1a.  LDS.  Family Search: Internet Genealogy Service: Pedigree Resource File.  Disc #19.

Samuel Cloud Birth: 26 Jan 1766, Orange County, North Carolina Spouse: Mary Margaret "Peggy" Cupp Source: none given

1b.  Jordan R. Dodd, ed.  1993.  North Carolina Marriages:  Early to 1850.  Liahona Research, Orem, UT (Broderbund CD-229):  not found, and the CD does include at least some early Orange County records.

1c.  Byron Sistler & Barbara Sistler.  1987.  Early East Tennessee Marriages, Vol. 1, Grooms.  Byron Sistler & Assoc., Inc., Nashville, TN.

p. 69

Cloud, Saml. to Peggy Bowyers 5-15-1839 [Cl]

2.  Census Index:  U.S. Selected Counties, 1800 (Broderbund CD-312):

1800

Cloud, Samuel

NC

Orange Co.

p. 612

00100-0010000

These data indicate:

No. & Sex	Age Class	Therefore Born	Individuals Inferred
1 male	16-25	1774-1784	= Samuel (b. 1766)
1 female	16-25	1774-1784	= Sarah

Samuel is tallied in the wrong age-class.  As expected, the newlyweds have not yet had any children.

3.  1810 Census Index and Digital Images (online at Ancestry.com; Image #35 of 132; extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):

1810

NC

Orange Co.

p. 127/819

Saml Cloud

00110-10010-00

These data indicate:

No. & Sex	Age Class	Therefore Born	Individuals Inferred
1 male	16-25	1784-1794	= ?
1 male	26-44	1765-1784	= Samuel (b. 1766)
1 female	9 or under	1800-1810	= Daughter A
1 female	26-44	1765-1784	= Sarah

The older male must be hired help.

4.  1820 Census Index and Digital Images (online at Ancestry.com; Image #25 of 72; extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):

1820

NC

Orange Co.

pp. 332-333

Saml Claud/Cloud

000010-01010-x-200

0101-0000

These data indicate:ves

No., Race, Gender	Age Class	Therefore Born	Individuals Inferred
1 white male	26-44	1775-1794	= Samuel (b. 1766)
1 white female	10-15	1804-1810	= Daughter A
1 white female	26-44	1775-1794	= Sarah
2	people engaged in agriculture
1 male slave	14-25	1794-1806	= ?
1 male slave	45 or over	in or bef. 1775	= ?

Samuel is in the wrong age-class again.

5.  1830 Census Index and Digital Images (online at Ancestry.com; Image #66 of 101; extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):

1830

TN

Claiborne Co.

p. 134B

Samuel Cloud

001 200 001 - 000 000 100

no slaves

These data indicate:

No. & Sex	Age Class	Therefore Born	Individuals Inferred
1 male	10-14	1815-1820	= ?
2 males	15-19	1810-1815	= ? = ?
1 male	60-69	1760-1770	= Samuel (b. 1766)
1 female	40-49	1780-1790	= Sarah

The other males cannot be their sons.  Listed two lines from Margaret's brother, Aham CUPP. 

6.  1840 Census Index and Digital Images (online at Ancestry.com; Image #13-14 of 100; extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):

1840

TN

Claiborne Co.

pp. 206B-207A

Samuel Cloud Senr

000 000 000 100 - 000 000 010

0100000

no slaves

These data indicate:

No. & Sex	Age Class	Therefore Born	Individuals Inferred
1 male	70-79	1760-1770	= Samuel (b. 1766)
1 female	50-59	1780-1790	= Margaret (b. 1790/1)
1	person engaged in agriculture

7.  1850 Census Index/Microfilm (online at GenealogyLibrary.com):  7th Subdivision E Dist., Claiborne Co., TN, p. 301A, 871/871, enumerated 15 Oct 1850 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):

Samuel Cloud	84	M	Farmer		N Carolina
Margaret Cloud	59	F			Tenn

Tennessee did not achieve statehood until 1796, so Margaret must have been born in what was then NC and was, by 1850, TN.  Living next door to Margaret's sister, Catharine (CUPP) MYERS.