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Deputy Commissary's Guide within the Province of Maryland, 1774
Volume 139, Page 66   View pdf image (33K)
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66        WILLS and TESTAMENTS.

    hear him publish, pronounce and declare
    the same to be his last will and testament?
 

Thirdly.  Do you, to the best of your apprehension, 
    believe, that the testator was at the
    time of his so doing, of sound and disposing
    mind, memory, and understanding?
 
Fourthly.  Have you respectively subscribed your
    names to this will, at the request, and in the
    presence of the testator, and have you done
    the same in the presence of each other?
 

 
 
 
 

Probate to
wills by the
witnesses.

    These questions being answered in the affirmative,
they are to take the following oath;
which is also to be entered at the foot of the
will, viz.
            ------ county, ss. the --- day of --- 177.
Then came A. B.  C. D. and E. F. the three subscribing    
    witnesses to the within last will and testament
    of N. N. late of ------ county deceased, and
    severally made oath on the holy evangels of almighty

    God, that they did see the testator therein named
    sign and seal this will, and that they heard him
    publish, pronounce and declare the same to be his
    last will and testament; that at the time of his so
    doing, he was, to the best of their apprehensions,
    of sound and disposing mind, memory, and understanding;

    and that they respectively subscribed
    their names as witnesses to this will, in the presence,


 
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