HICKERSON JOHNSON  Marriage Bond - Charlotte Co., VA

     Provided by Carol Renner March 1998


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Know all men by these presents that we, Hickerson Johnson and Matthew
Davenport are held and firmly bound unto William C. Nicholas Esquire
Governor of the commonwealth of Virginia in one hundred and fifty
dollars to which payment well and truly to be made to the said William
C. Nicholas and his successors, to the use of the commonweath, we bind
ourselves, our heirs firmly by these presents. Sealed with our seals and
dated this 5th day of February 1816.
The condition of the above obligation is such that whereas there is a
marriage intended to be solomnized between Hickerson Johnson and Anne
B.Johnson daughter of James Johnson who consents to same--
If therefore there be no lawful cause to obstruct the same then this
obligation to be void else to remain of forced virtue. Hickerson Johnson
{seal}
      Matthew Davenport {seal}
Signed and sealed in presence of 
Winslow Robinson               

MR 2, p.551 (303-719)
Copy-Teste Stuart B. Fallen, Clerk
Charlotte Co.,VA
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Transcribed as written from photocopy of document by Carol Renner,
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