Enslaved People Named: None
Location: Bryan County, Georgia
On June 1, 1801, Martha Mann, a “spinster” of Bryan County, made a marriage settlement with William A. Dunham, a merchant of McIntosh County, with John Pray and Thomas R.C. Hamilton, both of Georgia, as her trustees. The settlement put certain “real and personal estate” to which she was entitled under the will of Captain Luke Mann, deceased, her father, into a trust for her, noting that the details of the property were not known at the time. Included in the trust were “those tracts or parcels of land, lots, houses, and other real estate of what nature soever, situate and lying in the said state of Georgia, or elsewhere…and also all and every negro or other Slave, as well male as female, and all other goods chattels monies and debts of her the said Martha Mann wherever the same may be recovered or obtained…” Witnessed by James Montford, J.P. M.E. [or W.E.] Stuart. Recorded in Bryan County Superior Court on June 21, 1801.
Bryan County, Georgia, Deeds & Mortgages, v. A-D 1796-1829, Book B (1799-1807), page 57-60; digitized microfilm accessed through catalog, FamilySearch.org (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS4K-K3W3 : 18 May 2024), image 140-2 of 600; microfilm #007899046, citing original records of Bryan County Superior Court.