> MORSE AND GRAY MARRIAGE CONTRACT - Deed Book pg. 459, Caldwell Co., KY. > Whereas a Marriage will soon be consumated between N. M. MORSE of Graves > Co., KY and Miss PAULINA B. GRAY of Caldwell County, Kentucky and they > by agreement have made the following contract, viz: each party now > owns lands, town lots, slaves, money and other personal property and by > agreement each party is to own and have the exclusive control of their > separate property, neither party to have any legal interest or control > over the property owned by them respectively outside or beyond the > consent of the other. they each retain all the legal rights of > property which now owned or hereafter acquired is to be the seperate > property of the party now owning or hereafter acquiring the same, > and this is to be the ruling in case of death unless a different one > is to laid down by last will & testament. November 2d 1864. > N. M. Morse > P.B. Gray > STATE OF KENTUCKY > Caldwell County > (Fees paid - Del. to J. L. Morse > for verbal order Nov. 9th 1864)