3rd attempt: Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 21:51:24 -0400 To: [email protected] From: William R Mattingly <[email protected]> Subject: Henry Mattingly's 2nd marriage Henry Mattingly and Eliza E. Goodrick entered into a marriage agreement, recorded in Charles County, Maryland, liber R. H. M. 1, page 675: "This indenture made this 13th day of September in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and fifty between Henry Mattingly of the one part and Eliza E. Goodrick of the second part, Frederick Stone Trustee of the third part, all of Charles County and State of Maryland, witnesseth whereas a marriage is intended shortly to be had and solemnized between the said Henry Mattingly and the said Eliza E. Goodrick and whereas the said Eliza E. Goodrick for and in consideration of the said marriage hath agreed to release, surrender, and give up all claims, right, or interest which she may hereafter have in and to any property real or personal or mixed of which the said Henry Mattingly may die siezed and possessed. In the event of her, the said Eliza E. Goodrick surviving the said Henry Mattingly and for more effectual carrying out said agreement the said Henry Mattingly and the said Eliza E. Goodrick have agreed to execute these presents. Now therefore this indenture witnesseth that for and in consideration of the premises the said Henry Mattingly hath given, granted, bargained, and sold, aliened and conveyed and by these premises doth give, grant, bargain, and sell, alien, enfeoff, release, convey, and confirm unto the said Frederick Stone Trustee as aforesaid the whole personal property of which the said Henry Mattingly is now seized and possessed consisting of Negroes, stock, farming utensils, furniture, and produce. To have and to hold all said property with the increase thereof unto the said Frederick Stone for the following uses and purposes, to wit, for the sole use and benefit of the said Henry Mattingly for and during the life of said Henry Mattingly, the said Henry Mattingly to have the control and management of the said property during his life and to have full power to sell and dispose of the same or any part thereof which he may think proper and also the said Henry Mattingly to have full power to dispose of the same by last will and testament and at the death of said Henry Mattingly said property with all the increase thereof to go to such person or persons as the said Henry Mattingly mey bequeath it to be last will and testament and in the event of the said Henry Mattingly dying without making a last will and testament then the said property to go to the heirs of the said Henry Mattingly and the said Eliza E. Goodrick doth hereby for and in consideration of the aforesaid marriage release all claim or right which she may now or ever have to any of the aforesaid property in the event of her surviving the said Henry Mattingly, except such as may be bequeathed to her by the last will and testament of the said Henry Mattingly. In testimony whereof the said parties have hereunto set their hands and afixed their seals on the day and year first herein before written. Signed, sealed, and delivered in the presence of Peregrine Davis, J. P. Henry Mattingly Eliza E. Goodrick Frederick Stone"