By: Ruth S. Williams, Pub. 1958, Reprinted 2018, 336 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #0-89308-946-X. Edgecombe County was created in 1732 from Bertie County.This book is broken up into two parts. The first part are marriages from the Marriage Bond Book 1732-1867. While the second part includes: marriages proved by Edgecombe County Wills, marriages from the Raleigh Register and North Carolina Gazette 1799-1868, marriages fromm the Tarboro Free Press 1826-1845, marriages from the Battle Book, marriages from the files of Hugh B. Johnston Jr., marraiges proved by records in Halifax County and miscellaneous other sources.

This work contains abstracts of all marriage bonds issued in Wilkes County shortly after it was erected from Surry County, to 1868. The 5,000 marriage records abstracted here refer in total to some 15,000 persons, including bondsmen. As is the convention, the data are arranged throughout in alphabetical order by the surname of the groom, and each entry contains the name of the bride, the date of the bond, and the name of the bondsman.