The only record found of Elizabeth Everhart is her marriage on 9 August 1787, which was probably within a few months of the family's arrival in Rockingham County.

If Elizabeth were eighteen years of age at the time of her marriage, she would have been born ca. 1769 in Germany.

The marriage bond was written by the court clerk in English, and he no doubt translated the names of the German families phonetically. The groom's name was written three times on the bond, and appears to be Broonee or Broonce. In German names Bs and Ps were often mistaken by persons of English extraction. Unfortunately, the groom's signature is an X, so his spelling cannot be compared to the other spellings on the bond.

The marriage bond states the bride's name as "Elizabeth Everhart daughter of Palser Everhart."

On the bond with Chris Broonce was Phillip Armentrot. A search of the 1788 militia records of Captain Richard Ragan's Company, No. 13, which is the company that Palser Everhart, his son Charles, and Philip Armentrot served in revealed only one male named Christian with a last name that began with "B" or "P", Christian Brewins. The 1796, Personal Property Tax List has a Christian Prunce.

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