Anderson S. Elam Marriage Record - Charlotte Co., Va.

Submitted by Annette E. Wetzel 4/98    (awetzel@juno.com)

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Charlotte C. H. June 24th 1879

Madam      Enclosed please find certified copy of the marriage
bond of Anderson S. Elam. On examination of the Records of my
office I could not find that there had been any return of the
Marriage License by the Minister who performed the rites of
Matrimony, but the bond will answer your purpose, and I hope you
will be successful in obtaining your pension.      My fee is
37th. Very respectfully, H. A. Carrington, Clerk

"Know all men by these presents that we Anderson S. Elam and
Samuel Weatherford, jr. are held and firmly bound unto James
Barbour esquire, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia in one
hundred and fifty Dollars to which payment will and ____ to be
made to the said James Barbour and his successors to the use of
the Commonwealth we bind ourselves our heirs, or family by these
presents. Sealed with our seals and dated this 7th day of
February 1814. The condition of the above obligation is such that
whereas there is a marriage intended to be solomnized between
Anderson Elam and Latisha Weatherford, daughter of Samuel
Weatherford, of said County who personally gave his consent, if
therefore there be no lawful cause to obstruct the same, then
this obligation to be void, else to remain of force and virtue,
signed & sealed in the presence of John H. Harding. Anderson S.
Elam Sam'l (x his mark) Weatherford, jr

State of Virginia Charlotte Co. to wit: I, H. A. Carrington Clerk
of the County Court of Charlotte County in the State of Virginia,
do certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the Marriage bond
of Anderson S. Elam from the records of my office. In testimony
whereof I have hereunto set my hand as Clerk of said Court and
affixed the seal of my said Office this 24th day of June A. D.
1879. H. A. Carrington Clerk"
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