Last Will and Testament of Adam BISH (1850), Carroll County, Maryland

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Will of Adam Bish... Carroll County, Md. Courthouse, Book 2 , Page 155-156
Transcribed by Richard Huneke, September 30, 2004


In the name of God Amen.  I Adam Bish of Carroll County in the state of 
Maryland, being weak and sick in body but of sound and disposing mind, memory 
and understanding, considering the certainty of death and the uncertainty of the 
time thereof and thereby be the better prepared to leave this world when it 
shall please Almighty God to call me hence, Do therefore make and publish this 
Instrument of writing to be 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 hereinafter named, and after my just debts, funeral charges and 
insitental (sic) expenses are paid I give and bequeath unto my beloved wife 
Elizabeth Bish, all my goods, chattels and personal estate of every discription 
(sic) that I may be seized and possessed of at the time of my death, except so 
much thereof as may be necessary for the payment of my just debts, funeral 
charges and all insidental (sic) expenses.  And I also authorize and empower my 
said Executor herein after named to sell at public sale (without an order from 
the Orphans Court) so much as may be necessary of my outstanding debts due and 
becoming due to me, on Bonds, notes, Book accounts, or otherwise, for the 
payment of my said debts, funeral charges, and expences (sic) with full power 
and authority to carry out the true intent and meaning of this my last will and 
Testament.  And lastly I do hereby constitute and appoint my Son William Bish to 
be sole Executor of this my last will and Testament revoking and annulling all 
former wills by me made ratifying and confirming this and none other to be my 
last will and Testament.  In testimony whereof I the said Adam Bish have 
hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal, on this Second day of April Eighteen 
hundred and fifty.

Adam Bish (his signature and seal)

Signed, sealed, published and Declared by Adam Bish 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 our names as 
witnesses thereto.

Joshua Wisner
Alfred W. Bish
J. Henry Hoppe

State of Maryland, Carroll County, to wit:
On the 9th of September 1854, before the Orphans Court for Carroll County came 
William Bish, the person who exhibited the aforegoing instrument of writing, and 
in open Court made oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God, that the same is 
the true, whole, and last will and Testament of Adam Bish, late of Carroll 
County deceased:  That the same came to his hands and possession by receiving it 
since Testator’s death, from J. Henry Hoppe, to whom Testator had delivered it 
for safe keeping:  And that he does not know of any other will or codicil, left 
by said deceased.
Test. Jos. M. Parke, Register

Maryland, Carroll County, To wit:
On the 9th day of September 1854, before the Orphans’ Court for Carroll County, 
came Joshua Wisner and J. Henry Hoppe two of he subscribing witnesses in and to 
the aforegoing last will and Testament of Adam Bish, late of Carroll County 
deceased, and in open Court, made oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God, 
that they did see Adam Bish, the Testator in said Will named, sign and seal said 
Will:  That they heard him publish, pronounce and declare the same to be his 
last will and Testament:  That at the time of so doing he the said Adam Bish, 
was, to the best of their apprehensions, knowledge and belief, of sound and 
disposing mind, memory and understanding:  And that they, together with Alfred 
W. Bish, the other subscribing witness to said will, subscribed their respective 
names, as witnesses to said will, at the request of the said Testator, in his 
presence, and in the presence of each other.
Test: Jos. M. Parke, Register of Wills