Marriage:Thomas B Franklin / Elizabeth Ford Marriage Contract
Submitted: by Dorothy Wheat 
Source: Ouachita Parish Lousiana Conveyance Records
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Thomas B Franklin Marriage Contract submitted by Dorothy Wheat - information taken from
Ouachita Parish Lousiana Conveyance Records

Thomas B Franklin with marriage cont Elizabeth Ford

This sixth day of September, 1817, personally appeared before me Oliver J Morgan Judge
of the Parish of Ouachita, Thomas B Franklin and Elizabeth Ford daughter of Lydia Ford
wife of John Bannister both of the Parish aforesaid who are mutually agreed on the
following contract of marriage.

The said Franklin and the said Elizabeth agree to take each the other as man and wife 
and to celebrate the same immediately.  The parties reciprocally acknowledge that the
husband is professed of a plantation and ten negroes estimated at seven thousand 
dollars out of which property he endows his future wife with the sum of one thousand 
dollars and one hundred acres of land situated in the parish of Ouachita, to hold and
enjoy during her natural life, then to revert to the rightful heirs of him the said 
Franklin. All other matters and things relative to their property the parties leave
to the disposition of the laws in force.

M Hughes                                                             Thos. B Franklin

James Huey Jr                                                                 her
                                                                   Elizabeth   X  Ford
                                                                              Mark

The foregoing marriage contract was duly signed and acknowledged by the parties in
presence of me the said Parish Judge (the said Elizabeth Ford not knowing how to
write made her ordinary mark) and the subscribing witnesses on the day and date 
therein mentioned.

In credence whereof I have hereunto signed my name and affixed my seal of office the
date afforesaid.

                                                                   Oliver J Morgan
                                                                   Parish Judge

Transcriber's note:       The following information is from Ouachita Parish
Conveyance Book D, page 374: " Thomas B Franklin (second marriage) in Ouachita Parish
on 7 September 1817 to Elizabeth Ford, daughter of Lydia Ford, wife of John Bannister 
- by Oliver J Morgan P-J with John Hughes and James Huey witnesses. "

The record shows that this was a second ceremony as they had been married originally
by Henry Bry in 1807.