The marriage bond was a guarantee or promise that the couple had a legal right to be married. That is to say, the couple was of age, that neither was already married and that there was no other reason why they could not be married according to law....
Eliza Tannehill in late middle age, wearing a bonnet tied in a bow at the neck and a dark dress with a large collar. She is seated on a red chair. Eliza Dewees Tannehill was born in 1789 in Kentucky and died in 1843 in Nashville. She married...
Exterior view of General Robert Macomb’s Home on Spuyten Duyvil Creek, New York. The property was “purchased by Alexander Macomb about 1789. Inherited by his grandson, Robert Macomb in 1810. [On] June 10, 1847 Wm. Foster, Jr.& Caroline Matilda...