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Thomas Hollowell, b. 4 Dec 1739, Perquimans County, North Carolina , d. 1822, Valeene, Orange, Indiana (Age 82 years)
Mother
Mary Peele, b. 2 Feb 1742, North Carolina , d. 11 Jan 1813, Valeene, Orange, Indiana (Age 70 years)
Married
7 Dec 1762
Rich Square, Northhampton, North Carolina
From the Rich Square Monthly Meeting records:
At our Monthly Meeting held at Rich Square Meeting House in Northampton County 1st day of 11th month 1760, Thomas Hollowell of Perquimans County, son of John and Sarah
Hollowell, deceased of Norfolk County, and Mary Peelle, daughter of Robert Peelle of Northampton both appeared at this meeting and declared their intentions of taking each other in marriage, appoints Moses Hall and John Peelle to inquire into Thomas Hollowell's clearness in relation to marriage and make report to next Monthly Meeting.
Marriage Certificate:
Whereas Thomas Hollowell of the County of Perquimans, son of John and Sarah Hollowell of the Colony of Virginia and County of Norfolk, and Mary Peelle daughter of Robert Peelle of Northampton County and Elizabeth Peelle deceased, having
publickly declared their intentions of taking each other in marriage, before several Monthly Meetings of the People called Quakers in the County of Northampton according to them whose proceedings therein after a Deliberate Consideration thereof with Regard unto the Righteous Law of God and Example of his People Recorded in the Scriptures of truth in that case, were approved by the said meetings they appearing clear, of all others, and having also Consent of Parents and Relations concerned.
Now these are to certify all whom it may concern that for the accomplishment of their said intention, this Seventh day of the Twelfth month called December in the year one
thousand seven hundred and sixty, they, the said Thomas Hollowell and Mary Peelle appearing in a Publick assembly of the aforesaid People and others, met together in the county of Northampton in their public meeting place at Rich Square, and in solemn manner he, the said Thomas Hollowell, taking the said Mary Peelle by the hand, did openly declare as followeth: Friends, you are my witnesses that I do take this my friend Mary Peelle to be my wife, promising through Divine assistance to be to her a true and loving husband til death separate us or words to this effect and then and there in the said assembly, she, the said Mary Peelle, did in like manner declare as followeth: Friends, you are my witnesses that I do take this my friend Thomas Hollowell to be my husband promising through Divine assistance to be a true and loving wife til death separates us or words to that effect. And the said Thomas Hollowell and Mary Hollowell, his now wife, as a farther confirmation thereof, did then and there to these presence set their hands, and we whose names are hereunto subscribed, being present among others at the Solemnization of the above said marriage and subscription in manner aforesaid as witnesses thereunto, have also to these presents subscribed our names the day and year above written. Thomas Hollowell Thomas Hollowell Mary Hollowell
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