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discriptive and inclusive of such property as Complainants
said father might give her during his life time, otherwise
than by will.

5th. That Complainant's father a plain farmer
unversed in legal technicalities, and incapable of analysing
and understanding their legal effect at his residence on the
day & year in the first paragraph mentioned executed
the declaration of intention aforesaid, then and thence till
his death firmly believing that said declaration embraced
and protected all property he might give your Oratrix at
any time during his life time as well as such as might
come to her by his will or by descent. And your Oratrix
expressly charges that her said father at the time he
executed said declaration of intention believed that
the same would and intended that it should secure
to your oratrix as her separate estate free from the marital
right of her then present or any future husband all such
property as he might thereafter give her at any time during
his life time; and so he continued to believe and intend
up to the time of his death.

(2) 6th. That subsequent to the execution of said declaration
of intention and under and in consummation of the
provisions of the same so understood by him as aforesaid
Complainants father in his life time gave unto your Oratrix
the following personal property, to wit, six slaves, namely, Jacob
a man now aged about fifty years, Ann a woman now
aged about forty years, Sarah a woman now aged about
twenty eight years, Beck a woman now aged about thirty
years, Louisa a woman now aged about twenty one years
and Ishmael a man now aged about thirty five years
of whom, Beck hath since had issue, to wit, Jane a
daughter now aged about eleven years; and also one bay
horse of the value of one hundred Dollars and twenty five
dollars; beside one hundred Dollars in money, which
was in the year A.D. 1834 delivered to Complainant, present
husband hereinafter named and by him soon afterwards
applied to his own use.

7th. That Complainant over ten years since & in the
year A.D. 1834 in the State of Georgia at her then residence
intermarried with her present husband Elisha Betts of