I am going to copy below the marriage certificate for Margaret Bowles and Martin Baldwin. Can someone tell me anything about the parents of Martin Baldwin. Did Masten Baldwin go by another name? What is the maiden name of Masten's wife, Annie? Thanks Brenda Marriage certificate filed in Montgomery Co. NC: State of North Carolina Montgomery County To any regular minister of the Gospel or Justice of the Peace of said County: You or any of your are hereby authorized and licensed to celebrate and solemnize the Rites of Matrimony Between Martin Baldwin, son of Masten Baldwin and Annie Baldwin, And Margaret Bowls, daughter of Mastin Bowls and ------------- (Left blank) of said County and join them together as Man and Wife. Witness P. H. Morris, Register of Deeds for said County at office in Troy, this 31st day of March in the 93rd year of American Independence, A. D. 1869: Signed P. H. Morris, Register Any Minister of the gospel or Maistrate failing to return license and certificate of marriage to Register of Deeds within three months after solumnizing marriage subjects himself to a fine of twenty-five dollars. State of North Carolina Montgomery County I___________hereby certify that I solemnize the Rites of Matrimony between Martin Baldwin and Margret Boles on the 1st day of April, A. D. 1869. James Haywood, J. P.