Pike County GaArchives Deed.....Lee, Mary - Driver, Giles June 2, 1869 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: William Russell dragonraj@comcast.net April 1, 2006, 11:03 am Written: June 2, 1869 Recorded: July 19, 1869 Georgia Pike County This indenture made this the 2nd day of June in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and sixty nine between Giles Driver of the County & State aforesaid of the one part & Mary Lee of the same place of the other part. Witnesth that whereas the said Giles Driver & Mary Lee have consented and agreed to be united in the holy bonds of wedlock & for the purpose of adjusting & forever setting their marital rights in contemplation of said marriage, do agree by these present, that the said Mary Lee shall own & possess in her own right free from the debts or liabilities of the said Giles Driver all the property she owns at the time of her said intermarriage to dispose of on her death by Will or otherwise [?] to said Giles Driver the joint use of the same & possession thereof during his natural life - the said Giles Driver on his part agrees that his executors or administrators at his death shall invest three hundred dollars of his estate in lands or real estate for the exclusive benefit & use of the said Mary Lee during her life or widowhood & on the death or marriage of the said Mary the said land so purchased the paid three hundred dollars to return to the estate to be distributed among the heirs or distributees of the estate of said Giles Driver but if the said Giles Driver should survive the said Mary then the then this provision is to be void & and of non effect. And the said Mary by these present expressly accepts paid [?] of three hundred dollars in lieu of [?] in the estate of the said Giles Driver & also waives all right to any portion of the property of said Giles Driver otherwise. In witness whereof the parties aforesaid have hereto set their hands & seals the day & year above written. Giles Driver Mary Lee (her mark) In presence of L. J. Green W. R. Hollon J. P. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/pike/deeds/driver400gdd.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.4 Kb