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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