Marriage Contract (Irvine/Baillie)

On March 1, 1770, Elizabeth Powell and James MacKay, trustees, acknowledged receipt of property inherited by Ann Elizabeth Irvine, formerly Ann Elizabeth Baillie, from her father Kenneth Baillie’s will: “one bed and furniture, one girl called Doll, one wench named Moll, one wench named Dafney [alt: Daphne], one wench named Morah, one wench named Flora, one fellow called ? Cuff?, one fellow named Jamey, and fifty pounds in cash. 

Appended was a September 5, 1765, record of the marriage contract between John Irvine, “practitioner of physic and surgery” in St. John’s Parish, Province of Georgia [now Liberty County], and Ann Elizabeth Baillie, seamstress, daughter of Kenneth Baillie. Her trustees were Kenneth Baillie and James McKay, planters, and Elizabeth Baillie, wife of Kenneth Baillie, and Kenneth Baillie, son of Kenneth Baillie, all of Georgia. Put into trust for her was any property she possessed or was to possess in the future. Witnessed by Thomas Bosomworth, Jean Darling, Andrew Darling.