Amanuensis Monday~Marriage of Rowland Honeycut and Patsey Taylor, 1797

Amanuensis Monday is a genealogy blogging theme. It was started by John Newmark who writes the TransylvanianDutch blog.

His definition of Amanuensis is:
Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another.

Today’s subject is the Marriage of Rowland Honeycut and Patsey Taylor, 1797.¹

Rowland Honeycut and Patsey Taylor

Married 20 December 1797

Rutherford County, NC

Transcription:

State of North Carolina
We the subscribers are jointly and severally held + firmly bound to his Excellency Samuel Ashe Esquire + his Sucefsors in office in the sum of five hundred pounds to be void only on conditions that there is no obstructions in a marriage intended to be celebrated between Rowland Honeycut and Patsey Taylor Witnefs Our hands and Seals this 20^th December 1797.
Attest.
R. T. Lewis, Clk.                                                      {Seal}
                                                                 John Taylor
                                                                  For Rowland Honeycut

Rowland Honeycut, son of Randolph Hunnicutt and Frances Collins.
The surname Hunnicutt evolved into Huneycutt and Honeycutt









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[1] "North Carolina, Marriages Record, 1741-2011," database, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : viewed 27 July 2108), Marriage of Rowland Honeycut and Patsey Taylor, 1797, Marriage Date: 20 Dec 1797.