Marriage Contract (Campbell/Gould)

On January 10, 1827, Sarah Campbell, daughter of the deceased Jesse Campbell, who had died intestate, entered into a marriage contract with Richard W. Gould, with Jesse H. Campbell and John B. Bacon, all of them of Liberty County, as her trustees. Sarah Campbell having inherited “land and negroes, as well as other personal property” from Jesse Campbell, this property was put into a trust for her, and described as “all the undivided part of parcel of a certain lot or tract of land, situate, lying and being on the Colonel’s Island in the COunty aforesaid, bounded North by land of Andrew Maybank, South by WIlliam McWhir’s land, east by Audley Maxwell and William McWhir’s land and west by salt marsh, containing two hundred and fifty acres, more or less…also the undivided [part] of all the negro slaves to wit, Isaac, Kate, Abram, Philip, Moses, Jonas, Jim, Robin, Young Isaac, Phillis, Charlotte, Priscilla, and her children Caleb, Ipswich and Mary, with all their future issue and increase.” Witnessed by Ann S. Harris. Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on March 28, 1827.