Will of John FITZPATRICK (1886), Allegany County, MD

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LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT
JOHN FITZPATRICK, 1886

Transcribed by Patti McDonald

In the name of God, Amen I, John Fitzpatrick of Allegany County State of 
Maryland, being in perfect health of body, And of sound and disposing mind, 
memory and understanding considering the certainty of death and the uncertainty 
of the time thereof, and being desirous to settle up my worldly affairs, and 
thereby be the better prepared to leave this world when it shall please God, to 
call me hence, do therefore make and publish this my last Will and Testament in 
manner and from 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 executor herein-
after named, after my debts and funeral charges are paid, I devise and bequeath 
as follows: 

I give and devise unto Thomas Fitzpatrick my son, all my Real Estate in Allegany 
County Maryland consisting of three lots of ground in the town of Moscow in the 
County and state of aforesaid, and known as lots, numbered Eighty one, Eighty 
two, and Eighty three, with the improvements thereon.  The same was conveyed to 
the said John Fitzpatrick by A B Shaw, and Mary M Shaw, his wife by Deed dated 
September Sixteenth AD 1885, for which deed reference is hereby made for more 
minute particulars.

And lastly, I do hereby constitute and appoint my son Thomas to sole executor 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 hereto set my hand and seal this Twenty third day of 
January Anno Domino One Thousand Eight hundred and eighty six.

John Fitzpatrick  X his mark

Signed, sealed, published and declared by the above named John Fitzpatrick as 
and for his last will and testament, in our presence, who, at his request, in 
his presence, and in presence of each other, have hereto set our hands as 
witnesses thereto.
Cornelius S Murphy
Thomas Ford
Henry Hepburn


LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT
OF JOHN FITZPATRICK
DECEASED

Filed for probate and record this 16” day of March 1889.

The miter will was sworn to as to custody by Thomas Fitzpatrick the executor 
therein named and was sworn by C S Murphy and Henry Hepburn two of the 
subscribing witnesses thereto and was exhibited for probate and record and no 
objections thereto having been filed on any ca? entered the said will was this 
19th day of March 1889 admitted to probate and record.

A H Dowden, REgr