Will of Daniel NAIL (1828), Carroll County, MD Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Roger Nale http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm *********************************************************************** Liber HS 3, Folio 628 Microfilm CR 49, 163; Maryland State Archives Will of Daniel Nail, son of Philip Daniel Nail, July 11, 1828. "In the name of God Amen, I Daniel Nail of Frederick County, in the State of Maryland, being sick in body, but of sound and disposing mind, memory, and understanding, knowing the certainty of death, and the uncertainty of the time thereof, and being desirous to settle my wordly 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 the 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 herin after named. Item. I direct that the whole of my estate both real and personal shall be sold by my Executor herinafter namd as soon as may be, after my death either at publick or at private sale as he may think best, and after my debts and funeral charges are paid, I direct that the proceeds of such sale or sales shall be divided as follows. Item. I give and bequeath unto Ester Stoneseiffer (the woman who now lives with me) fifty dollars current money for her services rendered. Item. I give and bequeath unto Peter Nail son of Jacob two dollars current money, the ballance of the money arising from the above named sale or sales I give and bequeath unto my brothers & sisters children, share and share alike to be paid to them when they shall arrive at lawfull age, or to their Guardian, excepting Peter Nail son of Jacob who is to have no more than the above named two dollars. And lastly I hereby nominate, constitute and appoint my friend Jacob Mathias sole executor of this my last will and testament, authorising my said Executor to convey by deed of conveyance all property he may sell under the directions of this will, in as full & ample a manner as I myself would do, were I personally present & yet living, 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 eleventh day of July Eighteen hundred and twenty eight. his Signed, Sealed, published and declared by Daniel X Nail {Seal} the above named Daniel Nail, as and for his mark last will and testament, in the presence of us who at his request in his presence and in the pre- sence of each other have subscribed our names as witnesses thereto. Robert Crawford David Leister John Slyder Maryland Frederick County to wit; On the 21st day of July 1828, came Jacob Mathias and made Oath on the Holy Evangels of Almighty God, that the foregoing instrument of writing, is the true whole will and testament of Daniel Nail, late of Frederick County, deceased, that hath come to his hands and professes, that he doth not know of any other. Test. G. M. Eichelberger Reg. Maryland Frederick County to wit. On the 21st day of July 1828, came Robert Crawford and _____, two of the subscribing witnesses to the foregoing last will and testament of Daniel Nail, decd., 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 thereto, at the request of the testator, and in his presence, and they did also see ______, the other subscribing witness, subscribe his name, as a witness thereto, at the request of the testator, and in his presence, and all in the presence of each other. -- Test. G. M. Eichelberger Reg.