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Provincial Court Land Records, 1744-1749
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       to the said Henry Welsh in Hand paid by the said Mary Higgens in part
       of her Marriage Portion the Receipt whereof he doth hereby acknowledge
       and for the making ^a^ Provision for a Maintenance and Livelihood for the
       said Mary Higgens in Case she shall happen to Outlive the said Henry
       Welsh her intended Husband and for the Setting the Messuages
       Lands Tenements and other Estate both Real and Personal to such
       Uses and to and for such Intents and Purposes and with and under
       such Provisoes Limitations and Agreements as are herein after
       Limited and expressed concerning the same if the said Marriage shall
       take Effect He the said Henry Welsh Hath Granted Sold Released
       and Confirmed And by these Presents Doth Grant Bargain Sell
       Release and Confirm unto the said Mary Higgens the afs.d Five
       Negroes Names Lucy, Ann, Eleanor, Mary and Davis Messuage with
       their Increase and Dwelling Plantation whereon the said Mary
       Higgens now lives to her and her Heirs and Assigns for Ever So that
       the same is not to any Part of the Estate of the said Henry Welsh And
       that it shall and may be Lawfull for the said Mary Higgens at any
       time by Writing or by her last Will and Testament to Dispose of
       the afs.d Land Premisses and Negroes to whom and in what manner
       she shall think fit which he the said Henry Welsh will Allow of
       and Confirm And for as much as he the said Henry Welsh is not at
       Present Posest of a Sufficient Estate to make a Jointure for the s.d
       Mary Higgens Equivalent to her Fortune He the said Henry Welsh
       for himself his Heirs and Assigns Covenants Premises and Grants
       to and with the said Mary Higgens her Heirs and Assigns that in Case
       the said Intended Marriage shall take Effect and he the said Henry
       Welsh should happen to Dye in the lifetime of the said Mary
       Higgens that then she the said Mary Higgens shall and will and is
       hereby Intituled to her Legal Dower of his Real Estate and Intituled
       to one half of his whole Personal Estate clear of all Debts to be at
       her ^own^ Disposal and to be by her taken and Received to her own
       seperate Use and Benefit In Witness whereof the Parties to
5 1/2 these Presents have hereunto Interchangeably set their Hands
       and Seals the Day and Year first above Written
       Sealed and Delivered                        Henry Welsh   Seal
       in the presence of
       William Cumming                              Mary Higgens   Seal
       Geo Luxford      Recorded 28.th Jan.ry 1748/9


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