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Kent County Register of Wills, 1781-1790
Volume 738, Page 177   View pdf image
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                                      177            Mattw. Smith
    In the Name of God Amen I^ being Sick & week
   in Body but of sound mind and memory and Knowing that all
                                                   what
   Men once must die, as to my Maker worldly property my maker
   has bin pleas’d to bestow me, I will and desire as followeth, first my
   will is that my Just debts and Buriel Expences, be paid — –
   Secondly, I Give and Bequeath to my loving wife Hannah
   Smith all the residue and remainder of my estate real and
   personal during her Natural life and at hir Disseas my —
   will is that my Sisters Hannah Smith have what I above have
   will’d my Wife, witness my hand and Seal this Fifteenth
   day of July seventeen hundred and Eighty five ——
                                                             Matthew Smyth {Seal}
   Sign’d and Seal’d in presents of us, and at the request of the —
   Testator N.B. the words, at and my was interlin’d before Sign’d
   and Seal ——Gillt. Falconar, Walter Meeds, John
   Rolinson ———————————————
  // June 23rd. 1786 Then came Walter Meeds one of the Subscribing
   Witnesses to the within last will and Testament of Mathew Smith
   late of Kent County decd and made oath on the Holy Evangels of
    Almighty God, that he did see the Testator therein named sign
   and Seal this will and that he heard him publish pronounce &
   and declare the same to be his last will and Testament that at the time
   of his so doing he apprehended the Testator was in Liquor & that some
   time after he had sign’d sd, will, to wit three or four days, he the sd,
   Testator then being Sober & in his proper Senses Informed him this
   deponant that he had made this will and approved thereof, and
   that Gilbert Falconer & Jno. Rolinson the other Subscribing witness was pre=
 = sent at the same time & Signed their names as witnesses to this will
   together with this deponant in the presence & at the request of the Testator
   & in the presence of each other
                                                   Before J Nicholson Regr—



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