Will of Benjamin MAULDIN, (1804) Cecil County, Maryland

This file was contributed by Carl Mauldin <carl316@scti.net>.

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Cecil Co., Maryland
Feb 1804

In the name of God, Amen. I Benjamin Mauldin of Cecil Co. State of
Maryland, being very sick and weak 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 to leave this world when it shall please God, to call me
hence. Do therefore make and publish this my Last Will and
Testament, in manner and form following.

First and Principally I commit my soul unto the Hands of Almighty
God and my body to the earth to be decently buried at the
discretion of my Executrix herein after named and after my debts
and funeral charges are paid and my wifes third taken, I desire to
bequeath as follows. It is my will and desire that my plantation
shall be divided betyween my two sons, Thomas and James, beginning
for a division line between them on the Bay Shore at High Water
Mark opposite to the ditch cut through my meadow then with the
ditch as far as it extend then up the valley until it intersects a
gully at the side of the field then with a straight line from said
gully across the field until

//Remainder of Will Missing//

According to published information, James Mauldin - San Francisco,
CA has a family Bible that lists ten children to this Benjamin.