Allegany County MD Archives Court..... Moses GREENWADE, September 27, 1850
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Source: Allegany County Court Record, Cumberland, Maryland
Written: September 27, 1850

1850 September 27: The following court order was issued.

THE STATE OF MARYLAND
"To Moses Rawlings and Daniel Cresap Greetings"
"This is to authorize you justly to appraise the goods, chattles, and the
personal estate of, Moses Greenwade, Late of Allegany County, deceased, so far
as they shall come to your sight and knowledge---each of you first having taken
the oath or affirmation hereto annexed, a certificate whereof you are to return,
annexed to an inventory of the said goods, chattles, and personal estate, by you
appraised, in dollars and cents---and, in the said inventory, you are to set
down in a column or columns, opposite to each article, the value thereof."

Witness, John Hays, Esq., Chief Judge of the Orphans court of Allegany County,
this 27th. day of September in the year Eighteen Hundred and Fifty.
 
Test---W. Rell Culley (sp.)

Register of Wills Allegany County

"We Moses Rawlings and Daniel Cresap do swear that we will, well and truly,
without partiality or prejudice , value and appraise the goods, Chattles, and
personal estate of Moses Greenwade deceased, so far as the same shall come to
our sight and knowledge, and will in all respects perform our duty as
appraisers, to the best of our skill and judgement, so help us God."

Signed                   Moses Rawlings
John Welch               Daniel Cresap      Appraisers

Sworn and Subscribed before,     John Welch

Additional Comments:
Moses Greenwade had left no will and the courts decided the distribution of his
properties among his children. He owned about 1400 acres in Allegany County, MD
and about 1400 acres in then Hampshire County, VA. He died between June and
September of 1850.

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