Wills:  Will of Sele Tucker, (1783) Anne Arundel County, Maryland

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Will of Sele TUCKER, of Anne Arundel County, dtd. 21 January 1783

Source:
Maryland State Archives
Anne Arundel County; Wills; TG#1,1780 - 1786
Microfilm Reel CR 72,253-1, Folio 117

In the name of God Amen I Sele Tucker of the Swamp in Ann Arundel County in the 
State of Maryland Planter Being Sick and weak of Body, but of Sound mind, memory and 
uderstanding; Do make and ordain this my Last Will and Testament in manner and form 
following ~ 

My Body being decently Inter'd And all my just Debts paid I Give and Bequeath unto my 
beloved wife Rebecca Tucker during her Widowhood the whole of my lands and 
Tenements for her own use, and afterwards to my Son Thomas his Heirs, and Assigns 
forever ~

I Give and bequeath unto my said wife Rebecca during her Widowhood the whole of my 
Personal Estate for her own Use, and afterwards to be equally divided among my Younger 
Children Vizt.

Unto my Sons James Sele John William and Richard and unto my Daughters Elizabeth 
Mary Ann Rebecca and Margaret for their own use and their Heirs forever excluding my 
Son Thomas from any Part of my Personal Estate I will and desire if my Son Thomas be 
inclinable to dispose of my Lands & Tenements in Order to purchase another Settlement 
during the Widowhood of his Mother that with her consent, he may so act allowing her 
the same Liberty uninterrupted as she is priviledged by me 

Lastly I constitute and Appoint my beloved Wife Rebecca Tucker Sole Executrix of this 
My Last Will and Testament revoking all former Wills and declare this to be my Last Will 
& Testament in Witness whereof I have hereunto Set my Hand and Seal this twenty first 
day of January One Thousand seven hundred and Eighty two ~

Signed Sealed published & declared to be the Last Will and Testament of the testator in 
the presence of us the Subscribers

J Hamelton 
Thomas Tucker
Richard (his R mark) Bryant
Matthew Beard           Sele Tucker
On the back of the aforegoing Will was the following endorsement to wit
June the 4th 1783 ~ Then came Richard Bryant & Matthew Beard two of the subscribing 
Evidences to the aforegoing Will and made Oath on the Holy Evangels of Almighty God 
that they did see the Testator Sele Tucker sign and this Will and that they heard him 
publish 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 and disposing mind Memory 
and understanding and that they together with J Hamelton and Thomas Tucker 
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 Thos. Gassaway Reg Wills for AA Cy