Robertson-AL-1852-Deed

Tuscaloosa County, Alabama Deed Book 2, p. 215

Know all men by these presents that I John Robertson of the County of Tuscaloosa for and in consideration of the natural love and affection that I have and bear toward my daughter Martha M. Garvin wife of John S. Garvin for the better support and maintenance of herself and the support and education of the children that she now has or may hereafter have do hereby give to the said Martha M. ...
... a certain negro boy named Robert aged about 21 years ...
... a negro girl named Susannah aged about 17 years and ...
... a negro girl named Aura aged about 13 years ...
to have and to hold the said negroes and any increase they may have to her sole and separate use to be in no wise subject to the debts, contracts or liabilities of her present husband the said John S. Garvin or any other husband if any she may have for and during her natural life to be possessed and enjoyed by her for the uses and purposes aforesaid and ...
... at her death, I give the said negroes and their increase to her children living at her death to be equally divided between them.
It is further understood, that these negroes are not to be taken into account as the settlement of my estate, In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand hereunto set my hand and seal the sixteenth day of June AD 1852.
John Robertson SEAL


The State of Alabama Tuscaloosa county
I Moses McGuire Judge of Probate for said county certify that John Robertson whose name is signed to the foregoing conveyance and who is known to me acknowledged before me on this day that being informed of the contents of the conveyance he executed the same voluntarily on the day this same bears date.
Given under my hand the 16 day of June A D 1754.
Moses McGuire Judge of Probate

Filed for Registration the 30th June 1852 and recorded in Deed Book No 2 pages 215 and 216.
Moses McGuire Judge of Probate.

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