MONTGOMERY COUNTY, NC - COURT - Wm. Haywood & Henrietta Green
                                     Marriage Contract
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Wm. Haywood & Henrietta Green Marriage Contract

Wm. Haywood & wife to C. J. Bruton
State of North Carolina
Montgomery County
This Indenture tripartite made, executed and concluded this the 
10th day of December A. D. 1861 by & between Wm. Haywood 
of the County of Montgomery and State of North Carolina of the 
first part, and Henrietta Green of this county & state aforesaid of 
the second part, & Calvin J. Bruton of the County and State 
aforesaid of the third part, witnesseth that whereas a marriage is 
agreed upon and the blessing of God intended to be solemnized 
between sd William Haywood & sd Henrietta Green and whereas 
the sd Henrietta Green is legally and justly entitled or will be 
legally and justly entitled to one child’s part of her father Dudley 
Baldwin estate at his death, also she the sd Henrietta Green will 
be entitled to one child’s part of her mother Rebecca Baldwin’s 
share of the estate of her father Thomas Roper given to sd 
Rebecca Baldwin by the last will and testament of the sd Thomas 
Roper.  The two above interests amounts to a number of Negroes 
and money, the names and amounts to ascertained at the time of 
the final division and whereas it has been stipulated & agreed 
between sd William Haywood & the sd Henrietta Green that the 
sd W. Haywood shall take hold use and enjoy the above 
mentioned property so long as they both the sd W. Haywood & 
the said Henrietta Green shall live and the survivors of them shall 
hold and use and enjoy the same so long as he or she may live and 
not longer, but that the said W. Haywood shall not convey any 
part of the sd property so as to defeat her the said Henrietta 
Green’s children of the inheritance that is to say the children that 
she now has or may hereafter have, notwithstanding the intended 
coveture of the sd W. Haywood & Henrietta Green, and that the 
above mentioned property shall not be liable for any of the 
contracts, ingaurants or obligations of the sd W. Haywood.  Now 
therefore in consideration of the promises and the further 
consideration of the sum of one dollar to the aforesaid Calvin J. 
Bruton to the sd W. Haywood & the sd Henrietta Green in hand 
paid, the receipt whereof is hereby fully acknowledged & they & 
each of them fully satisfied & contented & paid the sd Henrietta 
Green hath bargained sold & conveyed & by there presents hath 
bargained  & sold & conveyed & delivered & the sd W. Haywood 
hath released and confirmed & doth there presents, release and 
confirm unto the said Calvin Bruton his heirs, Exec, Admin the 
aforesaid personal property herein before mentioned to the uses, 
interests & benefits following, that is to say that the Calvin J. 
Bruton shall at any time and at all times whenever called upon by 
the children of the sd Henrietta Green, that she now has or may 
hereafter have, and after the death of both the sd W. Haywood & 
the sd Henrietta Green deliver to the children of the said Henrietta 
Green the above mentioned property & make good sure & lawful 
titles to the same by not until after the death of both the sd W. 
Haywood and the sd Henrietta Green, then it shall be by the sd 
Calvin J. Bruton conveyed and delivered over to the children that 
the sd Henrietta Green now has or may hereafter have or to so 
many of them as may be living, and if any of them shall not be 
living at the death of the survivors of the sd W. Haywood & 
Henrietta Green then to their legal representation as their sure, 
lawful & indefinable property
In Witness whereof we have hereunto set our hand & affixed our 
seal, signed, and delivered.
W. Haywood (seal)
Henrietta Green (seal)
Calvin J. Bruton (seal)

In the presence of Dudley M. Baldwin

March 1st 1862 When the foregoing Marriage Contract was 
offered for probate and the execution thereof duly sworn by the 
oath of Dudley M. Baldwin the subscribing witness Therefor it is 
ordered to be registered.

J. S. Spencer, CCC
K. H. McRae. Db