Record of the marriage certificate of Deborah Marshill Hinshaw and Stephen Hobson
Cane Creek MM book of marriage records:
"Western Quarter Cane Creek Monthly Meeting Volume I", page 126; microfilm #0371251 in the LDS FHL.

Whereas Stephen Hobson son of George & Hannah Hobson and Deborah Hinshaw Daughter of William & Rebekah Marshall all of Chatham County having declared their intentions of Marriage with Each other before several monthly meetings of the people Called Quakers at Cane Creek meeting house in orange County North Carolina according to the good order used among them & having consent of parents & relations Concerned their sd proposals of Marriage was allowed by sd meeting & Now these are to Certify whom it may concern that for the full accomplishing their said intentions this Eighteenth Day of the fifth month 1786 they the sd Stephen Hobson and Deborah Hinshaw appeared in a publick meeting of the sd people and others at their meeting house at Cane Creek abovesaid & the said Stephen Hobson taking the sd Deborah Hinshaw by the hand Did in solemn manner openly declare that he took her the sd Deborah Hinshaw to be his wife promising through Divine assistance to be unto her a true and faithful husband until Death should seperate them or words to that Effect   and then & there in the same assembly the said Deborah Hinshaw did in like manner declare that she took him the sd Stephen Hobson to be her Husband promising through Divine assistance to be unto him a true and faithful wife untill Death should seperate them or words purpose And Moreover they the sd Stephen Hobson & Deborah Hinshaw she according to the custom of marriage assuming the name of her husband as a further Confirmation thereof did then and there to these presents set their hands - - - and we being present at the solemnization of the sd marriage do as witnesses here unto also subscribe our names the day and year above written Stephen Hobson Deborah Hobson Daniel Mathews Benjamin Piggott John Davies Mary Davies Charles Stout Peter Stout John Allen William [...] Susannah [...] William Marshill Ann Davies William Davies Dinah Marshill Hannah Hinshaw Emey Marshill John Marshill Jacob Marshill Margret Marshill Margaret Cook Mary Parrish William Marshill Rebekah Marshill William Hobson John Marshill Abigail Hinshaw Sarah Hobson Stephen Hobson junior Rachel Hobson George Hobson Ann Hobson David Hobson

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