Petty v. Petty

Jemima Petty, a few days after her intermarriage with Ransdall Petty, filed a bill against him and his children by a former wife, three of whom were infants, in which she charges, in substance, that he, being much the elder, and in good circumstances, as an inducement to the contract of marriage, and as the means of providing for her a support in the event of his death, “promised and assured to her, that if she would marry him that he would immediately after marriage make a deed of settlement, by which he would settle on her at his death a negro and four thousand dollars out of the price of…