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Married:
- "Know All Men by these presents (preasant?) that WE JOSEPH SMITH & JOHN BLACK are held and firmly bringing (?) unto
HENRY LEE, ESQ. GOVERNOR OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA the SUM OF FIFTY (50) POUNDS current (currency) money to which
payment will and truly (trully) be made to our SAID GOVERNOR and his successors for the use of the COMMONWEALTH we bind ourselves over and our Heirs Executors and Administators ( J)ointly and Severly Firmly by these presents (presence) SEALED with our Seals and Dated this 19th Day of December 1793. The condition of the above obligations such that where there is a Marriage shortly intended to be solemnized between the above BOUND JOSEPH SMITH and ELIZABETH BLACK, a daughter of JAMES BLACK ( ???) and of there (their) LOVE
there be NO LAWFUL cause to be obstructed . The same then this obligation to be Void ELSE to remain of Force and Virtue SEALED and DELIVERED
IN THE PRESENTS (Presence) OF: JOSEPH SMITH (&) JOHN BLACK. (signed minister) WATKINS."
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