LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF JOHN REDMAN
In the Name of God Amen. The Twentieth day of January Anno Domino
1731. I John Redman of St. Mary’s
County in the Province of Maryland Planter being very Sick and Weak in Body but
of perfect Mind and Memory, thanks be given unto God, therefore Calling into
Mind the Mortality of my Body and Knowing that it is appointed for all men once
to Dye do make & ordain this My Last Will & Testament, that is to Say,
principally and first of all I Recommend my Sout into the Hands of God that
gave it and my Body I Recommend to the Earth to be buried in decent Christian
Burial at the Discretion of my Ex’e hereafter Named. Nothing Doubting but at the General Resurrection I Shall Receive
the Same again by the Mighty Power of God - And as Touching Such Worldly Estate
Wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this Life I Give devise and
dispose of the Same in the following Manner and forms.
Imprimis. I give and bequeath unto my beloved Daughter Elizabeth Redman, a
Bed and Furniture it being the bed on wc’h I now lie.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my Said Daughter Elizabeth Redman all
that tract or parcell of Land lying and being in St. Mary’s County and
Contiguous to ye Plantation of Nicholas Brown to her & her heirs for ever.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my beloved Son Jeremiah Redman one bed
& furniture thereto belonging.
Item. I Give and bequeath unto Jeremiah Redman my son & Elizabeth
my Daughter all my Pewter and the Rest of my household Furniture to be Equally
Divided between them.
Item. I Give and bequeath unto my beloved Son Jeremiah Redman One Black
horse Called Negroe and my Gun
Item. I give and bequeath unto my Son Thomas Redman Sixty Pounds of
Geese Feathers
Item. I Give and bequeath unto my beloved Son Daniel Redman a Cow and
also a Sow and five Piggs and one Guilt
Item. I Give and bequeath unto my beloved Son Vincent Redman One Bay
Horse Called Diamond.
Item. I give unto my beloved Daughter Elizabeth Redman ye Sow Spot with
her Six Piggs.
Item. I Give and bequeath unto my Daughter Anne Lake Two of the best
Barrows that are to be found amongst my Stock of Hoggs next fall.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my Three Daughters, Viz. Ann Lake,
Sarah Robinson and Elizabeth Redman all my Stock and Sheep to be equally
divided between them.
Item. I Give and bequeath unto my Son Jeremiah Redman a Sow & five
Piggs.
Item. I Give and bequeath unto my Daughter Elizabeth Redman Two, two
year old Heifers and two Cow Yearlings & their Increase.
Item. I Give and bequeath unto my son Thomas Redman one brindle Star
(?) Three Years Old -
Item. I Give and bequeath unto ny Daughter Sarah Robinson One Cow and
her Increase.
Item. My Will is that ye Residue of my Stock of Cattle and Hoggs which
is not before Devised be equally Divided between my Three Children hereafter
Named, Viz. Jeremiah Redman, Thomas Redman and Elizabeth Redman.
Item. I Give and bequeath unto my Son Daniel Redman One bed &
Furniture.
Item. I Give and bequeath unto my son Jeremiah Redman, and my Daughter
Elizabeth Redman Thirty Nine Geese to be equally Divided between them.
Item. I Give and bequeath unto my son Jeremiah Redman and my Daughter
Elizabeth Redman Three Thousand five hundred Pounds of Tobacco to be divided
between them (it being a debt Due to me from Peter Peake) So Soon as the Same
Shall be received.
Item. My Will is, that when ye assigned Three thousand thousand
[sic] five-Hundred Pounds of Tobacco
Shall be received that five hundred thereof be paid to my Son Daniel Redman and
five hundred more to my Daughter Ann Lake or their Heirs.
Item. I Give and bequeath unto my beloved Son Soloman Redman One
Shilling.
Item. I Give and bequeath unto my beloved Son John Redman One
Shilling.
Item. I Give and bequeath unto my Daughter Frances Fryer One Shilling.
Item. I Give and bequeath unto my Grandson John Lake a piece of Land
in the Pasture to him and his Heirs for Ever.
Item. I Likewise Constitute make and Ordain my beloved Sons Vincent
Redman, Jeremiah Redman & Daniel Redman my Executors of this my Last Will
and testament, and I do hereby utterly disallow, Revoke & Disannull all
& Every other former Testaments, Wills Legacies and bequests & Ex’ed by
me in any ways before named Willed and bequeathed Ratifieing and Confirming
this and no other to be my Last will and Testament, In Witness whereas I have
hereunto Set my hand and Seal the Day & Year before Written
his
mark
John Redman
Signed Sealed Published Pronounced
and Declared by the Said John Redman
as his Testament and Last Will in the
Presence of
Thomas Howard
William Medcalf
(his mark)
Peter Mugg
Febry ye 10th . 1731
Then came Thomas Howard William
Medcalf, and Peter Mugg, The Three Subscribing Witnesses to the foregoing Will
and made Oath on the Holy Evangelists of Allmighty God-that they saw the
Testator John Redman Sign and Seal, and heard him publish and Declare the Same
as his Last Will and Testament, and that at the time of his So doing he was to
the best of their Knowledge and Apprehension of Sound and Disposing Mind and
Memory, and That they ye aforesaid Thomas Howard William Medcalf and Peter Mugg
as Witnesses did Subscribe the aforesaid Will in the Presence of the […]
Testator
Sworn to before me
Tho. Aisquith Depty Com.
Of St. Marys County
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