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{135} June 21. 1785 Then came Phillip Reed John Willis & Neal the three Subscribing Witnesses to the within last Will and Testament of John Ashley Junr. late of Kent County deceased, and Severally made Oath on the holy Evangels of Almighty God, that they did See the Testator herein named Sign and Seal this Will, And that they heard him publish pronounce and declare the same to be his last Will and Testament, and that he was at the same time of Sound disposing mind memory and Understanding According to the best of their Apprehensions, And that they Respectively Subscribed their names as Witnesses to this Will in the presence, and at the Request of the testator, and in the presence of each other. Before me JNicholson Regr In the name of God Amen I Issac Spencer of Kent County and State of Maryland being weak of body but of good Sound – mind and memory do this twentyeth day of May one thousand Seven hundred and Eighty three make & ordain this my last Will ~ and Testament in the manner and form as follows to Wit principally and first of all I give and bequeath unto my loving Son William – Spencer begotten of my Wife before Marrage my plantation & Mill on Prickel Pare branch in Kent County named Darby Smaley,- Billys lot and Neglect, I also give my said Son William three hundred Acres of land in Queen Anns County named Sandy Hurst, and the Pearl to be laid out in the following maner, begining at the mouth of the pearl creek and runing up the River till a South line from the River will make up three hundred Acres all the above lands I give to him his Heirs & Assigns for ever. Secondly I give and bequeath unto my loving Son Isaac Spencer ~ my dwelling plantation called Marrow Bone; also part of a tract called Grantham, Smiths Point, and Vianna, Mount Harmon, - friendship, and Saint Patricks Garden, as also my houses & lotts of New Market as also a peace of land in Queen Anns County called Crumpton all to him his heirs & Assigns for ever |
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