ALABAMA, Jefferson County: Martin and Tarrant (1839)

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STATE OF ALABAMA Jefferson County
DEEDS – WILLS – ADMINISTRATIONS 1836-Vol. 6-1839
DEED OF TRUST Page 1-2 GEORGE STARNES & MARGARET MARTIN to B. TARRANT, Trustee, both of Jefferson County, Alabama.
Enslaved Persons:
Austin, Ben, Sam, Isaac, Little Ben, Hannah, Aggy, and Little Hannah & a negro woman slave named Jude. 

GEORGE STARNES & MARGARET MARTIN to B. TARRANT, Trustee, both of
Jefferson County, Alabama. Premises and $1.00. The tract of land containing 300 acres,
being the tract on which I now live, also the following named negro slaves, to wit:
Austin, Ben, Sam, Isaac, Little Ben, Hannah, Aggy, and Little Hannah & a negro woman slave named Jude. Whereas a marriage is intended to be solemnized between Starnes and Martin & Starnes is sized & possessed of real & personal estate, of which the above lands & eight negroes are apart & divers other articles of personal property consisting of
horses, cattle, hogs, sheep, household furniture & farming utensils & Margaret Martin is possessed of the above last named negro woman Jude, & it is desirable to regulate the descent of said real estate & the distribution of the personal estate to prevent law suits &
disputes. In consideration of the premises, that is to say in trust for Starnes during his life to suffer and permit him to have the use & control of the real estate & personal property, & to permit him to despose of any part of same by deed or other wise & at his death such of said property as may remain unsold to be divided & distributed in as follows, vis: If there be any issue of the intended marriage then said estate to be distributed amongst
such issue so as to make a portion as nearly equal as may be with what Starnes has heretofor given to each of the following children of his, the said Starnes, to wit: Jonathan B., George W., & Minerva Starnes & Mahala Mattison which division & distribution shall not take place during the life of MAragert Martin, who is to have a life estate in the property provided she survives Starnes. If there be no issue of said marriage then after the death of Margaret Martin, B. Tarrant shall divide & distribute the property, after the payments of all just debts of Starnes equally among his above named children, in such manner as they may direct-and Margaret Martin for & in consideration of the sum of $1 etc., sells to B. Tarrant, in trust, the before mentioned negro woman, Jude, for the use of George Starnes during their joint lives & at her death to be sold or otherwise disposed of for the joint benefit of her four children, viz: Robert, Washington, Warren & Elizabeth
Martin, share & share alike-wit: William A. Walker & Geo. L. Green0Dated Jan. 11, 1836. Signatures of George Starnes, Margaret Martin, & B. Tarrant to the foregoing conveyance proved before Baylis E. Grace, Clk. C.C. Feb. 1, 1836. Filed Feb. 1, recorded
Feb. 10, 1836, B.E. Grace, Clk. C.C. Relinquishment of her life estate to & in all the estate both real & personal of the said George Starnes, deceased, secured to her by the within deed, on the conditions expressed in an instrument bearing date the 1st day of
April, 1837, & signed by the within named heirs of the said George Starnes deceased.
(Signed) Margaret (X) Starnes-Act before B. Tarrant, Justice of the Peace, April 1, 1837.