Will of Sarah Rebecca Hardman, Allegany Co, MD 1893

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Will of Sarah Rebecca Hardman
Of Allegany County
Dated June 8, 1893

In the name of God, Amen.
	
	I, Sarah Rebecca Hardman, of Allegany County, 
in the State of Maryland, do hereby make, publish 
and declaire this as and for my last will and 
testament, in manner following, that is to say:

	After the payment of all my just debts and 
funeral expenses, I give, devise and bequeath all 
my property and estate, real and personal, 
wheresoever situated, unto Egbert Willison, his 
heirs and assigns forever, in trust, nevertheless, 
to pay the rents, profits and income thereof, unto 
Sarah Rebecca Hendrickson, my adopted daughter, 
for and during the term of her natural life, and 
from and after her death, to pay over  Five 
Hundred Dollars of the principal of said property 
and estate to the “Preacher’s Fund Society, of 
the City of Baltimore”, and after her said death 
to pay all the rest and residue of said property 
and estate (after the payment of the above 
bequest) to “The Missionary Society of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church”, incorporated by the 
Legislature of the Sate of New York, and the 
receipt of the Treasure thereof, shall be 
sufficient discharge to my Executor for the same.  
And I hereby constitute and appoint the said 
Egbert Willison, the Executor of this my last will 
and testament, hereby revoking all other wills and 
codicils by me heretofore made.

	In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto 
subscribed my name and affixed my seal this 8th 
day of June 1893.

					Sarah Rebecca Hardman  (Seal)

	Signed, sealed, published and declared by 
Sarah Rebecca Hardman, the above named testatrix, 
as and for her last will and testament, in the 
presence of us who at her request in her presence 
and in the presence of each other, have hereunto 
subscribed our names as witnesses.

							David J. Lewis
							Benj. A. Richmond
							D. J. Blackiston

June 8, 1893

State of Maryland
	
	Allegany County to wit:  On the 6th day of 
August 1898 came Egbert B. Willison, the Executor 
named in the aforegoing last will and testament of 
Sarah Rebecca Hardman, late of Allegany County, 
Maryland, deceased and made oath in due form of 
law, that he received the said will from the hands 
of the Register of Wills, with whom it was fixed 
for safe keeping on the 27th day of February 1896 
by the said testatrix.  And the said Egbert B. 
Willison, further made oath athat the aforegoing 
instrument of writing is the true whole last will 
and testament of the said Sarah Rebecca Hardman, 
deceased, that hath come to his hands or 
posession, and that he does not know of any other 
will and testament of the deceased aforesaid.

							Test:  A. H. Dowden

								Register

State of Maryland

	Allegany County to wit:  On the 8th day of 
August 1898 came David J. Lew, Benjamin A. 
Richmond and D. J. Blackiston, the three 
subscribing witnesses to the aforegoing last will 
and testament of Sarah Rebecca Hardman, late of 
Allegany County, Maryland deceased and made oath 
in due form of law that they did see Sarah Rebecca 
Hardman, the testatrix, sign and seal said Will, 
that they heard her publish, pronounce and declare 
the same 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 and disposing mind, 
memory and understanding, capable of executing a 
valid deed or contract, and that they respectively 
subscribed their names as witnesses thereto at the 
request of the testatrix in her presence, and all 
in the presence of each other.

							Test:  A. H. Dowden

								Register

Admitted to probate August 9th 1898