Anne Arundel County MD Archives Wills.....Robert SHIPLEY, June 23, 1823
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Source: Patent 1719 Anne Arundel County Circuit Court
Written: June 23, 1823
Recorded: January 6, 1824

In the name of God Amen. I Robert Shipley of Anne Arundel County in the State of
Maryland being weak in body 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 wordly 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 almighty God and my
body to the earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my executor herein
after named and after my debts and financial charges are paid I devise and
bequeath as follows

Item it is my will and desire that my wife Rachel Shipley shall have a home at
my dwelling and be gently supported by my executor during her life & I also give
my said wife Rachel Shipley a legacy of five hundred Dollars to be paid by my
executor which bequests I give to her in lieu of her thirds which she would be
entitled to in my real and personal Estate

Item I give and bequeath to my son Edward Shipley all that part of a tract of
Land called the Willow Spring contained within the following metes and bound
beginning at a Stone Standing under a Peach tree in the West side of my lane it
being also at the end of the twenty ninth line of the whole tract aforesaid and
running from thence with a straight line to a stone marked with the figure five
standing near the (over)
Edge of the road on the west side of the lane aforesaid and running from said
stone in with the road until it crosses the branch then on with the left hand
road into the hill by a row of wild cherry trees still on with said road until
it intersects the seventh line of the land called Willow Spring near the end of
said line. Then with the line to the end thereof then still bounding on the
outlines of said tract until it come home to the first beginning all of which
land lays on the South West side of the before mentioned road. The above named
land and premises I give to my son Edward Shipley his heirs and assigns forever
also I give to my son Edward Shipley one thousand Dollars to be paid by my
executor herein after named. 

Item I give to my daughter Eleanor Hobbs one thousand dollars as a legacy to be
paid by my executor.

Item I give to my daughter Ruther Gaither on thousand Dollars as a legacy to be
paid by my executor.

Item all the rest and residue of my estate both real and personal I give and
devise to my son William Shipley to him his heirs and assigns forever

And lastly I do hereby constitute my beloved son William Shipley to be the sole
executor of this my last Will and Testament revoking and annulling all former
wills by me heretofore made ratifying and confirming this and none other to be
my last Will and Testament.

In Testimoney whereof  I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this
twenty third day of June in the Year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and
twenty three.
							
						Robert Shipley (Seal) 


Signed sealed published and declared by Robert Shipley 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 the presence of each other here subscribed our names as
witnesses thereto.

Thomas Hood
Benjamin Hood
Daniel Warfield

Anne Arundel County the 6th day of Januaray 1824
Then came Thomas Hood and Daniel Warfield two of the subscribed witnesses to the
aforegoing Will of Robert Shipley late of said County acceaded 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 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 together with Benjamin Hood 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.

				Thos H Hall  Thos Chills a a (sic)
Anne Arundel County  6 January 1824, Then Came William Shipley and made an oath
on the Holy Evangely of the Almighty God that the afore giving instrument of
writing is the true whole  and last Will and Testament of Robert Shipley late of
said County deceased that hath come to his hands or possession and that he doth
not know of any other. 
						Thos H Hall Esq Thos Chills a a ct




Additional Comments:
Source Land Patent 1719 Anne Arundel County Circuit Court
Date:              	1824/01/30
Description:	Willow Spring, William Shipley and Edward Shipley, 410 1/2 Acres


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