Marriage Settlement (Anderson/Dunham)

Transferred from Joseph A. Anderson and Charles Berrien Jones to Thomas R. Dunham, husband of the late Sarah A. Anderson (Dunham), for $1 on June 20, 1852: “all that undivided portion of the plantation known as the estate of Wm. [William] Anderson lying in said county of Liberty and State aforesaid, for boundaries of which reference is made to the plat thereof, and of all and singular those sundry other tracts of pine land lying in Liberty County and state aforesaid, referred to in the void deed of marriage settlements, and also all and singular the following negro slaves, to wit: Joe, Ned, Agrippa, Pompey, Jim, Sam (carpenter), Taymor, Patience, May (Mary?), Ben, Prince, and Matilda, twelve in number and the issue and increase of the said slaves since the said nineteenth day of December in the year 1850.” [Summary of the rest of the document:] Joseph A. Anderson had previously been appointed as trustees for Sarah A. Anderson (Dunham) as part of the deed of marriage settlement between her and Thomas R. Dunham. In the April 1852 term of the Liberty County Superior Court, equity side, she and Thomas R. Dunham had sued Joseph A. Anderson and Charles Berrien Jones to modify the terms of the trust so that they could use the property during their natural lives, and after Thomas R. Dunham’s death, if he should die first, then the property would go to Sarah during her natural life, and then to any child or children of theirs. If she were to die first, then the property would be left in trust for him, and then to their child or children upon his death, but if there were no children. It would be his absolutely. However, before this could be implemented, Sarah died on April 22, 1852, with no children. In view of the decree, and because there were no other heirs, the property was passed to Thomas R. Dunham by the two trustees. Witnessed by Joseph W. Robarts, T.W. Quarterman, J.P. Recorded on April 17, 1860, by Jesse Brewer, C.S.C.L.C.