Will of Frederick Valentine - 1825, Allegany County, Maryland File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Carol Ann Nida. augazelle@erols.com USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. ************************************************************************ Frederick Valentine Maryland State Archives Microfilm W 871-872 Wills - Allegany County, Maryland Liber A, Page 240 - 241 In the name of God, Amen, I Frederick Valentine of Allegany County in the State of Maryland being very sick and weak in Health but of sound 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 prepared to leave this world when it shall please God to call me hence I do therefore make and publish this my last will and testament in the manner and form following, that is to say First and principally I commit my soul in the hands of Almighty God and my body to the Earth to be decently buried at the direction of my Executors herein after named and after my death and funeral charges are paid I devise and bequeath as follows First I give and bequeath unto my wife Catherine one hundred & fifty Dollars in money one bed one chest fifty yards of linen one cow and Kitchen furniture Reasonable and sufficient for her use I also give and bequeath unto my two grandchildren Deterick Rice and Anna Rice one hundred Dollars each. I give and bequeath unto my daughter Christina Two hundred Dollars I give and bequeath unto my daughter Susanna One hundred dollars I give and bequeath unto my Grandchild Mary Long Fifty dollars. I also give and bequeath unto my son Frederick the wagon and all the Horse gears also all the land belonging to my old place a tract called part of resurvey of Gumbers Goodness containing by deed thirty three and one half acres a tract called Stony Meadow by patent containing thirty three acres a tract called Valentines Addition by Patent Sixty one & one fourth acres a tract called Sugar Bottom by certificate six and one half acres I give and devise unto my son John all the land which I now own south of the Stony Lick the tract caller Good Will containing by Patent thirty three acres. Johns Addition by certificate twenty-six and one fourth acres Seass's Amendment by certificate forty four Acres also a tract called Slippery Hill And lastly I hereby constitute my sons John & Frederick to be the sole Executors of this my last will and testament revoking and annulling all former wills by me heretofore made ratifying and consigning this and none other to be my last will & Testament In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this fifteenth day of April in the year of our Lord One Thousand eight hundred and twenty five Signed Sealed published & delivered Frederick (X his mark) Valentine By Frederick Valentine the above testator as and for his last will and testament in the presence of us who at his request and in his presence and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as Witnesses thereto George Hoffman Peter Baumward (in German) John G. Hoffman Allegany County to wit: On the 13th day of September 1825 then came John Valentine and Frederick Valentine and made oath on the Holy Evangley of Almighty God that the foregoing instrument of writing is the true whole will and testament of Frederick Valentine late of Allegany County deceased that hath come to their hands and possession and that they do not know of any other Test Charles Heck Register Allegany County to wit: On the 13th day of September 1825 then came George Hoffman and Peter Baumward? Two of the subscribing witnesses to the foregoing last will and testament of Frederick Valentine late of Allegany County deceased and 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 and that at the time of his so doing he was to the best of their apprehensions of sound disposing mind memory and understanding and that they together with John G. Hoffman the other subscribing witness respectively subscribed their names as Witnesses to this will in the presence and at the request of the testator and all in the presence of each other Sworn before Charles Heck Register