State of North Carolina
Ashe County

To any regular Minister of the Gospel, having the Cure of Souls of whatever denomination, or to any Justice of the Peace for said County:

You or any of you, are hereby licensed and authorized to celebrate and solemnize the rite of MATRIMONY between Samuel M. Cornut and Catherine Jane McCarter and join them together as MAN and WIFE.

Witness Robt. Gambill Clerk of Ashe County Court at Office, this 18th Day of April A. D. 1856.

Robert Gambill