This work has abstracts of all marriage bonds issued in Rutherford County from 1779 to 1868, when marriage bonds--as prerequisite for marriage--were discontinued. These records were abstracted, in the main, from a microfilm copy of the original marriage bonds on file at the State Archives in Raleigh--a few directly from bonds and licenses in the county courthouse in Rutherfordton--and they refer to some 12,500 persons, including bondsmen. The arrangement...