David Wallace and Nancy Mills are our fifth great-grandparents
(from Mary Lou Brown to Garland T. Brown to Mary Ella Wallis (1861-1944) - William H Wallis (1831-1903) - David Wallace (1800-1878) to David Wallace and Nancy Mills.
This photocopy of a Wallace family bible page was given to Mary Lou by someone - a cousin maybe?
Here is their marriage bond that someone posted on Ancestry. It is dated March 22, 1798, in Mecklenburg County, Virginia.
A marriage bond was an official "intention to marry." A man who had proposed to a woman went to the courthouse with a bondsman (often a relative) and posted a bond indicating his intention to marry the woman. Marriages usually happened within days of the bond being posted.
It is signed by David Wallace and a Larkin Crowder, which means I will be on the lookout for "Crowder" as a relative of either David Wallace or Nancy Mills.
Mecklenburg County VA:
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