A Schedule Containing a list of the personal estate Constituting the
Separate Property of
Mrs. Penelope D. Martin Consort of Edmund D. Martin of Polk County
of the State of
Texas to Wit:
One Negro man named Wilson of Copper or yellow complexion about thirty
five years of
age and about five feet
and eight inches in height.
One Negro woman named Candis of Copper or yellow complexion and about
thirty years
of age
One Negro girl named Jane the child of the above name Candis of copper
or yellow
complexion and about nine
years of age
One Negro girl also the Child of said Candis of Dark complexion and
named Lucy about
eight years of age
One Negro boy named Nathan? the Child of said Candis of Copper or yellow
complexion
and about five years of
age
One Negro boy named Wiley also the Child of Candis of Copper or yellow
complexion
and about three years old
One Negro boy the Child of Candis of yellow complexion about five months
old
All the above named Negroes
being Slaves for life to the Said Penelope D. Martin her
heirs and assigns—Also one Dark brown Mule 6 years old
One Bay Horse 10 years old
One Board? Wagon. One Gin Stand the Same being on the homestead
plantation. Four
Yoke or pairs of work oxen.
The State of Texas}
Polk County }
Personally appeared before me the undersigned Chief Justice Mrs.
Penelope D. Martin who to me makes the following Statement:
I Penelope D. Martin
have designated the items of property Contained in the Schedule written
on the first page
of this sheet and hereby claim and acknowledge the Same to be my Separate
Property in
contradiction? to any Claimed or owned in Community by myself
and my husband.
Penelope D. Martin
In testimony of the facts herein before mentioned the signing of the
above statements by
the Said Penelope D. Martin and her Claim and acknowledgement of the
property known
in the Said Schedule to be her Separate Property. I have hereunto
set my hand and
affixed the Seal of the County this the Twenty eight day of August
in the year One
thousand eight hundred and Fifty.
{Seal}
W. R Moore
C. Justice of Polk County Texas
Filed for Record at 10 O’Clock AM 28th Aug 1850
Jno. P. Kale Clk & R P.C
Note: the word “g” in Schedule – 1st line written on erasure-and the
word “Five” in 11th
‘Of yellow or Copper” in 16th “that” in 4th of the foregoing Schedule
erasure—also the
letter “g” in the 4th line erasure and the word property” in the 4th
line of said Schedule
written on erasures.
The State of Texas}
Polk County
} I certify that the foregoing Schedule and Certificates thereto were
this day recorded in my office in Record Book of the Separate Property
of Married
Women B pages 9 & 10 at 11 O’Clock AM
{Seal} Witness my hand and the Seal of my office this 4th Sept.
1850
Jno. P. Kale Clk & R P.C
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