ase our affection,
cultivate our harmony, promote our happiness, and live in the fear of
God, and in obedience to His righteous laws.

"15th. That we use the relatives of each other with friendly kindness;
and that the same be extended to our friends and benefactors, mutually,
without grudging.

"16th. That the survivor of us endeavour, after the death of either of
us, to maintain the reputation and dignity of the deceased, by avoiding
levity of behaviour, dissoluteness of life and disgraceful marriage;
not only so, but that such survivor persevere in good offices to the
children of the deceased, as a discreet, faithful, and honourable
survivor ought to do.

"17th. That in case Jacob Sprier, after trial, shall not think it for
his interest, or agreeable to his disposition, to live at the
plantation where Deborah Leaming now resides, then, and in such case,
she to remove with him elsewhere upon a prospect promising to better
his circumstances or promote his happiness, provided the landed
interest of the said Deborah's late husband be taken proper care of for
the benefit of her son Christopher.

"18th. That the said Jacob Sprier be allowed from time to time to
purchase such books from our joint stock as he shall think necessary
for the advantage and improvement of himself and our children jointly,
or either of them, without grudging.

"19th. That the said Jacob Sprier do continue to keep Elisha Hughes,
and perform his express agreement to him according to indenture already
executed, and discharge the trust reposed in him the said Sprier by the
another of the said Elisha, without grudging or complaint.

"20th. And as the said Deborah Leaming, and the said Jacob Sprier, are
now something advanced in years and ought to take the comfort of life
as free from hard toil as convenience will admit, therefore neither of
them be subject thereunto unless in case of emergence, and this
exemption to be no ways censured by each other, provided they
supervise, contrive, and do the light necessary services incumbent on
the respected heads of a family, not omitting to cultivate their minds
when convenience will admit.

"21st. That if anything be omitted in the foregoing rules and
particulars, that may conduce to our future happiness and welfare, the
same to be hereafter supplied by reaso