State of North Carolina Hyde County
To any regularly ordained minister of the Gospel having the cure of souls, or any Justice of the peace, in and for the county of Hyde, duly commissioned and sworn; You, or either of you are hereby authorized to celebrate and solemnize the rite of matrimony between Zion Mitcheal Rose son of Zion Rose and Polly Rose and Miss Caroline Sewell daughter of Elisha Sewell and Sallie Sewell, and them pronounced man and wife togather.
Receive state and county tax
Witness Brion G. Credle register of Deeds for the county of Hyde This the 25th day of January A. D. 1872
Brion G. Credle Reg. of Deeds per James M. Watson Dep.
State of North Carolina Hyde County
This certifies that Mitcheal Rose son of Zion Rose and Polly Rose, and Caroline Sewell were married by me on the 25th day of January A. D. 1872, at the house of David Payne in Hyde county N. C.
James M. Watson Reg. Ord Minister
SOURCE: Book 74, Certificate # 67, Register of Deeds, Hyde County Courthouse, Swan Quarter, NC.
State of North Carolina, Hyde County
May 22nd A. D. 1875
Wm. Mitcheal Rose having applied to me for a LICENSE for the Marriage of Wm. Mitcheal Rose of Hyde County, aged 27 years, color white, the son of Zion Rose and Polly Rose the father now dead, the mother living, resident of Hyde county And Dorcas Hall of Hyde, aged 21 years, color white, daughter of Benj. Hall and Polly Hall the father living, the mother dead, resident of Hyde county.
James M. Watson for James M. Credle Register of Deeds.
State of North Carolina, Hyde County
I, R. F. Watson a Justice of the Peace united in matrimony Wm. M. Rose and Dorcas Hall the parties licensed above, on the 23rd day of May 1875, at Haywood Mason's in Lake Landing Township in said County, according to law.
R. F. Watson J. P.
Witnesses Present at Marriage:
J. G. Watson
R. Gibbs
Haywood Mason
SOURCE: Book 74, Certificate # 78, Register of Deeds, Hyde County Courthouse, Swan Quarter, NC.