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Kent County Register of Wills, 1781-1790
Volume 738, Page 118   View pdf image
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    In the name of God amen I Gustavus Hanson Senr. of
   Kent County in the State of Maryland being weak in body but of ~
   sound memory (thanks be unto God) do make ordain and declare
   this to be my last Will and Testament in the manner & form follow^ing
   Imprimis my Will is that all my just debts be honestly paid —
   2dly: I give and bequeath unto my loving Wife Catharine three and
   twenty and a half Acres of Land called Orchards Neck more or less
   which I purchased from William Houston beginning at the first ~
   bounds of Orchards Neck runing up Orchards Creek to the first
   deep Valey, and from thence a Strait line to the Second bounds –
   now being laid out for me for three and twenty acres and a half ~
   with all houses and tenements belonging to the said three & twenty
   acres and a half besides her thirds of all the rest of my lands during
   her natural life —
   3.dly I give and bequeath & devise unto my son George Adolphus
   Hanson my plantation lying on the mouth of Langfords Bay (which
   being part of a Tract of Land called Langfords Neck) with all apurten
  =ances thereunto belonging. if the said George Adolphus should die
   before he comes to the years of Twenty one, My Will is that my Son Edward
   Hanson shall enjoy the said Land called Langfords Neck to him and
   his Heirs for ever. —
   4thly I give and bequeath and devise unto my son George Adolphus the
   one half of my pew in St. pauls parish the said half pew to go with the
   Land abovementioned except it is sold —
   5thly. I give and bequeath unto my son Edward Hanson my plantation
   lying on the head of Sassafrass River the one part called Mill Fork +
   the other the Adventure being two hundred Acres more or less, If the
   said Edward should die before he comes to the years of twenty one ~
   my Will is that my Son George Adolphus shall enherit the said land ~
   called Mill Fork and^theAdventure ——
   6ly. I give & bequeath unto my Son Gustavus Hanson all my Tract of Land
   lying on Farlow Creek & Orchards Creek except what I have above bequeathd
   unto my loving Wife Catharine. — 7ly. I give & bequeath unto my
                                                                                                  Son



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