In the name of God Amen, I
Rebecah Walker of Caroline County and State of Maryland, being sick and
weak of body but of sound and disposing mind, memory and understanding, and
considering the certainty of death and the uncertainty of the time thereof
and being desirous to settle my wordly affairs and thereby be the better
perpared to leave this world when it shall please God to call me home, 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 just debts and funeral charges are paid, I
(devise) and bequeath as follows,
Item, I devise and bequeath unto Margaret Fleharty the wife of
Joseph Fleharty my mare and carriage and one pine cupboard and the
furniture thereunto belonging.
Item, I give and bequeath unto my son Joseph Fleharty all my monie
which I have in hand and all my bonds and notes which I have now in my
possession.
Item, I give unto my son Richard Fleharty all moneys which I might
have been entitled to from him in consequence of the rents of a farm whereon
he now lives which I was entitled to one third part of the same, it is my
will and desire also that William Fleharty, my grandson, pay unto his
brother Richard Fleharty, my grandson also, the sum of twenty dolars
which money I lent to William Fleharty, for which money I took no
obligation for.
Item, I devise and bequeath all the rest and residue of my estate to be
equally divided between my two sons Joseph Fleharty and Richard
Fleharty to them their heirs and assigns forever, in equal portions
shear and shear alike, it is also my will and desire that there shall be no
administration on my estate and lastly I do hereby constitute and appoint my
son Joseph Fleharty my sole executor of this my last will and
testament, revoking and annuling all other wills by me heretofore made,
ratifing and conferming this and none other to be my last will and
testament. In Testamony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my
seal this Eighth day of May in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and
seventeen.
Rebeca Walker Seal
Witnesses: James Brannock, Abel Gouty, William "X"
Fleharty
Caroline County to Wit:
July the 2nd 1817: Then came Joseph Fleharty the executor...of
Rebecca Walker, late of Caroline County, deceased...
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