Records drawn from court records in the North Carolina State Archives in Raleigh. Includes bride, groom, date of bond and/or marriage. Alphabetic by groom.A full bride's index of brides is provided.
Guilford County, created in 1771 from portions of Rowan and Orange counties, was named in honor of Francis North, 1st Earl of Guilford, father of Frederick North, Lord North, British Prime Minister at the time. But the first settlements in the area predated the county's creation by nearly three decades. In the 1740s ministers of the German Reformed congregations led their flocks down from Pennsylvania much as the German Reformed pastors had done two decades earlier in the lower Shenandoah Virginia counties of Augusta and Orange. They were joined in this frontier North Carolina by English Quakers and numerous Presbyterians groups who forged the new community along the river edges of the county. In 1779 the southern third of Guilford was set aside to form Randolph County, and in 1785 the northern half of Guilford's remaining territory became Rockingham County. In all, 8,282 marriage abstracts are available in this work.
John Vogt
2012, paper, 269 pp.
107-GLNC
