Pipkin Family Association

NC Archives - Duplin County Marriage Bonds - Box 4
State of North Carolina
Duplin County

Know all men by these presents, that we Lovit Pipkin & Edmund Dunkan are held and firmly bound unto his Excellency James Turner Esquire, Captain-General, Governor and Commander in Chief, in and over the said State, in the sum of five hundred pounds, current money, to be paid to the said Governor, his successors or assigns; to the which payment, well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves, our heirs, executors, and administrators, jointly and severally, firmly by these presents. Sealed with our seals, and dated this 18th day of November A.D. 1805.

The Condition of the above obigation is such, that the above bounden Lovit Pipkin has made application for a license of marriage, to be celebrated between him and Kitsey Dunkan of the County aforesaid; now in case it should not hereafter appear that there is any lawful cause or impediment to obstruct such marriage, then the above obligation to be void - otherwise to remain in full force and virtue.

Lovit Pipkin
Edmund Dunkan

Signed, sealed and delivered in
the presence of
Wm Dickson C.C.