Cumberland and Anson; John Pyle, Esquire, of the County of Chatham; William Field, James Hunter, Robert Fields, Jeremiah Fields and Jarymore York, Esqurs., of the County of Guilford; Michael Holt and James Monro, Esquires, of the County of Orange; Paul Barringer, Esqr., of the County of Mecklenburg; William Spurgian, William Bryan, Samuel Bryan and Mathias Sappingfield, Esquires, of the County of Rowan; Gideon Wright and James Glyn, Esq., of the County of Surry; and Philemon Hawkins, Senior, and Philemon Hawkins, Junior, Esquires, of the County of Bute:

I, reposing especial trust & Confidence in your Loyalty, Courage, Prudence and fidelity, do by virtue of the Powers & Authorities in me vested by his Majesty, hereby commissionate, authorize & impower you whose names are above written and each and every of you to erect the King's Standard and to raise, levy & array in arms all his Majesty's loyal & faithful subjects within your respective Counties or in any part or parts of this Province, who are willing and ready to repair to the royal Banner for the support of the Laws and Constitution thereof against the most horrid and unnatural Rebellion that has been excited therein by traitorous, wicked & designing Men & no w threatens the subversion of his Majesty's Government & the utter destruction of the Right & Liberties of his Majesty's People, & I hereby give & grant to you power & authority to form the forces you shall so raise into Companies of fifty men each, & to appoint one Captain, one Lieutenant & an Ensign to every Company so formed, whose appointment as well as this Commission shall be good, valid and effectual during my Pleasure, and I do hereby give to each and every of you full power & authority to seize and take whatsoever may be necessary of Arms, Ammunition, Provisions, Horses and Carriages for the subsistence & accommodation of his Majesty's faithful subjects, whom you shall assemble in Arms for the purpose aforesaid. You giving Receipts for the same or keeping account thereof, that satisfaction may be made to the Owner or Owners, if they are not engaged in rebellion.

And I do hereby give to each and every of you full power and authority to resist and oppose all Rebels and Traitors against his Majesty & his Government, by force & arms & to apprehend & seize & detain them, their accomplices & abettors & you are hereby required immediately & with all possible secrecy to concert a plan of general Rendezvous for your forces, thence to march in a body by such Route as you shall Judge proper to Brunswick, so ordering your movements that you may reach that Town on the fifteenth day of February next ensuing, making prisoners in your way all such persons as you know to be principals or active in Rebellion, taking all possible

care that Women & Children are unmolested, that no cruelty whatever be committed to sully the Honor & Arms of Britons & freemen employed in the glorious & Righteous Cause of rescuing & delivering their Country from the usurpation of Rebellion & that no violence be done against the laws of Humanity, but Resistance shall be necessary to the end that the people who have been deluded into Rebellion may be sensible it is his Majesty's most gracious and royal Intention & my Earnest desire to reclaim them to a proper sense of their duty & obedience to lawful Government without involving the Country in the horrors of war if by timely & dutiful submission they make such extremities avoidable.

And whereas there may be many of his Majesty's faithful subjects in this Province whose merits and influence may qualify them to take part in the execution of this Commission whom I have omitted for want of knowledge of them & their Principals & their good Dispositions, I do hereby give full Power & Authority to you who are herein named to Join with you in the Execution of the Powers granted to you, by this commission every such Person or Persons as you shall deem worthy of such high Trust and Confidence hereby declaring that each & every such Person or Persons as you shall think fit to join with you in the Execution of these Presents shall have equal power & authority as if they were herein particularly named.

In pursuance of the Trust reposed in you.

Given under my Hand & Seal at Arms on Board his Majesty's Sloop Scorpion, in Cape Fear River, this Tenth day of January, 1776, & in the fifteenth year of his Majesty's Reign.

Vera Copia.

JO. MARTIN.

ABSTRACT OF BERTIE COUNTY

MARRIAGE BONDS.

(Originals in office of the Clerk of the Superior Court, at Windsor, N. C.)

1820.

Sept. 18. Jesse Wood.

Feb. 18.

Feb. 18. Jas. Rutland.
Jan. 13. Wm. King.

Baker, Samuel and Lizzie Baker.
Granberry, Sam'l and Patsey Bailey.
King, Timothy and Nancy Garrett.
Morgan, Seth and Delilah Smith. Jan. 19. Harry Phelps.
Phelps, Henry and Martha Brown. Jan. 19. Seth Morgan.
South, Samuel and Clarissa Hyman. Aug 30.

