Thomas Stewart - Will - (1835) |
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Anne Arundel County Register of Wills |
| Will of Thomas Stewart, Anne Arundel
County, Maryland, Register of Wills Book In the name of God Amen, I Thomas Stewart of Anne Arundel County in the State of Maryland being sick and weak in body but of sound, disposing mind, memory and understanding considering the certainly of death and the 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 home, 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 body to the earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my executors hereinafter named and after all my lawful debts are paid and my wife's third taken out I will and bequeath as follows: It is my will that all my property both real and personal shall be equally divided amongst all my children either by division or sale at the discretion of my executor and the principal cause of making this will is because I wish my two oldest sons to settle my estate. Therefore I do constitute and appoint my two sons Ebenezer Stewart and Joseph B. Stewart, the sole executors of this my last will and testament revoking and annulling all former wills by me heretofore made 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 by seal this second day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty five. Signed, sealed, published and declared by Thomas Stewart the above named testator as his last will and testament in presence of us who at his request in his presence and in the presence of their other have subscribed our names as witnesses thereof. Witnessed by: John G. Cromwell, Randolph S. Cromwell, and Thomas Hawkins. |