Allegany County MD Archives Wills.....Thomas REID, September 17, 1818 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/md/mdfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Jack Reid jamarei@bellsouth.net September 16, 2010, 12:50 pm Source: Allegany County Court House, Cumberland, Md Written: September 17, 1818 In the name of God, Amen. I Thomas Reid of Allegany County and State of Maryland being sick and weak of body but of sound and disposing mind memory and understanding and considering the certainty of death and the uncertainty of the timing thereof do hereby make this my last will and testament. First and pricipally I commit my soul into the hands of Almighty God who gave it, and my body to the Earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my Executor, hereafter named and as to the worldly property which it has pleased Almighty God to bless me with, I give and devise the same as follows to wit. Them i give and bequeath to my Dear and loving wife Mary Reid after my just debts and funeral charges are paid all my Estate both real and personal or meant (sic) to be disposed of by her for her and my children's support as she may think fit during her natural life, and at her decease whatever may be remaining I direct may be equally divided amongst my children, and I do hereby constitute and appoint my much esteemed friend George Hoffman the sole and whole executor of this my last will and testament, hereby revoking all others by me made. In witness thereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal this 17th day of September 1818 Signed sealed acknowledged in the presence of us who have subscribed our names as witness thereto at the request Thos. Reid In the presence of the testatory Tho. Pollard Elnathon (sic) Russell This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mdfiles/ File size: 2.0 Kb This file is located at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/md/allegany/wills/reid-t.txt