Orange County Indexed

Smart marriages

3 marriages in which the groom or the bride bears the name, oldest first.

Elisha Smart and Polly Armstrong

Marriage bond, 7 March 1792

Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 60009, “Marriage Bonds, 1752–1868, Roc–Ta”.
The 1936 State Archives abstract of the bonds, image 383 on FamilySearch, or the one before or after it: the bondsman and witness are there.
Find this marriage on FamilySearch (free account; its dates are often the bond’s).

Marriage bond, 10 July 1798

Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 60009, “Marriage Bonds, 1752–1868, Roc–Ta”.
The 1936 State Archives abstract of the bonds, image 383 on FamilySearch, or the one before or after it: the bondsman and witness are there.
Find this marriage on FamilySearch (free account; its dates are often the bond’s).

Marriage bond, 26 September 1817

Bond dated

26 September 1817

In the books

Orange Marriage Book N-R, page 759, at the Register of Deeds

Other readings

Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 60008, “Marriage Bonds, 1752–1868, Pa–Rob”.
The 1936 State Archives abstract of the bonds, image 342 on FamilySearch, or the one before or after it: the bondsman and witness are there.
Find this marriage on FamilySearch (free account; its dates are often the bond’s).

In all the records

Every Smart record, by decade: deeds, court minutes, wills, tax lists and more

Search beyond these records

Smart in Ancestry Library Edition (on the library’s public computers; add Orange County, North Carolina as a place)
HeritageQuest, through NC LIVE (anywhere, with your OCPL library card; search Smart there)
Smart in Orange County records on FamilySearch (free account)