1821.

Brown, Rowan and Celia Peele. March 5. Harry Phelps.
Cobb, John H. and Harriet Castellow. April 28. Jas. McGlauhon.
Early, Thomas and Betsey Mitchell. Sept. 25. Lod Jenkins.
Jones, Jas. C. and Lavinia Brickell. Sept. 6. Jno. W. Willoughby.
Layton, Stephen and Angy Ray. April 13. Jno. Miller.
Miller, John and Penny Ray. Jan. 30. Wm. Mizell.

Morris, James and Tempe Willoughby. Sept. 6. Jno. W. Willoughby.

Outlaw, James and Nancy Floyd. Feb. 20.
Pritchard, Alsey and Phebe Jernagan. Oct. 3.
Parker, Wm. and Elizabeth Lewis. March 3. Elisha Parker.
Wynns, Wm. Watkins and Mary Williford. May. 14. G. Wynns.
Waterridge, Wm. and Mildred Thompson. March 31. Wm. Deanes.
Wynn, John and Leedy Harrell. Dec. 18. Jeremiah Outlaw.

1822.

Weston, Wm. and Susanna Hoggard. Jan. 1. Zaccheus Champion.

Combs, Jesse and Betsey Allen.

1823

Dec. 20.
Dec. 20.

Wm. Overton.

Feb. 25.

Benj. Bartlett.

Dec.

4.

Godwin Cotten.

James, Wm. and Marina Butler.

Patterson, Moses and Marina Swett.

Reed, Johnston and Winney Pugh. Dec. 2. J. Simons.

1824

Barnacastle, Sam'l and Matilda Jones. 1824.

B. Barnacastle.

Blackston, Thos. H. and Elizabeth Boyce. Dec. 10. J. S. Tayloe. Combs, Jesse and Betsey Brogdon. Jan. 1.

Dawson, James and Maria Jordan.

Jan. 11.

Wm. Overton.

Aug. 12.

Wm. Deanes.

Deanes, Peterson and Martha Walker.
Hunt, Malachi and Sarah H. Cooper. May 12. Jno. W. Cole.
Hoggard, David and Sally Meezles. Jan. 3. Jno. Mizell.
Parker, Abraham and Elizabeth Baker. July 13. Dan'l Powell.
Skiles, Chas. P. and Mary Capps. Aug. 7. Wm. Johnston.

1825.

Cobb, Harmon W. and Prudence Bowen. Jan. 20. C. Bowen.

1826.

Gaskins, Thomas and Frances Rea. Dec. 13.

Haywood, John and Rebecca Palmer.

Dec. 26.
Dec. 26. Geo. B. Outlaw.

Marshall, Sam'l and Mary Stone. Dec. 26. Nazareth Williford.

Williams, James and Nancy Henry.
Yeates, Edward and Eliz Seals, Sr.

1827.

Dec. 27.

Dec. 23. Sam'l South.

April 5.

March 10. Wm. Mitchell.

May 2.

M. B. D. Palmer.
Jesse Bowen.
Wm. H. Green.

Jas. Tucker.

Sept. 29. Thos. Ruffin.

Butler, Leven and Harriet Mizells.
Blume, Benj. B. and Eliz Godwin.
Bowen, Cornelius and Charlotte Todd.
Bird, Richard and Clarissa Butler. Aug. 13.
Byrum, and Nancy Page. Aug. 30.
Bishop, Wm. and Mary Horn.
Cowand, Bennett and Nannie Johnston. Oct. 29. Reuben White.
Castellow, James and Kiddy Hoggard. Feb. 16. C. Capehart.
Calloway, John and Anna Temples. June 21. Saul South.
Conley, Peter M. and Jessey Williford. July 7. Mat. B. Palmer.
Carter, Thomas and Ailsey Mizell. Aug. 2. Elijah Raynor.
Cherry, Wm. W. and Mary Etheridge. Aug. 6.

Drew, Whitmell H. and Eliz Butler. Oct. 13. Wm. H. Green.
Davis, Thomas and Eliz Swain. Feb. 28. Wm. Swain.
Fife, John and Judeth Thomas.

March 23. Wm. W. Cherry.

Garrett, Amariah and Eliz Copeland. Oct. 4. Sam'l G. Hyman.

