Wills:  Renunciation of Benjamin Anderson’s Will, Baltimore County, Maryland

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Renunciation of Benjamin Anderson’s Will by Sarah Anderson, dated 12 August 1803

I Sarah Anderson widow of Benjamin Anderson late of Baltimore County deceased do 
hereby renounce and quit all claim to any bequest or devise made to me by the last will of 
my husband exhibited and proved accoirding to Law and I elect to take in lieu thereof my 
Dower or legal share of the Estate of my said Husband. Witness my hand and seal this 
twelfth day of August Eighteen hundred and three.

Sarah X Anderson
her mark

Samuel Chase Jr
Wm Gwynn Jr

Source: Maryland State Archives: Baltimore County, Register of Wills, Sarah Anderson, 
Volume 7-page 218.
Coordinators Note: Apparently this is the Sarah McCommas who married Benjamin 
Anderson 31 May 1779 in Baltimore Co.