ENOCH HOUSE WILL - Allegany Co. MD  Will #A708

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ENOCH HOUSE WILL - Allegany Co. MD  Will #A708
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IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN:  I,  Enoch House of Allegany County 
in the State of Maryland being sick and weak in body but of sound disposing 
mind in memory and understanding considering the certainty of death and the 
uncertainty of the time thereof,  And being desirous to settle my worldly 
affairs and be thereby 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 form 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 
hereinafter named and after my debts and funeral charges are paid I devise and
bequeath as follows:

Item - I give and bequeath unto my Grand daughter, Mary House the sum of 
one hundred Dollars to be paid by my Executors hereinafter named.

Item - I give and bequeath unto my Grand daughter, Maria House the sum of
one hundred Dollars to be paid by my Executors hereinafter named.

Item - I give and devise unto my daughter in law Dorcas House, wife of my 
deceased son, Allan house the farm on which I now live called High Germany
together with all my other real and personal estate of which I am possessed
to be held by her during her natural life or so long as she may retain the name of 
Dorcas House and at her death to descend to my Grandson, James A. House, 
the son of the said Dorcas House to be held by him the said James A. House,
his heirs and assigns forever.

But if Dorcas House should marry thereby changing her name then -- All my 
property Real and Personal shall be taken possession of by my Executor 
hereinafter named to be held by him in trust and for the benefit of my Grandson
James A. House until he attains the age of twenty one years when he shall then be
the sole and absolute owner of All my real and personal estate aforesaid.

And lastly I do hereby constitute and appoint Moses G. Robinett sole Executor
of this my last will and testament revoking and annulling all former wills by me 
heretofore made ratifying and confirm this and none other to be my last will and
testament.   In Testimony in hereof  I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my
seal this ninth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand and eight hundred
and forty nine.

Signed sealed published and 
declared by Enoch House the                     Enoch House       seal
above named testator as and 
for his last will and testament in the presence of us who at his request in his presence
and in the presence of each other have subscribed our Names as Witnesses thereto,
David McElfish, Lawrence Wilson, William House.  

STATE OF MARYLAND, Allegany County to Wit -   On this 26th day of June 
1849 came Moses G. Robinett Executor therein named and made oath on the Holy
Evangely of Almighty God that the foregoing instrument of writing is the true whole 
will and testament of Enoch House,  late of Allegany deceased that has come to his 
hands and possession and that he does not know of any other.
                                                                Test - W.R. McCulley, Register
                                                              
STATE OF MARYLAND, Allegany County to Wit -  On this 26th day of June
1849 came David McElfish, Lawrence Wilson and William House the subscribing
witnesses to the foregoing last will and testament of Enoch House late of Allegany
County deceased and made oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God that they
did see Enoch House the testator therein named sign and seal this will that they
heard him publish pronounce and declare the same to be his last will and testament
that at the time of his so doing he was to the best of their apprehension of sound
and disposing mind memory and understanding and that they respectively subscribed
their Names as Witnesses to said will in the presence and at the request of the
testator and in the presence of each other.
                                                                Test - W.R. McCulley, Register