Will of George LIPPY (1859); Carroll County, Maryland

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No 683: Last Will and Testament of George Lippy, Decd.
Wills - Carroll County, MD, 

In the name of God Amen.

I George Lippy 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 being 
desirous to settle my worldly affairs and thereby be the better prepared 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.  To wit, After payment of my debts, funeral and other expenses are 
paid, I order, direct, give and bequeath my estate, of which I may die signed 
and possessed of as follows.  To wit:

I give and bequeath unto Sarah McCue, by housekeeper, during her natural life, 
the dwelling house, stable and out buildings where I now live, situated lying on 
the Westminster and Littlestown Turnpike road, with about twenty-five or thirty 
acres of land attached to said dwelling house, to be laid off by my executor 
hereafter named the division line of the above and my other lands to run as the 
ground will suit and admit of.  Beginning at the same at a corner stone 
heretofore planted on a outline of my land and Stansbury’s (formerly), Being the 
beginning our Bankert’s land, and running thence in the direction of a spring 
generally used when making hay, called and known as the upper spring.  Leaving 
said spring on the right side of the said line to be run, thence across the 
meadow to a wagon road used for hauling hay and wood from the lower part of the 
farm then across to a middle fence, thence running to a stuble [sic] field below 
the Barn, then with the fence along said stuble field to strike about two 
perches back of the Barn, belonging to the dwelling house now occupied by Mrs. 
Townson as Tenant, thence running up the road with the fence in the direction of 
my home dwelling, about ten perches from the Barn, and then running at right 
angle to nearly so, into the field adjoining the turnpike road, aforesaid ten 
perches or thereabouts and then running a parallel line with the post and nail 
fence from my dwelling to  the lower barn, until it intersects the outlines of 
my lands on the aforesaid turnpike road, then running with and bounding on the 
outlines of my land as heretofore marked and bounded to the place of Beginning 
to Sarah McCue during her natural life, as long as she remains single.  After 
her death or marriage, then I order and direct said land and premises so devised 
as aforesaid to be sold at public sale by my executor hereinafter named and the 
proceeds of the sale thereof to be equally divided among my five children now in 
the care and custody of Sarah McCue my housekeeper, viz, Jerome Lippy, Francis 
C. Lippy, Noah L. Lippy, Edward Lippy and James R. Lippy to them their heirs and 
assigns.

I give and bequeath unto Sarah McCue the following goods and chattels To wit:  
One cow her choice, one tin plate stove and pipe (the one in my bedroom), four 
good beds and bedsteads, one trundle bed and bedstead, one Hataway Cooking 
Stone, pipe and all the apparatus and fixtures thereto belonging, one leaf 
table, and all the carpetting [sic] in the two lower rooms, one Bureau her 
choice, six Windsor chairs, four split bottom chairs, three hogs, her choice, or 
the meat of three good hogs – ten dollars worth of Kitchen furniture such as she 
may select, at the appraised value, and all the provision of every description 
that was laid up, and such other articles at the time of my death.  Also all the 
hay straw manure and other provender that may lie in or about or on the Stable 
next and attached to the home dwelling at the time of my death.  All the above 
named property I give and bequeath to Sarah McCue, my housekeeper, for the 
better support and maintenance, and aiding her to raise up my children now in 
her care and custody.

And the balance of my personnel estate I order and direct to be sold and the 
balance of my home farm, together with all my right title, interest and estate 
which I have in and to the plantation whereon David Lippy now lives as tenant of 
Joseph Hesson. Said farm situate on Big Pike Creek in Carroll County I order and 
direct to be sold by my Executor herein after named.  And the proceeds of the 
sales of my real and personal Estate, and collection of my outstanding debts due 
and owing to me, on Book accounts or otherwise, I order after the payments of my 
debts, funeral charges are paid, I give and bequeath as follows.  

I give and bequeath unto my son, David Lippy the sum of three hundred dollars.

I give and bequeath unto my son, William Lippy, two hundred dollars.

I give and bequeath unto my daughter Rebecca, now the wife of Joseph Hesson and 
unto my daughter Catharine, now the wife of Isaac Hesson, each one the sum of 
three hundred dollars, the above named legacies to be paid one year after my 
death.

And whereas I have accounts charged on my Book against some of my children, 
which said amounts of said accounts, to be accounted for, as having received so 
much of my estate in part of their distributive share, and the balance of my 
estate remaining in the hands of my Executor herein named, to be equally divided 
among all my children as follows To wit:  William Lippy, David Lippy, John 
Lippy, Rebecca the wife of Joseph Hesson, Catharine the wife of Isaac Hesson, 
Elizabeth the wife of Levi Bish, Magdalen the wife of (name unknown), Ann the 
wife of (name unknown), one equal share to the children of my deceased daughter 
Susan, who was intermixed with John H. Porter, and Jerome Lippy, Francis Lippy, 
Edward Lippy, Noah Lippy and James R. Lippy, share and share alike the charges 
made in my book to be deducted and the share coming to such of my children owing 
to me, on said Book of accounts.

And lastly, I do hereby constitute and appoint my friend, J. Henry Hoppe sole 
Executor of this my last will and Testament, with full power and authority to 
sell and convey my ral estate herein before directed to be sold by deed or deeds 
of conveyance to the purchaser or purchasers in as full and ample a manner as I 
could if I were living to convey the same myself.  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 testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Seal this sixth 
day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty 
nine.

George Lippy (his mark) (Seal)

Signed, sealed and published and declared by George Lippy, 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:

Levi D. Frock
Adam Manger
Jacob Myerley

Maryland, Carroll County, To wit:

On the 26th day of November 1860, before the Orphans Court for Carroll County, 
came J. Henry Hoppe, 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 and whole last Will and Testament of George Lippy, late of 
Carroll county deceased:  That he received it from the Testator 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 26th day of November 1869, before the Orphans Court for Carroll County, 
came Levi D. Frock and Jacob Myerley, two of the subscribing witnesses to the 
aforegoing last Will and Testament of George Lippy, late of Carroll County, 
deceased; and in open Court, made oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God, 
that they did see George Lippy, the Testator on said will named, sigh and seal 
said will, setting his mark thereto.  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 George Lippy, was, to the best of their apprehensions, 
knowledge and belief, of sound and disposing mind, memory and understanding, and 
that they, together with Adam Manger, 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


From the Carroll County Courthouse, transcribed by Richard B. Huneke