Regina Barry provided the text of a marriage bond between Amos Dye and Mary Chamberlin:
[ All of these marriage bonds may be seen on FHC film 0802937. NJ Marriage Bonds. Vol. C & D are on the film. It is individual marriage bonds (not clerks copies), signed and/or marked by the parties so named. The numbers correspond to a stamped number in the upper right corner of each bond. The bonds are either completely hand-writen (or in the case of Amos Dye) pre-printed, with names and amounts filled in by hand. (Note: date of bond generally does not indicate date of marriage)]
332 Know all men by these presents that We Amos Dey and Ezekial Dey both of Upper Freehold, County of Monmouth and State of New Jersey are held & firmly bound unto His Excellency William Livingston Esquire Governor and Commander in Chief of New Jersey &c. in the sum of Five Hundred Pounds, Current Lawful money of New Jersey to be paid to the said William Livingston, Esquire Governor &c. his sucessors or assigns for the which payment well & truly to be made, we bind ourselves, our Heirs, Executors and Administrators and every of them jointly, & severally, firmly by these Presents: sealed with our Seals, Dated the second Day of February Anno Domini One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy eight.
The condition of this obligation is such, That whereas there is a
mutual Contract of Marriage between Amos Dey - - - of the one party and
Mary Chamberlain - - - of the other Party, and the Parties have
complied with the Terms prescribed in an Act of the General Assembly of
New Jersey, made in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and
Nineteen, entitled, An Act to Prevent Clandestine Marriages. Now if it
shall hereafter appear that the Certificates produced, or either of
them, have been fraudulent; or that either the aforesaid Amos Dey - - -
or the aforesaid Mary Chamberlain - - - had not the consent of their
Parents, Guardians or Persons under whose Care they were, signing the
said Certificates, or that the said Amos Dey - - - or the said Mary
Chamberlain - - - or either of them had some lawfull Let or Impediment
of Pre-contract, Affinity or Consanguinity, to hinder their being
joined in the Holy Bands of Matrimony & afterwards of living together
as Man and Wife then this obligation to stand & remain in full force
and virtue, otherwise to be void
Sealed and Delivered in the Presence of
Ely Moore
An image of this Marriage Bond is also available.
[He may have migrated with his older brother John Dye, Sr.
around 1776 to Virginia. This is being researched.] Amos and Mary had 7 children:
Matson's brother Joseph Riley married a Rachel Dye in 1790 in Prince William County, Virginia. She was probably the daughter of Amos' Dye uncle Vincent Dye. One of their sons was named Artipe - the maden name of Vincent's wife Sarah and four of the Riely children had the same names as daughters of Vincent. Joseph purchased several items at the estate sale of Vincent's property.
Henry Dye purchased land from the
Government through the Chillicothe Land Office
on Nov 5 1835 of 39.04 acres in Washington Towsnhip of Jackson Co. Ohio and on
Aug 5 1837 purchased 49.44 acres in Milton Township of Jackson Co.
(
Vinton County was formed in1850.) Thus, Henry Dye ,
son of John Dye, son of Amos Dye, appears to be the Dye that moved to Vinton County
who was referred to in the history of Ezekiel Dye. Ezekiel would have been Henry's
great uncle.
The children of Henry and Sarah that are known currently are:
[Laura Myers - FamTree and Judy Riley provided much of the information about Amos Dye and his children.]
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