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175 In the Name of God Amen I Sarah Craig of Kent County in the State of Maryland being in perfect health of Body and of sound disposing mind and memory considering the certainty of death and the uncertainty of the Time thereof and being desirous to settle my worldly affairs and thereby be the better prepared to leave this world when it shall please God to call me hence do therefore make and publish this my last will and Testament in manner and form following that is to say - - First and principally I commit my Soul into the Hands of Almighty God and my Body to the Earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my Executor herein after named and after my debts and funeral Ccharges are paid I devise and bequeath as follows I Give and devise all that Piece of Ground which I bought of Cooter Griffith and known or distinguised by the Name of Lot Number 62 and whereon my dwelling House now Stands unto my Son Robert Reid for and untill my Grandson James Reid Son of my deceased Son John Reid shall come and arrive to his age of Twenty one years, then I Give and devise the same unto – my said Grandson James Reid for and during his Natural Life, and after his death I Give and devise the same to the first second third and every other Son and Sons of the Body of my said Grandson successively and in remainder the one after the other as they shall be in priority of Birth and Seneority of age and the several and respective Heirs of the Bodies of each first second third and other Son and Sons as afd. the eldest of such Sons and the Heirs of his Body being preferred and to take before any of the younger Sons and the Heirs of his Body and in default of such Heirs |
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