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The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. *********************************************************************** Last Will and Testament of John Hosea (Senior) dated 18 September 1792; proved 23 April 1796 in Sussex,Delaware In the name of God, Amen, the Eighteenth day of September in the year of our Lord One Thousand seven hundred and ninety two, I, John Hosea of Sussex County and State of Delaware being in reasonably good health and of perfect mind and memory, thanks be to God, therefore calling to mind the mortality of my body, and knowing that it is appointed to all men once to die do make and ordain this my Last Will and Testament, that is to say, principally and first of all I give and recommend my Soul into the hands of Almighty God and my body I recommend to the Earth to be buried in decent Christian manner at the discretion of my Executors, nothing doubting but at the General Resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mighty power of God, and as touching such Worldly Estate wherewith it hath been pleased God to bless me with in this life, I give, demise and dispose of the same in the following manner, viz: First I give and bequeath unto my Grandson MATTHEW HOSEA*, one hundred acres of land, lying and being in County of Sussex and known by the name of New Dublin and all the Warrant land that I hold on the North side of a small stream running through the aforesaid tract of land, all to him, his heirs and assigns. Item: I give and bequeath unto my Grandson THOMAS HOSEA** all the remainder of one tract of Land called Snow Hill, all except that part that I sold to WILLIAM KIRKPATRICK and that which is my dwelling plantation, then all the remainder to him and his heirs and assigns forever. Item: I give and bequeath unto my Grandson JOHN HOSEA (son of John) all the remaining part of my Warrant land that is not sold to William Kirkpatrick nor willed to Mathew Hosea. Item: I give and bequeath unto my well loved wife MARY HOSEA, my dwelling plantation where I now live on, and all my moveable estate, during her natural life and widowhood and afterwards this fifty acres of land where I now live I give and bequeath unto my grandson JOHN CALLOWAY, with all the privileges and benefits thereunto belonging with my housing plantation to him and his heirs and assigns for ever. Item: I give and bequeath unto each of my grandchildren except JONATHAN HOSEA and those that have land willed to them by me, then all the others to have five pounds apiece, to be levied and raised out of my Estate, and then this money to be delivered after my Wife's death, or marriage if so much there be, and the remainderfor her to give to her child or grandchildren as she may think best. Also I appoint John Williams and my Wife, Mary, joint executors of this my Last Will and Testament, ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my Last Will and Testament, and I do hereby utterly disavow, disallow and revoke all other former Wills, Legacies and bequests by me heretofore made. In witness whereof I have hereeunto set my hand and seal the day and year above written. Signed, Sealed, Published and pronounced by the said John Hosea as his Last Will and Testament in the presence of James BEVINS William C. (his X mark) KIRKPATRICK William (his X mark) CAHOON John Hosea (his seal) SUSSEX COUNTY MEMORANDUM the 23rd day of April 1796, before me, Phillips Hollcok, Register appointed for the Probate of Wills and granting Letters of Administration for the County aforesaid, appeared William KIRKPATRICK and William CAHOON, two of the Witnesses to the within Will, who being duly sworn on the Holy Evangels of Almighty God, did severally depose and say that in their sight, presence and hearing the Testator, John Hosea, did Sign, Seal, Publish and declare the same to be his Last Will and Testament, and that at the doing thereof he was of a sound and perfect mind, memory, and Judgement, and that they and each of them together with James BEVINS, subscribed the same as Witnesses in the presence of the Testator and at his request. Phillips Kollock, Register