Thomas Tredway of Maryland Treadway Wills
Edward Wakeman Will
09 Dec 1753
Donated by Jared Treadway
Baltimore Co., Maryland
In the name of God, Amen. The Ninth Day of December in ye year of our Lord God 1753. I, Edward Wakeman of Baltimore County in the Province of Maryland, Chiefsurgeon, being sick and weak in body but of perfect mind and memory thanks be to God for the same, calling to mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament, that is to say principally and first of all I give and recommend my soul into the hands of God that gave it and for my body I recommend it to the Earth to be buried in a Christian like and decent manner at the discretion of my Executor nothing doubt my but at the general resurrection I shall receive the same 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 form.
Viz. imprimis, I give and bequeath to my beloved daughter Elizabeth a negro girl named Dinah to her and her heirs for ever.
Item: I give and bequeath to my daughter Mary a nego girl named Hannah to her and her heirs for ever.
Item: I give and bequeath to my daughter Elizabeth my plantation in the forrest contents 125 acres called Halls Plains whereon Obediah Prichard foremerly lived to her and her heirs for ever.
Item: I give and bequeath to my daughter Sarah the plantation whereon I now live called and known by the name of Addition, to her and her heirs for ever.
Item: I give and bequeath to my daughter Mary as I have no lands to bequeath to her thirty pounds sterling to be levied out of my Estate for the use of her and her heirs for ever.
Item: I give and bequeath to my daughter Elizabeth a negro fellow Primus to her and her heirs for ever.
Item: I give and bequeath to my daughter Sarah a negro woman named Fortune, mulatto child named Tony as also the increase of the said Fortunes body to her and her heirs for ever.
Item: It is my desire and earnest request that Mrs. Avarilla Hall should keep, maintain, educate and bring up my three daughters till they come to years of maturaty and also take my two old negro fellows Cuto and Tom having two honest indifferent men to set an estamation on their yearly wages which I desire may be appropriated to help to maintain and educate my three children and provided Mrs Avarilla Hall should die before my daughters come to years of maturity then my will is that my duaghters should be under the care of my Executor and at his disposal with regard to their maintenance and education.
Item: I will and bequeath to my son in law or stepson James Prichard twenty pounds current money of Maryland to be levied out of my Estate and to be paid to him by my Executor when he arrives to the age of twenty one years to him and his heirs for ever.
Item: I desire that my Executor dispose of a parcel of dry goods that are at present in my house to the best advantage and return the amount therof to the appraisers and likewise do the same with a parcel morethat are to come in next spring.
Item: My will is that my medicine, instruments, books, cattles, horses and hogs and all my moveable chattels whatsoever and of what kind never be sold by my Executor for current money and to be equally divided among my three daughrters when they come to the years of maturity to them and their heirs for ever.
Item: I will and desire that all the bonds, bills, notes of hand and back debts which are at present in my house especially the book debts be got into money and all of them be kept out at interest to help to maintain and educate my three daughters and the interest of the same to be appropriated to that use only at the discretion of my Executor so that the principal may be as little diminished as my Executor can help and the whole to be equally divided among my three daughters when they come to years of maturity to them and their heirs for ever, together with all the ready cash I now have in the house of what specie soever never to be let to interest and disposed of as affsaid.
Item: I will and bequeath to Thomas Tredway one gold ring of twenty shillings sterling price as a legacy to him and his heirs for ever.
Item: I will and bequeath to John Atkinson one gold ring of twenty shillings sterling price as a legacy to him and his for ever.
Lastly I constitute and appoint my beloved neighbor friend Mr. John Hall of Cranberry my sole Executor of this my last will and testament and I do hereby utterly disallow revoke and disannul all and any other former testaments, wills and legacies and Executors by me in any wise before me named, willed, and bequeathed ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last will and testament in witness whereof
I have herunto set my hand and seal the day and year above written on the other side of this leaf.
Item my will and desire is that my Executor of this my last will should convey to Mr. Aquila Hall sixy acres of land named Weswood by and with a general warantee as though I did the same myself.
Edward Wakeman {Seal}
Signed Sealed Published and Declared by Edward Wakeman in presence of:
Andrew Lendrum
Aquila Hall
James Stewart
Pak Hall
Memorandum the words and disposed of as afforesaid at the end of the twelfth interlined before signing and sealing. Dec. 27th, 1753, caused the Rev. Andrew Lendrum, Aquilla Hall and James Stewart three of the subscribing witnesses to the foregoing will and being duly and solemnly sworn on the holy evangelist of almighty God depose and say that they and each of them saw the testator Edward Wakeman sign the foregoing will and at the time of this undoing he was to the best of their apprehensions of sound and dispoing mind and memory and that they and each of them heard him publish and declare the same to be his last will and testament and that they suscribed their respective names in the presence of the testator and at his request sworne before.
William Young, D Commissary, Baltimore County