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Garah Davis Will
Frederick County, MD Will Book 1 pg. 210
FHC Film 0014019
In the Name of God Amen The first Day of March one thousand seven hundred &
sixty four. I Garah Davis of Frederick County in the provance [sic] of Maryland
being very sickly & weak in Body but of perfect mind & memory, Thanks be given
to God therefore, Calling to mind the mortality of my Body and knowing that it
is appointed for all Men to die, do make this my Last Will & Testament that is
to say, first of all I recommend my Soul to God my Saviour who first gave it,
and my Body to the Earth to be buried at the Discretion of my Executors nothing
doubting but at the general Resurrection I[,] I shall receive the same again by
the mighty power of God. And as touching my worldly Estate I give and devise as
follows, that is to say.
Item I give & bequeath to my Son Benjamin Davis one Negro Man named George and
one hundred and twenty and five Acres of Land with the plantation he now dwells
in, to be layed off at the Discretion of Nathan Veatch.
Item I give & bequeath to my three Daughters, that is to say Elizabeth, Sarah &
Prissiller [sic] each of them one Cow – Prissiller to have a Calf with her Cow.
Item I give and bequeath to my Daughter Mary one Mare, that is to say the oldest
Mare now on the plantation and two Gounds [sic] & pettycotes [sic] to be
delivered to her in two years by my Son Richard, at his Discussion [sic] that is
to say of what Sort of Stuff he pleases.
Item I give & bequeath to my Son Richard Davis my dwelling Plantation with all
the Lands adjoining (except what I have given to my Son Benjamin as above
mentioned) the same, together with all my movable Estate, & to see that all my
just Debts be paid & see that this my Last Will & Testament be fulfilled in
manner & Form aforementioned, and I do hereby, utterly disallow revoke and
disannull all other Wills, Legacies & Executors by me before named, confirming
this to be my Last Will & Testament in Witness whereof I have hereunto set my
Hand & Seal the Day & Year first above mentioned.
Garah his X mark Davis
Signed & Seald in the presents [sic] of
Wm Spiers
Jacob [Duckett?]
Nathan Veatch
On the 6th Day of April 1764 Came Jacob Duckett & Nathan Veatch two of the
Subscribing Witnesses to the within Will and made oath on the holy Evangelists
of Almighty God that they did see the Testator Garah Davis sign and Seal the
said Will & heard him publish pronounce and declare the same to be his Last Will
and Testament, and that at the time of his so doing he was to the best of their
apprehensions of a sound and disposing Mind & memory & they also did see William
Spiers the other subscribing Witness to the said Will sign his Name as a Witness
thereto, & that they severally subscribed their Names as Witnesses to the said
Will in presence of the said Testator and in presence of each other
Sworn before
Thos. Bowles Depty. Comy. Fredk. Cty.
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