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Elizabeth Wharton Coomes's Will:
IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN.
I, Elizabeth Coomes of Charles County, widow, being of sound
& perfect memory, thanks be to Almighty for the same,
do make & ordain this my Last Will & Testament,
in manner & form following, Viz:
Imprimis: I give & bequeath to my two sons, vix, Thomas
Wharton Coomes and Walter Coomes, all that tract of parcel
of land lying, situate and being in Charles County, Nangemy,
and known by the name of Christian Milford, containing three
hundred & forty nine acres more or less, & farther
the said Thomas Wharton and Walter Coomes shall pay to the
rest of my Children as follows: vix: Thos. Wharton Coomes
shall pay unto my two sons Joseph and William Coomes, Thirty
pounds. Cur'y to each, and Walter Coomes shall pay to my
three Daughters, Viz: Mary Ann Hamilton, & Anastasia
Hamilton, twenty pounds cur'y, to each of them, there being
twelve months granted by me to the said Thos. Wharton &
Walter Coomes for the payment of the above sums of money,
and after the above sums of money be taken out of the value
of the above land together with all costs and charges that
the above Thomas Wharton & Walter Coomes shall be at
in laying off, selling or dividing the said Land, then my
other son Francis Ignatius Coomes, if living, shall share
equally with Thos. Wharton & Walter Coomes what clear
money shall remain in the value of said land, but if the
said Francis Ignatius Coomes shall be deceased before the
above payments be made, then his heirs shall receive of
the sd. Thos. Wharton & Walter Coomes the sum of Thirty
pounds, cor'y and no more. And I do hereby nominate and
appoint my two sons Thos. Wharton & Walter Coomes sole
Executors of this my Last Will & Testament.
In Witness whereof I have set my hand seal this 15th day
of Jan'y, Anno Domini, 1771.
Test: Wm Coomes, Sr, William
Coomes Jr, James Slater X [mark and seal of Elizabeth Coomes]
On the back of the foregoing will was endorsed the following
Probate, To Wit;
Charles County, Sct. On this sixtenneth day of November,
came William Coomes Jr and James Slater, subscribing witnesses
to the within Will and made oath that they saw Elizabeth
Coomes the Testatrix sign the same and heard her acknowledge
it to be her Last Will and Testament, that at the time of
her so doing she was to the best of their apprehensions
of sound & disposing mind & memory and that they
together with William Coomes, Sr signed their names as witnesses
to the said Will in the presence of the Testatrix &
at her request. --which said probate was taken after having
received a letter from Thomas Wharton Coomes, heir at law,
consenting to the taking the same.
Walter Hanson
D.COM'R.
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