HARDY of Kinston, N.C., with kind permission of her family. STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA New Hanover County Know all men by these presents that I, Anna Jane CHERRY in a Marriage Contract with William S. BOWDEN that I William S. BOWDEN do release and quit claim all my rite title and interest to all the property now in possession of said Anna Jane CHERRY and she the said Anna Jane CHERRY shall hold possession of all her --- said Anna Jane CHERRY Land, negroes, and money to her own use and to the use of her children which may be Born hereafter given under my Hand and Seal. Oct. 21st, 1854. Signed: William S. BOWDEN Witness: J. S. BOWDEN?