Will of Elizabeth Harding

In the Name of God Amen The thirty first day of May in the Year of our Lord 1768 I Elizabeth Harding of Frederick County in the Province of Maryland 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 & knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die is Do make and ordain this my Last Will & Testment. That is to say Rincipal and first of all, I give and recommend my Soul into the Hands of God that gave it and for my Body I recommend to the Earth to be buried in a Christian Like and Decent manner, at the Discretion of my Executors nothing & Doubting but at the General Resurection I shall receive the same again by the mighty power of God. And as touching any Worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to Stop one in

this life I give Devise and Dispose of the same in the following manner and form.

Imprimis It is my Will and I do order, that in the first place all my just Debts and funeral Charges be paid and satisfied.

Item I give and bequeath unto my son Edward Harding one Feather Bed called the great feather Bed and one Worsted Rugg.

Item I give and bequeath unto my son Grove Harding Two pounds current money.

Item I give and bequeath unto my Grandson Gary Harding of my son John Harding Forty Shillings Current Money.

Item I give and bequeath unto my son Charles Harding on sixth part of the remainder of any Estate.

Item I give and bequeath unto my son Elias Harding One sixth part of the remainder of any Estate.

Item I give and bequeath unto my Daughter Usly Holland Wife of Nathan Holland one Sixth part of the remainder of any

Estate and my Wareing Apparall and a patern of Stamp'd Cotton for a Gound which I now have by me not made up.

Item I give and bequeath unto my four Grand Children (Children of Robert Owen and my Daughter Kissiah Owen) one

Sixth part of the remainder of any Estate to be Equally Divided amongst them share and share alike.

Item I give and bequeath unto my unto my Grand Children (sons & Daughters of Robert Lazenberry and my Daughter Lucy

Lazenberry) One Sixth part of the remainder of my Estate to be equally divided amongst them shear and shear alike.

Item I give and bequeath unto my Grand Children (sons & Daughters of Alexander Beall & my Daughter Elizabeth Beall)

One Sixth part of the remainder of any Estate to be equally divided amongst them shear & shear alike.

Item I give and bequeath unto my two sons Charles Harding and Elias Harding one Negro Boy named George as an

Acknowledgement for the Trouble which I have given them both the said Negro Boy George to be equally divided between them

and not reckoned any part of any Estate which I have heretofore bequeathed.

It is further my Will that my two Sons Charles Harding and Elias Harding be jointly my Exectors of this my Last Will &

Testament. And I do hereby utterly disallow revoke and disannul all and every other former Testament Wills Legacies

& Exectors by one in any way before this Time named willed & bequeathed Ratifying and Confirming this and no other to be

my Last Will and Testament. In Witness whereof I have here unto set my hand and Seal is the Day and Year before written.

Signed, Sealed & Acknowledged by the said Elizabeth Harding as her ast Will & Testament in the Elizabeth Harding

presence of Us the Subscribers (Her mark E)

Benj Peny

Tho Cramphin Jr

On the Back of the aforegoing Will was this written Viz!

On the 5th Day of October 1769 came Benjamin Peny and Thomas Cramphin Junior the two Subscribing Witnesses to the

foregoing Wills and made Oath on the Holy Evangals of Almighty God that they did see the Testator Elizabeth

Harding Sign and Seal the said Will and Heard her publish pronounce and declare the same to be her Last Will and

Testament and that at the Time of her so doing she was for the best of their apprehensions of a sound and disposing

mind and memory and that they severally subscribed their names as Witnesses to the said Will in presence of the said

Testator and in the presence of each other.

Sworn before F Bowles DyComry

Buyer, Stier, and Related Families

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