Marriage Contract (Baker/Darling)

On September 25, 1787, Artemas Baker and Euphemia Darling, daughter of the late Andrew Darling, Esquire, of Sunbury, entered into a marriage contract. John Graves, Charles Irvine, and John Mitchell Jr were to be her trustees. Put into trust for her were One Negroe or slave named Jane [or Juno] with her issue, twenty head of neat cattle and all other livestock, as well as assorted furniture items. Witnessed by Elizabeth Powell, Ann Eliza Irvine, Ann Bulloch. 

On March 17, 1788, John Graves and Charles Irvine, trustees, acknowledged receipt of property for Euphemia Baker, formerly Euphemia Darling, from her mother Jane Low’s will: “one Negroe fellow named Johnny one wench named Harriett, one Negroe Girl named Hannah and a wench named big Juno falling to her by a marriage settement between her said mother and Andrew Darling.