Hi, Here is the somewhat annotated transcription of the marriage of my ggg grandparents Abram Marshill and Martha Doane at Cane Creek MM, then Orange Co. (now Alamance) NC 1795. I descend via their youngest child, Thomas Marshall who married Elizabeth Fortner, then their daughter Ruth Elizabeth Marshall who married Joseph Alexander Sexton. Elizabeth migrated to Lawrence Co Missouri near the Dade Co. border, with or after several of her Fortner brothers and their families. -- Where they lived awfully close to the Penns who were on the county line in Dade.. Also a group of Hinshaws and others with NC Quaker backgrounds. I didn't transcribe this, but somewhere I have the original. Best Regards, Janet Hunter MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE ABRHAM MARSHILL & MARTHA DOAN Note: Whereas Abram Marshill, son of John and Ruth Marshill and Martha Doan, daughter of John and Elizabeth Doan each of Chatham County in the State of North Carolina having declared their intent of marriage with each other before several Monthly Meetings of the people called Quakers at Cane Creek Meetinghouse in the county of Orange and the State aforesaid. And according to the good o....................[something missing here, Janet Hunter note] Next then having the consent of parents and parties concerned their said proposals of marriage were allowed by the said meeting.Now these are to certify whome it may concern that for the full accomplishing their intentions of marriage this tenth day of the ninth month in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred ninety and five. They, the said Abram Marshill and Martha Doan appeared in a public meeting at Cane Creek Meeting House above said and the said Abram Marshill taking the said Martha Doan by the hand did in a solemn manner openly did say that he took the said Martha to be his wife promising with Divine Assistance to be unto her a true and faithful husband until death should separate them or words to the same effect. And then in the same assembly the said Martha Doan in like manner openly declare that she took him the said Abram to be her husband promising with divine assistance to be unto him a true and faithful wife until death should separate them or words to the same purpose. And moreover the said Abram Marshill and Martha Doan according to the custom of marriage assuming the name of her husband as a further confirmation thereof did then and there to those present seal their hands. And we whose names are underneath subscribed being present at the solemnized of said marriage do as witness also subscribe be our names the day and year above written. Abraham Marshill, Martha Marshill, John Doan, Elizabeth Doan, William Marshill, Ruth Marshill, Jacob Marshill, Margret Marshill, Benjamin Marshill, Peter Stout, jr. , Hannah Stout, John Allen, Rachel Allen, Rachael Allen, Ebenezer Doan, John Davis, Mary Davis, John Stout, Anna Stout, Jesee Hinshaw. **************New year...new news. Be the first to know what is making headlines. (http://news.aol.com?ncid=emlcntusnews00000002)