Last Will and Testament of George RINEHARD (1800), Carroll County, Maryland Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Rick Huneke [rickhuneke@hotmail.com] Copyright 2004. All Rights Reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/md/mdfiles.htm ******************************************************************************** Will of George Rinehard... Frederick County, Md. Courthouse, Folio GM3, Page 422-425 Transcribed by Richard Huneke, September 9, 2004 In the Name of God Amen. The twenty ninth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight Hundred I George Rinehard of Frederick County and State of Maryland being very Sick and Weak of Body but of perfect mind and memory thanks be Given unto God therefore calling to mind the mortality of my Body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die do make and ordain this my last will and Testament that is to say Principally and first of all I Give and recommend my Soul into the hand of God that gave it and for my Body I recommend it to the Earth to be Buried in a Christian like and decent manner at the Discretion of my Executors nothing doubting but the General Resurrection I shall receive the same by the mighty favor of god and a Touching such worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to Bless me in this life I give devise and Dispose of the same in the following manner and form. Imprimis It is my will and I do order that in the first place all my Just Debts and funeral charges be paid and Satisfied. I Give and Bequeath unto my well beloved wife Magdalena all my Estate both Real and Personal during her life or as long as she lives my widow, but if she should marry then she shall have one Hundred Acres of Land being the Hundred Acres that I bought of my sisters where my mother lived on my said wife is to have the old house and Gartain (sic) and two milk Cows and Ten Apple Trees for her use during her natural life but if she dies the said Hundred Acres of Land is to be Divided amongst my five Children George, Barbara, Mary, Elisabeth and Salome but if my said wife should not marry again She is to live with her son George in the Brick House and she is to Have one Room and Kitchen and Iine the Black Girl for her mad (sic) after my Wifes Decease the black Girl named Iine shall belong to my son George and to his heirs forever by my said son George is to give to my said Wife Twelve Bushels of wheat and three Bushels of Rye Yearly and keep her two Cows and to feed them of his own feed with hay and Hopp and to give her yearly one hundred Pounds of Good fat pork and that she is to have as long as she lives my widow. I give and bequeath to my son George Rinehart Two Hundred and fifty seven Acres of Land part of Phillipsbough and Chestnut Ridge the Whole Survey and part of Owings Trust Containing ten Acres of Land my son said son is to have an Waggon (sic) and two Horses and Gears and Plow and the Clock that I have in my house and my said son George is not to have the above legacy until he arrives to the Age of Twenty one Years then he is to have it for him and his heirs forever but if my son George should Die without heirs then the above legacy shall fall to his sisters Barbara, Mary, Elisabeth and Salome and their heirs. I give and Bequeath to my Daughter Barbara the Elder one Hundred and Eleven Acres of Land that place which I Bought of Samuel Chadd and she is to have one hundred and thirty nine Acres of Land which I bought of Bruce adjoining said Chadds land the said two hundred and fifty Acres of land to my said Daughter Barbara and her heirs forever but if my Daughter Barbara should die without heirs her legacy shall fall back to her Brother George and Sisters Mary, Elisabeth and Salome. And I Give and bequeath to my Daughter Mary the Old place that on Pipe Creek and to my Daughter Elisabeth that place that I bought of Leonard Hump them two Daughters is to have three Hundred and thirteen acres of Land them two places must be divided by two men that such of them two Daughters Mary and Elisabeth got meadow ground and of land each alike value to my said Daughters Mary and Elisabeth to them their heirs forever after they arrive at the age of Twenty one Years but if my daughters Mary and Elisabeth should die without heirs their legacy shall fall back to their brother and sisters before mentioned. I Give and bequeath to my Daughter Salome Two Hundred Acres of Land more or less with a Straight line as the Devition fence now Devites my home place and the place which I bought of John Shaull it being the place which I bought of John Shaull to her and her heirs forever and she shall have the above legacy as soon as she comes to the Age of Twenty one years but if my Daughter Salome should die without heirs her legacy shall fall back to her brother and sisters as above mentioned. And it is my will and do ordain that the Rest of my Estate Real and personnel not heretofore mentioned be Equally Divided amongst my son and four Daughters above mentioned. And I constitute make and Ordain my well beloved Wife Magdalena and Henry Mathias my only and Sole Executors of this my Last will and Testament and I do Utterly Disallow revoke and disannul all and every other former Testament wills legacies and Executors by me in anywise before this time made named willed and Bequeathed Rattifying and confirming this and no Other to be my last will and Testament. In witness whereof I have here unto set my hand and seal the day and the year above Written. Signed Sealed Published pronounced and Declared by the said Valentine Rinehart as his last Will and Testament in the presence of us the Subscribers. George Rinehart (his signature) (his seal) Henry Lippie (his signature) Johannes Lindeman (his signature) John Bower (his signature) Frederick County, December 13th 1800 There came Magdelena Rinehart and Henry Mathias made oath on the Holy Evangels of Almighty God that the aforegoing Instrument of writing is the True and whole will and Testament of George Rinehart late of Frederick County Deceased that hath come to their hands and possession and that they do not know of any other. George Murdock Register Frederick County, December 13th 1800 There came Henry Lippie and John Lindeman two of the Subscribing Witnesses to the aforegoing Last Will and Testament of George Rinehart late of Frederick County Deceased and made oath on the Holy Evangels of Almighty God that they did see the Testator therein named Sign and seal this will that they 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 their Apprehensions of a Sound and Disposing mind memory and understanding that they respectively Subscribed their names as Witnesses to this Will in the Presence and at the request of the Testator And that they did Also see John Bower the other Subscribing Witness Sign his name as a Witness to said Will in the Presence and at the request of the Testator and all in the Presence of each Other. George Murdock Register