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Iiams wills - Anne Arundel Co, MD

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Iiams wills - Anne Arundel Co, MD

Posted: 18 Jun 2002 7:26AM GMT
Classification: Will
Edited: 7 Jan 2005 7:26AM GMT
Surnames: Iiams, Gassaway, Reed, Turnor, Plummer, Cheney, Dulaney, Williams, Nicholson, Welsh
I went to the MD State Archives last week while visiting my sister in Edgewater. I ordered several wills to be copied and thought it may be a few weeks - bur returned home yesterday to find they already arrived! Here are two for two different William IIAMS...more ot come for IIAMS and DRURY:

Will of William Iiams, written 25 Jul 1774, proved 10 Aug 1774, Anne Arundel County, Maryland:

[It never fails that I have difficulty with some of the handwriting! there are two names as well as what appears to be a manufacturer's or maker's name for his furniture all starting with a letter combination that is throwing me off. In all cases, the writing appears to be a capitalized script "S" followed by a lower case script "s."]

In the name of God amen I William Iiams of Ann Arundel County being weak of body but of sound mind and memory think it proper at this time to adjust my worldly affairs and to make my last Will and Testament which I do in manner and form following --

Item I give and bequeath to my dear mother the room she now lives in during her life --

Item I give and bequeath to my dear mother and my sister Sarah my ball mare one Cow and calf six barrels of Corn three hundred weight of meat and six bushels of wheat --

Item I desire my Executor hereafter mentioned to make Sale of all my Land to the West side of the main road that runs through the pasture beginning at 200 degrees Gassaway Landing's gate and running with the road out at the other gate untill a parrelel line will strike the South east line. The money arising from the Sale thereof to pay my just debts and should that not be a sufficiency then my Desire is that my Executor do make sale of my Stork (?) Ssanschdo (?) furniture or prop as he shall think best --

Item I do hereby Constitute and Appoint my cousin William Iiams son of John and Rebecca Iiams Executor of this my Last Will and Testament and I do also hereby give and bequeath unto my said cousin and his heirs forever all the rest residue and remainder of my Estate real and personall and of what nature and kind xxxxx? it be and do also in the strongest terms Constitute him residuary Legatee and heir to all the remainder of my Estate both real and personall In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal this twenty fifth July Seventeen hundred and seventy four.

Wm. Iiams (seal)

Witnesst Signed Sealed published \
and declared this to be my last > Will and Testament in presence of /

William Reed
Thos. & Sson. Ssall
Thomas (x) Turnor
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Will of William Iiams, written 28 Jun 1734, proved 17 May 1736, Anne Arundel Co., MD:

In the name of God Amen I William Iiams of Ann Arundell County in the Province of Maryland Planter being of perfect mind and memory & calling to mind the mortality of my Body knowing tis appointed for all men to Die Do make Constitute & ordain this my last Will and Testament in the following manner & form.

Imprimus I bequeath my Soul into the hands of God that Gave it me, and my Body to the Earth to be buried in a Christian like & Decent manner at the Discretion of my Executors hereafter named and touching such worldly Goods as it hath pleased God to Bestow upon me, after my just debts being paid, I Give, Divise & Dispose of them as following --

I give & bequeath to my Beloved Wife Elizabeth Iiams during her natural life, all my personal Estate whatsoever except the following Legacies Provided my said Wife lives Single & remains unmarried, But in case she thinks proper to marry again, then I Bequeath all the Personal Estate aforesaid (Except as before Excepted) to be equally divided (immediately after such Marriage) Between my Son John Iiams and my Son Plummer Iiams & my Daughter Ann Iiams--

Item I Give & Bequeath to my Son William Iiams & his Heirs for ever a certain Tract or parcell of Land called Cheney's Resolution Containing One Hundred Acres Lying in Ann Arundel County aforesaid, Also the sum of five Shillings current money.

Item I Give & Bequeath to my Sons Richard & Thomas, also to my Daughters Elizabeth, Mary & Charity each of them the sum of five Shillings current money aforesaid.

Item I Give & Bequeath unto my Son John Iiams & his Heirs for ever after his mother's Decease a certain Tract or parcell of Land lying in Ann Arundel County called Bridge hill Containing One Hundred Acres being the greater part of my dwelling Plantation and if my Son John die without Issue Lawfully begotten of his Body Then I Bequeath the aforesaid Land called Bridge Hill to my Son Plummer & his Heirs for ever And further if my son Plummer die without lawfull Heirs begotten of his Body Then I Give & Bequeath the aforesaid Land unto my Son Thomas & his Heirs for ever.

Item I Give & Bequeath unto my Son Plummer & his Heirs for ever (after his mother Decease) a certain parcell of Land adjoining to Bridge Hill aforesaid Containing Sixty four Acres called Doden lying in Ann Arundell County aforesaid Now if my son Plummer die without Heirs lawfully begotten of his Body Then I Give the said parcell of Land called Doden to my Son John Iiams & his Heirs foe ever And if my Son John die without Heirs lawfully begotten of his body Then I Give the said Land unto my Son Thomas & his Heirs for ever.

Item I Give & Bequeath to my Daughter Ann one Negro girl named Bean & her Increase And in case my Daughter Ann die without lawfull Heirs Then I Give the said Negro Girl & her Increase to my Son John Iiams aforesaid.

Item Lastly I Constitute & ordain my Sons Thomas & John Executors of this my last Will & Testament & I do utterly Disallow Revoke & Disanull all & every other former Testaments Wills Legacies Executors by me in any wise named Willed & Bequeathed Ratifying this and no other to be my last Will & Testament In Witness whereof I have hereunto Sett my hand & Seal this Twenty eight day of June Anno Dom. 1734-- William Iiams (seal)

Sign'd Seal'd Publish'd Prnounc'd & Declar'd
to be the last Will & Testament of the said William
Iiams In Presence of us--

Richard Williams
Richard Welsh
John Nicholson, junr.
Richard Williams, junr.

On the back of the aforegoing Will was thus written Viz --

May 17: 1736. Richard Williams John Nicholson, junr. & Richard Williams junr being duly Sworn Severally depose & Swear That they saw the Testator William Iiams Sign & Seal the foregoing Instrument & heard him Publish & Declare the same to be his last Will & Testament that at the time of his so doing he was to the best of their Judgement of sound & disposing mind & memory And that they Severally Subscribed their names to the said Will in the Presence of the Testator as Witnesses.
Sworn to before me D. Dulaney, Comry.
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