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{227} Die to her Daughter Araminta Bird after she Comes to the Age of Sixteen to be paid her at that time and for her use before that age If her Mother should Die, If Edward Bird should Die before his Wife Rachel then I Desire my Son in Law John Berry to give Immediately in Possession the said Negro Man, Dick, Horse Called Bird Colt, and Feather Bed to Rachel my Daughter^ Bird for her use to Doe what she Pleases with. If Rachel Bird and her Daughter should Die before they or Either of them, Posses the above Desire of mine, then my will is that the s,d Negro Mans Dick a Horse Called Bird Colt and Feather Bed be Divided to my Children that now living Fourthly I will and Bequeath the Rest of my Estate to be Equally Divided between my five Children William Gooding, Mary Brewer, Sarah Jones, Ann Berry, and Rebecca Benton, Fifthly I Appoint my Son W,m Gooding and my Son in law John Berry, Joint Executors of this my last Will by me made In Witness whereof I have hereunto Sett my hand and Seal this Fifthy day of April Anno Domini 1786 her Test Sarah X Gooding {Seal} Will Granger | Mark Tho.s S Sudler| Au:st13.th1787 then Came Thos. S. Sudler one of the Subscribing Witnesses to the within last Will and Testament of Sarah Gooding late of Kent County deced, and made Oath on the Holy Evangels of Almigh= God, that he did see the Testator, therein Named Sign and Seal this Will ~ and that he heard her Publish Pronounce and Declare the same to be her last Will and Testament, that at the Time of her so doing she was to the best of his Apprehensions of sound and Disposing mind Memory and unders= =tanding and that W.m Granger the other Subscribing witness was Present at the Same time, and Sign’d his Name as a witness to this Will together with this Deponant in the Presence and at the Request of the Testator and in the Presence of each other. Before Jn.o Nicholson Reg.r |
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