Marriage Bond:  Samuel EARLY and Rebecca CAMPBELL, 1804:  Augusta County, VA
Source:  Augusta County Marriage Bonds, Staunton, Virginia, Vol. 10, 1804-05.
Contributor:  Maggie Phillips <dcmyp@erols.com>
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Augusta County Virginia:  14 June 1804 Marriage Bond for Samuel EARLY
and Rebecca CAMPBELL

    Document 1:

Know all men by these presents that we Samuel Early and John Campbell
are held and firmly bound unto John Page Esquire governor of Virginia
and his successors for the use of the Commonwealth in the sum of one
hundred and fifty dollars to which payment will and truly be made we 
bind ourselves our heirs executors and administrators jointly and 
severally firmly by this presents sealed and dated this 10th day of 
July 1804.  The condition of the above obligation is such that whereas 
a marriage is shortly intended to be soleminized between the above 
bound Samuel Early Bachelor and Rebecca Campbell Spinister daughter 
of Alexander Campbell decd late of Augusta county if therefore there 
shall be no lawful cause to obstruct the said marriage then the above 
obligation to be void, otherwise to remain in full force and virtue 
signed sealed and delivered in the presents of

                                    Samuel Early (SEAL)


                                        his
                                    John X Campbell
                                        mark
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Document 2:

Augusta County to wit:

    I John Campbell of the said County do swear that my sister Rebecca 
Campbell, daughter of Alexander Campbell decd who is about to intermarry 
with Samuel Early is past the age of twenty one years and that she normally 
resides in this said County of Augusta.  Given unto my hand this 10th day 
of June 1804

Sworn to before
me this date above
                                                  his
C. Kinney                                     John X Campbell
                                                  mark
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Reverse Side of Document 2:

Augusta County to wit

I John Campbell of the said County do swear that I have been acquainted with 
Samuel Early who is about to intermarry with my sister Rebecca Campbell for 
twelve years past and from his age at that time do verify I know he is past 
the age of twenty years and also I heard his father Daniel Early say that he 
was past the age twenty one years.  Given unto in my hand this 10th day of 
July 1804

                                                   his
                                               John X Campbell
                                                   mark

Sworn before me
this date:
    C Kinney


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