Will of Andrew Rice, Senior  - 1816, Allegany County, Maryland 

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Andrew Rice     
Maryland State Archives Microfilm  W 871-872
Wills - Allegany County, Maryland
Liber A, Folio 154

In the name of God, Amen, I Andrew Rice, Sen, of Allegany County and 
State of Maryland being sick and weak of body but 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 my worldly affairs and thereby 
being 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 unto 
the hands of Almighty God and my body to the earth to be decently buried at the 
discretion of my Executors herein after named and after my death and funeral 
charges are paid I devise and bequeath as follows
And whereas my daughter Anna being an Adult And entirely helpless I therefore 
for the keeping and maintaining the said Anna during her natural life give and 
devise unto my Son Andrew my Plantation wherein I know live, which includes the 
whole of my Real Estate known by the name Gumbers Goodness, containing by patent 
fifty three acres, The Resurvey on Gumbers Goodness containing seventy nine 
acres and two quarters now belonging to me, Kingover? Kindness containing twenty 
three acres and one fourth of an acre the Resurvey on the aforesaid tract 
containing ? in the whole with the originals one hundred and eleven acres by 
certificate called Dalongs Kindness and a tract called Anything containing by 
certificate ten acres.
        I give and bequeath unto my aforesaid son Andrew all my personal estate 
except what is hereafter mentioned.
        I give and bequeath unto every one of the rest of my children one hundred 
dollars, which is to say, son Frederick one hundred dollars, to my son Isaac one 
hundred dollars, to my son Jacob one hundred dollars, to my son William one 
hundred dollars, to my son John one hundred dollars, to my daughter Catherine 
one hundred dollars, to my daughter Rebecca (marked through and replaced with) 
Barbay one hundred dollars, and to my daughter Elizabeth one hundred dollars 
including what ? against them by account which I have already paid therein,
        And lastly I do hereby constitute and appoint my beloved son Andrew to be 
the sole Executor of this my last will and testament.
        In  testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this 
first day of July eighteen hundred and sixteen.
                                                Andrew Rice SR 

Signed Sealed published and declared by Andrew Rice Sen the 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 presence of each other have subscribed our 
names as witnesses thereto

                George Rice
                Frederick Rice of John
                John Valentine of Frederick

Allegany County November 30th 1816
        Then came George Rice, Frederick Rice of John and John Valentine 
of Frederick, the three subscribing witnesses to the within last will and 
testament of Andrew Rice Sen, late of Allegany County, deceased and severally 
made oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God that they did see the testator 
therein named sign and seal this will, and 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 apprehensions of sound and 
disposing mind, memory and understanding, and that they respectively subscribed 
their names as witnesses to this will in the presence and at the request of the 
testator and in the presence of each other
                                                                Sworn Before
                                                                Geo Bruce Register