Enslaved Persons Named: None named
On January 19, 1786, Samuel Burnley, planter of Liberty County, entered into a contract with Thomas Baker and John Winn to pay 1000 guineas out of his estate at his decease in trust for the benefit of Elizabeth Stevens, widow of Liberty County, because he was planning to marry her. The conditions of the obligation where that if he outlived her and died without having children by her, then half of the estate he was to receive by his marriage with her, whether it “be in Lands, Slaves, or other Goods and Chattles [SIC], and the half of the issue of such Slaves,” were to go to her heirs. If Burnley died before her, without leaving children by her, then his half of what he received by their marriage was to “be given again to the said Elizabeth, and be at her sole disposal.” Witnessed by William Baker B. Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on January 5, 1790.
Source: Family Search.org. Liberty County Superior Court “Deeds and mortgages, 1777-1920; general index to deeds and mortgages, 1777-1958,” Film: Deeds & Mortgages, v. A-B 1777-1793,” Record Book B, 1787-1793, p. 227. Image #385 https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSLZ-FGNQ?cat=292358()