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WILL OF JOSEPH GORRELL
In the Name of God Amen, I Joseph Gorrell of Harford County and State of Maryland being weak of body but sound of memory blessed be God do this fourteenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand Seven hundred & ninety two make & publish this my last will & Testament in manner and form following that is to say~ IMPRIMUS I give to my loving wife Mary Gorrell all my personal Estate after my funeral rites & just debts is paid out of it & likewise all my Real Estate during her natural life which is part of a tract of land known by the name of Smith�s Mistake for which I have Hugh Smith�s Bond of Conveyance. I will and Bequeath her all the right and benefit of said Land and Bond during her widowhood but provided She Should Mary the Said Land & Bond to become the property of my son Lawson Gorrell to him his Heirs & assigners but for wants of issue in my son Lawson to return to & become the property of my wife Mary provided she should survive my son Lawson to her and the Heirs of her body forever but want of issue in my wife Mary to sale? To and become the property of my sister Hannah and my sister Easter, daughter Elizabeth Thornton (or Harnton) to them and their heirs forever to be equally divided between them and I further make constute & xxxxx? My loving wife Mary Gorrell and John Cooley Executors & administrators of this my will & Testament in witness hereof I Joseph Gorrell have set my hand & Seal the Day & Year above written.
Signed Sealed & Delivered by the testator Joseph Gorrell - Seal
As & for his last will aand testament
In the preseasants of us who warwe present
At the Sighning & Sealing Thareof
John Hardy Joseph Ewing John Ewing Harford county xx on the third day of June 1793 came John Cooley one of my Executors In & by the foregoing named & appointed and renounced his right of Executorship & refused to take upon him the trouble thereof & resigned his right therto� Harford County xxx June 3 1793 then came John Hardy & John Ewing two of the subscribing witnesses to the forgoing last will and testament of Joseph Gorrell late of Harford County deceased and made oath on the Holy Evangels of Almighty that they saw Joseph Gorrell the Testator therein named Sign and Seal the aforegoing Instrument of writing & that they heard him publish pronounce & Declare the same to be his last will & Testament and that he was at the time of his doing so to the best of their apprehesitions? of Sound and Disposing mind, memory and understanding and that they subscribe their names as witnesses to this last will and in their presence and at the request of the Testator and in the presence of each other and in the presence of Joseph Ewing who subscribed his name as a witness at the same time�. May the 10th, 1803 the Defect for xxxx of the Signature of the late Register to the probat of the will of Joseph Gorrell was this day cured in Court agreeably to an act of Assembly passed Nov Sessions 1800s Abrm Jarrett �title Note: Smith�s Mistake was the name of the land owned by Thomas Smith given to the resurvey of Cordwood Grove. The property was then passed on to his oldest son Hugh Smith
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