Marriage Contract (Parker/Gough)

On March 22, 1796, in South Carolina, Ferguson Parker put up a bond of $7000 pounds sterling to John Gough in trust for his sister Jane Caroline Gough, whom he was shortly planning to marry. Jane Gough was identified as a minor under 21, and the daughter of John Gough “of St. Pauls Parish Planter deceased.” Jane Gough was entitled to an undivided 1/3 of a plantation in St. Pauls Parish, “in the state aforesaid” [South Carolina], and also to “divers Negro Slaves and sums of money” by virtue of her father’s will. She was also entitled to “one Negro Slave named Kate” through her grandmother Jane Hext’s will. Her brother, John Gough, was to be her trustee to manage her property for the benefit of her and Ferguson Parker during their lives, and after the death of the surviving spouse, for their children. Witnessed by Lambert Lance, Peter M. Parker, Sarah Lance. The marriage settlement was recorded in the Secretary’s Office in Charleston, in Marriage Settlement Book No. 2, Page 472-474, on March 16, 1796. Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on July 4, 1796.