Before Charles Tessier, Notary Public in the Parish of East Baton Rouge, appeared St. Julien de Tournillon and Mary Brown, who were to be married. Tournillon stated that he was a native of Lyons and the legitimate son of St. Julien Tournillon and [H]yacinthe Reynault. Mary Brown said she was a native of Dublin, the daughter of Clement Brown and Catharine Byerne, and the widow of P. Livingston Jones. The couple mutually agreed to be united in marriage under certain conditions, enumerated in the document, governing the property and monies that each possessed prior to the ceremony.