In a message dated 5/25/2005 8:01:14 AM Eastern Standard Time, NCRUTHER-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: By the way if anyone runs across a Bastardy Bond that Nancy McEntire Thompson( ? THOMPSON, was on marriage bond as such) filed against Jacob Wolf for a child born to her before they married in Dec 1825. She waas daughter of Andrew Aaron McEntire and Ellender. He died in 1827 and she is named in his will of which I have a copy of from Rutherford County. Thanks, Melanie Malone Melanie, I was looking at bastardy bonds a while back. That name is very familiar. I was at my archives, in Cleveland county looking at them . I will try to look again. Seems it just listed her name, no other name. I think she must have been paying her own bond. Is that possible?