Location: Talbot, Maryland, United States
Surname/tag: Booker
Transcription of Will of Thomas Booker Maryland, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1777 on ancestry.com
To all Christian People to whom these presents Shall Come Greeting know you That I Thomas Booker of Tredhaven Creek In Talbott County In Maryland being Sick and weak in body but of perfect memory blessed be the Lord for it Doo make ordaine and Constitute this my Last Will and Testament, Revocking all other Will or Wills whether by word or writeing at any time or times heretofor made or done by me and that this Only shall be taken for my last Will and Testament, to be Executed and performed by my ExEs hereafter named committing my Soule to God that Gave it and my body to be secretly Burryed in freinds burying place belonging to the meeting house at the place called Bettys Cove (?) And as to my Outward Estate both Reall & Personall which the Lord hath been pleased to bestow upon me I Dispose of as followeth. Item – After all my are paid I give & bequeath unto my Eldest Son Thomas Booker all that Tract or Parcell of Land which he now lives on being In Estimation two hundred acres Called Dutch Creek it being part of Tilmans Fortune to him & his heirs for Ever. Item – I Give & Bequeath unto my Son Robert Booker all that Tract or parcell of Land Called Bennetts Neck being in Quantity fifty Acres being part of Tilmans Fortune also and adjoining to his brother Thomases land to him & his heirs for Ever Item – I Give & Bequeath unto my Son John Booker all That Tract or parcell of land I now live on being in quantity One hundred & fifty acres being part of Tilmans Fortune and adjoining to his Brother Thomases Land also to him & his heirs for Ever Item – my Will is that if any of my Sons Shall happin to Dye without Heirs that his part shall be Equally Divided between the Surviving sons, and if two happen to Dye without Heirs then the Land to go to the Surviving Son But if they all happen to Dye without Heirs then my Lands to be Equally Divided between or amongst the Surviving Daughters Item – my Will is that my wife Mary Booker shall have a sufficient maintenance upon the plantation I now live on by my two Sons Thomas Booker & John Booker they being ? & dutiful to theire Mother and She to have the following(?) ? during her Naturall life if she is Unmarryed but if it Should So happen that she Shall marry That then my Will is that Nothing Shall be taken of the plantation but what is her Own, Item – my will is that when my personall estate is praised and my wife hath her thirds out that then the remaining part be Equally Divided amongst my Children viz my three Sons aforenamed, and my Will is That my afsd 3 sons Out of the Remaining ? of my personal estate after my wifes third is taken out that then my 3 sons shall pay unto my 4 Daughters, Elizabeth, Mary, Abigall and Sarah Booker Each of them Two thousand pounds of tobacco in full Satisfaction for their part of my personal estate, and my Daughters to have the tobacco paid to them theire heirs or assigns in two years time after my doesase Item – I Doo Constitute and Ordaine my wife & two Sons Thomas & John Exx and ExErs of this my last Will and Testament, and further I appoint my Son In law Joseph Rogers and Wiliam Dixon of Michaells River to be over seers and assistants to my wife & two sons and if any thing or things shall or doo fall on that my Executors Logatees or overseers Cannot Joyntly Agree in that then such thing or things be layd before mens meeting of freinds to be discided and orded? by some friends made ? of by the Meeting and theire Judgement to Stand and be as Effectuall and Authantic as Determined by the Law, And to the true Intent purpose and meaning of all & Singu? the clauses herein mentioned I put to my hand and fix my seale this 10th day of March 1695/6—Tho: T B Booker Before Signing & Sealing I: his marke Will appoint my Son Robert— To be at age when he shall arrive at the age of 19: years and to be Dutiful to his Mother both before and after.
Testia Christopher:SS Spry His mark Richard R(reversed) Sanders And on the back Side of the His marke aforegoing Will was Endorsed John S(reversed) Stoall Thus -- his marke January 19 1696-- Mary M Spray Her marke
The within Written ExEs Carised(?) the within written Will & Testament, of theire Testator to be proved by the Oaths of Christopher Spry Richard Sands and Mary Spry the witnesses thereunto Subscribed Coram? me R. Gouldesborough Depty Commissioner
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