This Indenture made
this Eighteenth day of December in the year of our Lord Eighteen Hundred
and forty five by and between John RUMBOLD of Caroline County and State
of Maryland of the one part and Margaret THORRINGTON of the same County
and State aforesaid of the other part ~
Whereas a Marrage is agreed
upon and intended to be had and Solemnized between the said John RUMBOLD
and the said Margaret and upon the treaty of said marrage it hath been
agreed by & between the said John & the said Margaret that in case
the said Margarett outlived and survived the said John that the said Margarett
should not claim Dower either at common law or by any other law out of
the estate of the said John either real personal or mixed but that she
should have a sum of money agreed upon and hereinafter expressed in lieu
thereof and as a full bar of any claim of dower therein
Now this Indenture witnesseth
that the said John in consideration of the premices and also of divers
other good causes and considerations him thereunto moving doth by these
presents for himself his heirs executers and administraters and assigns
covenant promice and agree to and with the said Margarett her heirs executors
administrators and assigns in manner following to wit That in case the
said intended marriage shall take effect and the said Margarett shall outlive
and survive the said John He the said John shall by his last will bequeath
to or otherwise secure for the said Margarett the sum of two hundred dollars
current money to be in her own proper right and at her absolute disposal
and in case the said John shall not by his last will bequeath to or otherwise
secure for the said Margarett the said sum of money the heirs executors
or administrators of the said John shall within a reasonable time to be
computed from the death of said John pay and satisfy unto the said Margarett
her heirs executors administrators or assigns the said sum of two hundred
dollars current money to be in her own proper right and at her absolute
disposal as aforesaid And the said John is consideration of the premices
doth further hereby for himself his heirs executors and administrators
covenant promise and agree to and with the said Margarett her heirs executors
and administrators and assigns that in case the said intended marriage
shall take effect and the said John and the said Margarett shall have issue
lawfully born to them during the said said intended coverture and the said
Margarett with one or more of said issue shall happen to outlive and survive
the said John Then he the said John shall by his last will bequeath to
or otherwise secure for the said Margarett the rents proffits and income
of a farm & premises situated in Caroline county which the said John
purchased from one Batchelder G. CHANCE and William CHANCE to have and
to hold the said rents profits and income of the said land and premices
to the said Margarett in her own right and at her own disposal for and
during her natural life And the said Margarett in consideration of the
premices and of the benefits and advantanges likely to arrive to her from
the said intended marriage doth on her part expressly covenant promice
and agree to and with the said John his heirs executors and administrators
that she the said Margarett will consent to accept and take the said sum
of money the provision herein before made for her in lieu bar and full
satisfaction of all such dower and thirds at the common law or by any other
law which she should or might have had claimed or been entiled to out of
any land temements or Hereditaments whereof the said John now is or at
any time during the coverture or said intended marriage between them shall
be seized of any estate of inheritance and also in lieu bar and full satisfaction
of any Dower or of all such part or share of the personal estate of the
said John which she the said Margarett may claim or be intilted to by Law
In testimoney whereof the
said John and the said Margarett have hereto sett their hands and seal
the day and year first above written.
Signed John Rumbold
Margarett X Thornton
Signed sealed & delivered
in presence of John F. ELLIOTT and Paul CONAWAY