Jan. 6. Lodowick Jenkins.

April 1. Jno. Stewart. June 13. Sam'l South. July 17. Lydia Spivey. Aug. 29. P. M. Conley.

Haze, Lodwick and Mary Jenkins.
Hornsby, Sam'l and Winnefred Moore.
Hodder, James and Sally Lednum.
Hoggard, Drew and Patsey Miers.
King, Noah and Sarah F. Rascoe.
Myers, George and Eliz Kale. Feb. 15. Sam' Horn.
Myles, Isaac and Nancy Thomas. March 10. Wm. M. Asbell.
Morris, Matthew and Penelope Jernigan. March 23. Wm. Watford.
Morgan, and Offa Curry. June 1. Chas. Cobb.
Mitchell, Wright and Martha Ann Outlaw.
Pender, Riddick and Nancy Hambleton. June 4.
Plummer, Wm. and Eliza Armistead. June 18. J. R. Lloyd.
Powell, Cader and Celia Williams. June 27. Geo. Jenkins.

Dec. 19.

Wm. Hambleton.

Peele, James and Harriet Acree.
Rhea, Simon D. and Eliz Hodges.
Rowe, Micajah and Nancy Rhodes.

Dec. 17.

April 7. P. M. Conley.
May 15. Blake D. Raby.

Ryan, Marcus C. and Margaret E. Leggett. Dec. 20. David Ryan. Sessoms, Harrell B. and Harriet Eason. July 2. Jas. S. Beck.

Aug 8.

Jesse Farmer.

Norfleet.

Jan. 5. A. Andrews.

April 7.

Medy White.

July 5.

Jno. B. Williams.

Tayloe, Abraham and Nancy Pike.
Urquhart, Richard A. and Mary R.
White, George and Patsey Powell.
Webb, Thos. B. and Sally T. Nicholls.
Williford, Wm. and Jennett Early. July 7.
Williford, James and Jersey Capehart. July 19.
Weston, Thomas S. and Martha Gregory. July 7.
Yeates, William and Ava Waters. June 13. Sam'l South.

1828.

May 22.
June 14.

John Leicester.

Levy Castellaw.

E. B. Weston.

Aug. 21. Joshua Bowen. Jan. 21. Wm. Barnes.

Baker, David and Polly Jernigan. Jan. 17. Lewis Jernigan.
Butler, Wm. and Judah Hughes. Feb. 11. Wm. Watford.
Bazemore, Peyton and Penelope Johnston. Feb. 20. Jos. Thomas.
Bizzell, Elisha and Betsey Love.
Butler, Ryan and Betsey Boswell.
Bowen, Edward and Harriet Myers.
Cullipher, Wm. and Eliz Barnes.
Conly, Peter M. and Harriet Green.
Cook, Alfred and Martha Glisson.
Cobb, Thomas and Huldah Bowen.
Early, Asa and Sarah Williford.
Griffin, Willie and Martha Thomas. March 1. W. C. Byrd.
Hoggard, Edward and Penny Culipher, Nov. 29. Cullen Bunch.
Johnston, Hardy H. and Temperance Butler. June 12.

March 15. Will Landrum. April 3. Whitmell Higgs. May 22. Jno. Keeter. July 3. Jas. Williford.

Oct. 15.

John Johnston.
Aaron Mizell.

Keeter, John and Creecy Cullipher.
Mizell, George and Nancy Gaskins. Jan. 22.
Manley, King and Nancy Hill. July 3.
Peale, Amos and Nancy Davison. Feb. 14. Edw'd Hardy.
Pilant, Enoch and Fanny Minton. March 8.
Pugh, Francis R. and Mary Ann Rascoe. Dec. 15.
Rascoe, James and Mrs. Ann E. Rhodes. Jan. 29.
Rascoe, John and Eliz Weston. April 8.
Rutland, Norsworthy and Eliz Rutland. May 12. R. H. Barnes.
Rayner, Sam'l and Harriet Coward. June 25. Rich'd P. Freeman.

June 19.

Jona S. Tayloe.
Sam'l South.

Aquila Todd.

March 20. Gray B. King.

Todd, James and Mary Mitchell. June 19.
Worley, Wm. and Martha A. Frame.
Williams, Leroy and Sally Hyman.
Weston, Ephraim and Harriet Hyman.