Provincial Court Proceedings, 1669.     469




       in the County of Càlvert of the other part, Witnesseth that the above- Liber JJ
       said Margaret Preston and William Berry have fully and perfectly
       concluded, and agreed that the said Margaret doth reserve for her
       owne proper use and behoof before she doth ingage her self in
       marriage to the said William Berry the vallue of One hundred pounds
       sterling to be at her the said Margarets owne disposall in such goods
       as shall be hereafter mentioned: vizt,
        Plate to the vallue and worth of forty pounds sterling.
        The little Negro Girle called sarah borne in Richard Prestons
       house, vallued to Tenn pounds sterling, if the said Girle should dy,
       the said William Berry to make the same good to the said Margaret
       by another Negro or the vallue.
        A good mare to ride on vallue seaven pounds sterling.
        A Chamber or Roome to be well furnished with bedding and furni-
       ture with other household stuffe to the vallue of forty three pounds
       sterling.
        And for a further Testimony that the abovementioned Articles are
       fully and perfectly concluded and agreed upon by the Partyes afore-
       said, The said William Berry both binde himself his heires Execu-
       tours and Administrators to the true performance of all and Every
       of the abovementioned articles to the full vallue as is aforementioned
       whensoever the said Margaret Preston shall make demand of the
       same for her owne proper use, but if it shall be so ordered after the
       aforementioned William Berry and Margaret Preston be married
       that the said william shall dye first, that then the abovesaid goods
       or the vallue doe remaine firme to and for the said Margarets owne
       proper use, as she shall thinke fit to bestow, over and above her
       proportion of the estate which by the said William Berry shall be
       left her, for the True performance of this agreement, the abovesaid
       William Berry hath hereunto set his hand and seale this ninth day
       of the Tenth Moneth called December in the ycare One Thowsand
       six hundred Sixty and nine.  William Berry sealed
       Signed and sealed
        in presence of
            George Deulins
            Wm Jones
       Recorded at the instance and request of the abovenamed William
       Berry January the 8th 1669.

        Know all men by these presents that I George Corwin of salem in
       the Collony of the Massachusets in New England Marchant for
       diverse good Cawses and Considerations me thereunto moving, Have
       made constituted and Ordained, and Doe by these presents make con-
       stitute ordaine and appoint my Trusty and wellbeloved Frends An-
       drew Woodberry and Isaac Woodberry Juniour both of them of
       salem aforesaid Marriners my true and law full Atturneys for me and
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