This work contains a list of about 3,500 marriage bonds showing the names of approximately 10,000 brides, grooms, parents, and sureties and the exact date of each bond.

From ther Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, the William and Mary College Quarterly, and Tyler's Quarterly.

In 1929, Stratton Nottingham published abstracts of the Northampton County marriage bonds which quickly became the standard source for Northampton County marriages. Nottingham's work, covering the years 1706 to 1854, was based on marriage bonds but omitt