Enslaved Persons Named: None
On April 30, 1828, John S. Law, of Savannah in Chatham County, a “practitioner of medicine,” and Jane E. Elliott, also of Savannah, Chatham County, entered into a marriage contract with James S. Bulloch, Savannah, and John Dunwody, of Liberty County, as her trustees. The contract noted that John Elliott, late of Liberty County, had died intestate with considerable property and that Jane E. Elliott was entitled to an undivided seventh of the entire estate as one of his children and heirs. The contract put into trust for her all the property she was to receive from her father’s estate. Witnessed by H.A. Dunwody, Richard S. Baker. Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on May 26, 1828.
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. H-I 1816-1831,” Record Book I, 1822-1831, p. 299. Image # 457 (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS42-SSYK-6?cat=292358)