PATRICK COUNTY, VA - VITALS - Marriage, William Sharp, Jr., to Peney Fitzgerald, 1811 ----¤¤¤---- Patrick County, Va., Marriage Book, pp. 391, 559 Groom: William SHARP, Jr., aka William N. SHARP Bride: Peney FITZGERALD Surety: Harvey FITZGERALD Date of License: 24 February 1811 Date of Bond: 24 February 1811 LICENSE Patrick County, to wit, I do hereby certify that William Sharp Jr. has performed the requisites required by law for obtaining a license to intermarry with Peney Fitzgerald of the said County of Patrick. These are therefore to authorize license and permit you to Join together in the holey estate of Wedlock according to the rights and ceremonies of your Church the said Wm. Sharp Jr. and Peney Fitzgerald -- And for so doing this shall be your sufficient warrant. Given from under my hand at office this 24th day of Feb. 1811 in the 35th year of the Commonwealth. To any Minister of the Gospell Saml. Staples Cl. P. Co. legally authorized to solemnize the rights of Matrimony BOND KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS THAT We, Wm. Sharp Jr. and Harvey Fitzgerald are held and firmly bound unto his Excellency James Monroe Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and his successors in office, in the just and full sum of One Hundred and Fifty Dollars. To which payment well and truly to be made, we bind outselves our heirs, etc. firmly by these presents, sealed with our seals and dated this 24th day of February 1811 and in the 35th year of the Commonwealth. THE CONDITION of the above obligation is such that whereas the said Wm. Sharp Jr. and Peney Fitzgerald hath this day obtained from the Clerk of the County of Patrick a LICENSE for his intermarying with Peney Fitzgerald of the said County of Patrick, now if there should be no lawful cause to obstruct, or why the said mariage, for which said license is granted, should or ought not to take place, then this obligation to be void. Acknowledged before me Wm. N. Sharp L.S. Abram Staples D.C. P.C. Harvy Fitzald L.S. (Transcribed by Mary C. Smith from photocopies provided by the Patrick County Circuit Court, Stuart, Va.) ___________________________________________________________________ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Mary Smith ___________________________________________________________________