Elizabeth Schrader ²

   Other names for Elizabeth were Schroedar and Schroeder.

  General Notes:

Prenuptial Agreement: Thomas Hall & Elizabeth Troutman, 1816, Bullitt County, KY

Bullitt County Deed Book C p. 311
Bullitt County To Wit: Whereas a marriage is shortly intended to be solemnized between Thomas HALL of the County of Nelson and State of Kentucky of the one part and Mrs. Elizabeth TROUTMAN of the County of Bullitt and State aforesaid of the other part and whereas the parties each have children and are desirous of ob---ting uneasiness & jealousies which too frequently arise in similar cases and tend in
their Consequence to interrupt the repose and destroy the peace of families and Individuals - They have mutually agreed to enter into the following covenant and agreement which shall be obligatory on them after the consummation of their marriage. In the first plan it is stipulated & agreed that a true and perfect inventory shall be made of the whole of the personal property of which the said Elizabeth
TROUTMAN shall be possessed at the time of her marriage and which actually belongs to her - which when valued shall be at her own disposal. That is the said T. HALL agrees that she shall dispose of the afores'd amount to whomsoever she pleases either by Deeds or Will without any hinderances or molestation from
him - In Consideration of Which concession and in consideration of the said Thomas HALL drawing from resources he owned previous to this intended marriage to promote their mutual Interest - she the said Elizabeth TROUTMAN agrees that in the event of his death she will relinquish all claim or right which she would be allowed to have to property owned by him previous to their Intermarriage.

It is further agreed between the parties that whatever may be acquired by their future Industry shall be equally divided between them or shall belong to them in the same manner as if they had no children - the said HALL further agrees on his part that neither the personal property of the said Elizabeth TROUTMAN nor her dower in lands or negroes shall ever be subject to the payment of any debt by the said HALL may now owe Nor by agreement is his property to be liable to any payment of any debt or debts which may come against the estate of of Mr. M. TROUTMAN, dec'd - the parties also mutually and voluntarily agree that they will contribute as far as they can to the discharge of debts to which the estate of the before mentioned Michael TROUTMAN dec'd is liable without too much injuring their Capital or destroying the means of Carrying on their business over a respectable (?) scale and for the
performance of all and every part of the above Covenant and agreement the parties thereto have hereunto set their hands and affixed their seals this 26 day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.

(signed)
T. HALL
Elizabeth (X) TROUTMAN

in the presence of Philip TROUTMAN
Jonathan SIMMONS
Lewis (X) LETTURS (?) (LITTICE?) (LITTENS?)

Recorded in Bullitt County KY Court 23 July 1816
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Ancestors were said to have come from Holland.

Elizabeth married John Michael Troutman Sr., son of Johan Leonhart Trautmann and Anna, on 4 Jan 1784 in Frederick County, Maryland. (John Michael Troutman Sr. was born on 28 Oct 1739 in Bayern, Germany, died about 24 Jul 1814 in Shepherdsville, Bullitt County, Kentucky and was buried in Saint Patrick Catholic Cemetery, Hardin County, Kentucky.)

Elizabeth next married Thomas Hall in 1816 in Bullitt County, Kentucky.