{"id":15521,"date":"2022-07-18T21:40:57","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T02:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=15521"},"modified":"2022-07-18T21:40:57","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T02:40:57","slug":"marriage-bonds-are-potential-penalties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/18\/marriage-bonds-are-potential-penalties\/","title":{"rendered":"Marriage Bonds are Potential Penalties"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Many Southern US states required marriage bonds into the 19th century. These bonds were not paid in order for the couple to get married. They represented a potential fine or penalty if after the couple married it was determined that one of them had a legal impediment to marriage. That&#8217;s what the stated value of the bond represented. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The individuals who signed as bondsmen were generally &#8220;worth&#8221; at least that amount in real and personal property and knew that the couple had no legal reasons why they could not marry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or at least thought they were certain there was no reason the couple could not marry &lt;grin!>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many Southern US states required marriage bonds into the 19th century. These bonds were not paid in order for the couple to get married. They represented a potential fine or penalty if after the couple married it was determined that one of them had a legal impediment to marriage. That&#8217;s what the stated value of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}