Thomas Elmore III

  General Notes:

" Whereas Thomas Elmore, son of Thomas Elmore of the county of New Kent, and Cicelee Ellyson, daughter of G. Robt. Ellyson of the same county having declared their intention of taking each other in marriage before several pulick meetings of the people of God, called Quakers in Virginia according to the good order used among them whose proceding therein after deliberate consideration thereof (with Regards to the Righteous Law of God and Exampell of his peopell Recorded in the Scriptures of Truth in that case) were approved by the sd meetings They appearing cleare of all others and Having Concent of parents and friends conerned--
"Now these are to certify all whome it may concern that for the full accomplishing their sd intentions this ninth day of ye 5/mo call'd July 1729 They the Sayd Thomas Elmore and Cecilia Elyson apearing in a publick meeting of the afore sd peopill and others met together In their publick meeting place at Black Creek In the afore said county and in Solemn maner He the Sd Thomas Elmore taking the Sd Cecelia Elison by the hand did opinly declare as followeth You are this day my witnesses that I doe take this my friend Cecelia Elyson to be my wife promising with the Lord's assistance to be to her a faithful and Loving Husand till Deth.
"And then and their in the Sd Assembly the Sd Cecelia Ellyson did in like manner declare as followeth You are my witnesses that I doe this day take this my friend Thomas Ellmore to be my Husband promising to him a faithful and Loving wife Till Deth -- and the (said) Thomas Ellmore and Cicilia Elyson as a farther conformation there of did then and their to these presence set their hands and we whose names are hereto subscribed being present among others at the Solemnizing of there sd mariage and subscription in manner aforesd, as
"Witness hereunto have also to these presents subscribed our names the day and year above written. Thomas Elmore
Cicilia Elmore
Thos. Pleasants Austin Elmore Gen t Robt Elyson
John Johnson John Elmore Thos. Elmore Sr.
James Leas Robert Elyson Mary Elmore
Peter Elmore Wm Elyson Rebeckah Elmore
Mary Elmore Jnr Vrscile Elyson

Thomas married Cecilia Ellyson, daughter of Gerrard Robert Ellyson II and Sarah Spence, on 9 Jul 1729 in Black Creek, New Kent, Virginia. (Cecilia Ellyson was born about 1704 in New Kent, New Kent, Virginia and died about 1772 in Rowan, North Carolina, USA.)