Wills:  Will of John Mays, Sr., (1860) Baltimore County, Maryland

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Will of John Mays Senr. of Baltimore Co. dtd 1860


In the name of God Amen, I John Mays Senr of Baltimore County in the State of 
Maryland, being weak in body but of Sound and disposing mind, memory, and 
understanding and considering the certainty of death and the uncertainty of the time 
thereof and being desireous to settle my worldly affair and thereby be the better prepared 
to leave this world when it Shall please God to call me hence to therefore make and 
publish this My last will and testament in manner and form following, that is to say.

First and principally I committ My soul into the hands of Almighty God and My body to 
the earth, to be decently buried at the discretion of my Executor hereinafter named, and 
after My debts and funeral Charges Are paid I devise and bequeath as follows:

Item. I give and devise unto My son Thomas G. Mays all my Estate both real and personal 
(out of which he is to pay the following legacys to the following named persons) the above 
devise of real estate to him the Said Thomas G. Mays his heirs and assigns in fee Simple.

Item. I give and bequeath unto my daughter Elizabeth Ann Miller wife of Robert Miller 
the sum of Six Hundred Dollars.

Item. I give and bequath unto my daughter Rachel G. Miller, Wife of Stephen Miller the 
sum of Six Hundred Dollars.

Item I give and bequeath unto my son John P. Mays the sum of two hundred dollars.

The aforesaid legacys to be paid by my son Thomas G. Mays to the aforesaid legatees 
within three years after my decease. and lastly I do hereby constitute and appoint My sons 
Thomas G. Mays and John P. Mays to be Sole Executors of of this my last will and 
testament revoking and anulling all former wills by me heretofore made. ratifying and 
confirming this and none other to be My last will and testament in testamony where of I 
have Persented Set My hand and affixed My Seal this --- day ------in the year of our Lord 
one thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty.

/s/ John Mays Senr.

Signed Sealed published and declared by John Mays Senr. 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 have subscribed ournames as witnesses thereto: 
Saml. D. Price 
B. A. Price 
William G. Almony. 

Baltiomore County SS. On this 13th day of October 1868 came William G. Almony 
Subscribing witness to the aforegoing Last Will and Testament of John Mays Sr. late of 
said County deceased, and made oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God that he did 
See the Testator Sign and Seal this will that he 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 his apprehension of sound and disposing mind, memory, and understanding, 
andthat he together with B. A. Price and Samul D. Price Subscribed their names as 
witnesses to this will in his presence at his request, and in the presence of each other 
Sworn to in Open Court. Test. O. P. Macgill, Register of Wills for Baltimore County.