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Kent County Register of Wills, 1781-1790
Volume 738, Page 113   View pdf image
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    In the name of God Amen I William Henry of George
   Town Kent County in the State of Maryland being of perfect heath of
   Body and of Sound and disposing mind, Memory, and Undestanding,
   Considering the Certainty of death, and the uncertainty of the time
   thereof, and being desireous to Settle my Worldly affairs, and be thereby
   the better prepared to leave this World when it shall please God to call
   me hence, do therefore make and publish this my last last Will and –
   Testament in manner and form following that is to say, after I am ~
   decent buried at the discretion of my Executor herein after named ~
   and after my funeral Charges and Just debts are paid, First it is my
   Will and desire, that if my Wife should be with child at the time of –
   my death that the said child should enjoy all my Estate both Real and
   personal, and if she shoud have twins, It is my Will and desire that
   my Estate shoud be equally divided between them, and that if either of
   them shoud die without lawfull Issue, that the Surviver injoy the
   whole, And farther, if both shoud die without Issue, or that my Wife ~
   shoud not be with child as afd, It is then my Will and desire that my ~
   whole Estate shou’d be divided in manner and form following, that is
   to Say, in four equal parts, one fourth part to my Brother James ~
   Henry, one fourth part to my Sister Martha Fitsgerrald of Kent County
   in the Delaware State, And one fourth part to my Sister Sarah Scaney [?]
   fo the same place, and the other fourth part to be equally divided ~
   between the Heirs of my Brother Hugh Henry late of Queen Anns County
   and State of Maryland, And in order to inable my Executor to comply
   with this my last Will and Testament, I do hereby desire that all my
   personal property may be sold at publick Vendue, and that the plantation
   upon which John Scaney [Seaney?] now lives (in Kent County delaware State ) –
   Supposed to contain about one Hundred and fifty Acres shall also be sold
   Immediately after the death of my Mother giving such Credit as may
   best answer those concern’d, or him in his Judgment think best,
   And inwithRespect to my House and Lott in George Town and the Improvements
   thereon, It is my Will and desire that my Wife shall have Immediate



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