The will of Kinsey Harrison, son of William Harrison, was transcribed by Cathy Gowdy from Anne Arundel County, Maryland, Will Book 40, page 224, dated 21 February 1833.
LDS film #13244
Anne Arundel Co., MD
Will Book 40, page 224
"In the name of God Amen, I Kinsey Harrison of Anne Arundel County in the State of Maryland being weak in boddy [sic] but of sound and disposing mind memory and understanding considering the certainty of death and uncertainty of the time thereof and being desirous to settle my worldly affairs and thereby be the better prepared to leave this world when it shall please God to call me hence, do therefore make and publish this my last Will and Testament in manner and form following that is to say, First and principally I commit my soul into the hands of Almighty God and my boddy [sic] to the Earth to be decently buried at the discretion of Executrix hereinafter named and after my debts and funeral Expences [sic] are paid I devise and bequeath as follows. Item I give and bequeath all personal estate to my beloved Wife Sarah Harrison. Item, I give and devise all my real Estate to my beloved wife whereon I now reside containing twenty three acres of land more or less.
Item I give and bequeath to my son Grove Harrison one dollar.
Item I give and bequeath to my son Kinsey Harrison one dollar.
It I give and bequeath to my son Wesley Harrison one dollar.
It I give and bequeath to my son Nimrod Harrison one dollar.
It I give and bequeath to my daughter Polly Harrison one dollar.
It I give and bequeath to my daughter Cordelia Clarey one dollar.
It I give and bequeath to my daughter Amelia Shunk one dollar.
It I give and bequeath
to my daughter Matilda Ritchie one dollar, all of the aforesaid
bequests to be paid by my Executrix
out of my personal Estate. And Lastly I do hereby constitute and appoint
my dear wife Sarah Harrison to be my sole Executrix of this my last Will
and testament revoking all others by me made heretofore ratifying and confirming
this and none other to be my last Will and testament. In Testimony whereof
I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this Twenty first day of
February in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and thirty three…
his
Kinsey Harrison the before named testator As and for his last Will and testament in the presence of us who at his request in his presence and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as Witnesses thereto…
George W. Wolfe)
Warfield Todd)
Anne Arundel County Seld The 18th day of July 1835
Henry Bussard) Then came George W. Wolfe and Henry Bussard two of the subscribing witnesses to the foregoing last Will and Testament of Kinsey Harrison late of Anne Arundel County, deceased, and made oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God that they did see the Testator therein named sign and seal this Will and that they heard him publish, pronounce and declare the same to be his last Will and testament, that at the time of his so doing he was to the best of their apprehensions of sound and disposing mind, memory and understanding and that they together with Warfield Todd the other subscribing Witness respectively subscribed their names as Witnesses to this Will in the presence and at the request of testator and all in the presence of each other.
Saml. Brown Jun. Reg. Wills, A. A. County
Anne Arundel County Scld)
The 18th day of July
1835)
Then came Sarah Harrison and made Oath in the Holy Evangely of Almighty God, that the aforegoing Instrument of writing is the true, whole and last Will and Testament of Kinsey Harrison late of Anne Arundel County, deceased, that hath come to her hands and possession and that she doth not know of any other….
Saml. Brown Jun. Reg. Wills, A. A. County"
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