Wills: William Iiams, 1824: Allegany County, MD

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    In the name of God Amen.  I William Iiams of Alegany County and State of 
Maryland being in perfect helth of body and of sound and disposing mind 
memory and understanding considering the certainty of death and uncertainty 
of the time thereof and being desirous to settle 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 form following.
    That is to say - first and principally I commit my soul into the hands of 
almightly god and my body to the earth to be decently buried at the 
discretion of my executors hereafter named.  I devise and bequeath as 
follows: 
Item 1  I do hereby constitute and appoint my eldest son Amos and Jesse my 
youngest son as joint heirs and executors of all my real and personal estate 
except that track of land which I bought of Thomas Boein-----
Item 2  I give and devise to my oldest and youngest sons Amos and Jesse the 
plantation or farm on which I now live containing one track of land called 
Williams farm containing two hundred and forty six acres and one quarter of 
an acre and one called Addition toWilliams farm containing 200 1/2 of an acre 
and one track called Partnership containing 60 acres, thirty of its mine & 
thirty (S)? Danisons all which joins each other in the county and state 
aforesaid and one track which I bought of Thomas Moghon lying on town creek 
in Bedford County, Pennsylvania them their heirs and assigns - - - - -
Item 3  I give and devise to my second son William my land on which he now 
lives lying in Bedford County and state of Pennsylvania to him the said 
William his heirs and assigns.
Item 4  Amos and Jesse shall pay Mary Gorden eighty Dollars it being a 
ballance due her or her heirs of her legacy.
    Lastly I do hereby constitute and appoint my two sons Amos and Jesse as 
joint heirs of my personal property and what they shall pay my daughter 
Rachel or her heirs the sum of one hundred and thirty dollars and Rebecca or 
her heirs the sum of one hundred and thirty dollars and they shall appoint 
too appraisers that are uninterested to appraise the property and Mary, 
Rachel and Rebecca should take property at the appraisement or take ___due 
notes to the amount of half there dowry and I do certify that Isbel Sloan 
shall have free liberty on my place as usual in and to both the dwelling 
house & C   house both her and her children for the term of three months 
after my death and she Isbel Sloa ,Amos and Jesse shall give in all my 
personal property to the best of their knowledge except what the appraisers 
shall ____ sufficient of both meat and bread for the term of three months for 
the said Isbel and her two children ratifying and confirming this to be my 
last will and testament .
 W Iiams  (his seal) signed sealed and declared by W. Iiams.
The above named testator as and for his last will and testament in the 
presence of us 
Who at his request in his prsence and the presence of each other) have 
subscribed our names as witnesses thereto this twenty second day of June in 
the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four.

Moses G. Robinett
Isaac Sloan

There is no occation or need of any Legal administration . . . . (rest of 
will unreadable)