JEFFERSON COUNTY, TN - VITALS - Marriage License and Bond, John Jacobs to Elizabeth Bettis Kimbrough ----¤¤¤---- State of Tennessee, Jefferson County. To any regular Minister of the Gospel having the care of souls or any Justice of the Peace for said county; GREETING Joseph Hamilton, Clerk of the county court for the County of Jefferson aforesaid, by virtue of the power in me vested by law, DO LICENSE YOU or either of YOU, to celebrate the Rites of Matrimony between John Jacobs and Elizabeth Kimbrough by uniting them together as HUSBAND and WIFE. Given at office in Dandridge the 23 day of December Anno Domini, 1840 and of American Independence the 66. Joseph Hamilton, Clk Know all men by these Presents, That We John Jacobs and Thomas Walker are held and firmly bound to James K. Polk Governor of the State of Tennessee and his successors in office, in the sum of Twelve Hundred and Fifty Dollars, to be void on condition that there be no lawful cause to prevent a Marriage from being solemnized in the county of Jefferson between John Jacobs and Elizabeth Bettis Kimbrough. Witness our hands and seals this 23 day of December Anno Domini, 1840 John Jacobs (seal) Thomas Walker (seal) ___________________________________________________________________ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Ray Ezell ___________________________________________________________________