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The State of Alabama } Be it remembered that there
Barbour County } was filed in the Office of the
Register & Master in Chancery for the ninth District
in the Southern Chancery Division of said State, a bill
of complaint in the words and figures following, to wit,

Bill State of Alabama - SS at Clayton in the ninth
District of the Southern Chancery Division.

To the Honorable Anderson Crenshaw, Chancellor of
said Division. Humbly complaining sheweth unto
your Honor your Oratrix Mariah Betts of said District
a feme covert who sues in this behalf by John
Welborn her next friend.

(1) 1st. That heretofore, to wit, on the 29th day of
October A.D. 1827 in Burke County in the State of Georgia
one Moses Walker of said County, and father of your
Oratrix, being in ill health and being desireous to
make some permanent provision by which he might
secure to your Oratrix as her seperate Estate free from
the Marital right of her their present or any future
husband not only such property as might come to her
by his death intestate or by his will, but also such as
he might give her at any time during his life time
in case he survived that illness, procured one Job Gresham
his friend, to get one John Schley a practising Attorney
to prepare a writing in accordance with such his
intention and desire.

2nd. That said Gresham immediately went to
said Attorney and on the part of Complainant's father
instructed him to draw a writing adopted to effect
the intention and desire of said Moses as set forth in
the foregoing paragraph.

3d. That said Attorney under said instructions
drew the declaration of intention, a copy of which
marked A. is herewith shewn and prayed to be taken
as part of this Bill.

4th. That said declaration was drawn under
a pressing emergency and while said Attorney was
Engaged in Court attending to a cause then being
tried, and so by mere accident, hurry and oversight
said Attorney omitted to insert therein terms properly