The State of Texas}
Polk County }
A Schedule of property which Mariah I. Wynn, the wife of James
Winn of the said state and county now owns and possesses to wit Polly
aged about
twenty years of dark complexion. Rob aged about fourteen
years of dark complexion
in which said two Negroes was owned and possessed by me at the time
of my inter
marriage with my Husband James Winn which took place in the now
State of Texas
(then the Republic of Texas in the year Eighteen Hundred and forty)
also one negro
woman aged about seventeen years of dark complexion and her child
about seven
months do by the name of Milton which two said last mentioned negroes
have been
transferred to me by said Husband James Winn in consideration of his
having sold a
negro girl that was owned and possessed by me at time of our inter
marriage and by said
Husband sold and the proceeds thereof applied to the purchase of the
said woman and
child last mentioned.
Maria L. Winn
Jas. Winn
The State of Texas}
Polk County }
Personally appeared this day before me William B. Williamson
Notary Public in and for the County and State aforesaid duly commissioned
and Sworn
Mariah I? Winn the wife of James Winn with whom are to me well
known who
acknowledges and claims the property described in the foregoing Schedule
to be her
Separate Property and now in the possession of herself and Husband
all of which She
acknowledges her professed oath also appeared James Winn the
husband of the said
Mariah L? Winn whose name is signed to the said Schedule to me well
known who
acknowledges that he assigned the James and that the Property therein
named is the
Separate Property of his said wife Mariah L. Winn As Sutch I
hereby Certify the Same
and sing my name and affix the Seal of my office this the fourteenth
day of August
eighteen hundred and forty nine.
{Notarial Seal}
W. B. Williamson
Notary Public
Filed for Record at 8 O’clock A.M. 20 Aug. 1849
Jno. P. Kale Clk & R. P.Co.
Note: The following interlineation in the foregoing Schedule towit
“Me, My” in the
7th line in Certif of N. P. thereto “before me” in 2nd & “husband”
in 10th line Erasures in
7th, 11th, 12th, & in the Cer. of N. P. 2nd & 10th--
The State of Texas }
Polk County
} This is to certify that the foregoing Schedule and Certificate
thereto were recorded in my office in Record Book B of the Separate
Property of Married
Women pages 4 & 5 at 3 O’clock P.M. 21st Aug 1849
{Seal} Witness my hand and the seal of
my office the last date written.
Jno. P. Kale Clk & R. Polk Co.
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