Will of Isabel BOWIE (1783): Charles County, MD Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Mark Davis, ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net *********************************************************************** April Court 1787 Isabel Bowie ~ Will In the name of God Amen - I Isabel Bowye of Charles County in The Province of Maryland being sick and weak but of sound, mind and memory thanks be to God therefore calling to mind the uncertainty of this life and that it is appointed for all woman once to die do make and ordain this to be my last Will and Testament in the following manner making null and void all other Wills by me made heretofore. First and Principally I commend my soul unto the hands of Almighty God that gave it me and my body to the earth to be buried in a descent Christian like manner at the discretion of my executor hereafter named. Such as to what worldly estate it hath pleased God to bless me with I dispose of in the following manner. (Word unreadable) I will that all my just debts and funeral charges be first paid Item- I give to my son James Peel Bowye sixty acres of land a part of Manisclare Chase to be paid of from the first sale of (unreadable) tract of land in a four square. Item- I give to my son Benjamin Bowye the remaining part of my land where I now dwell; If my son William Bowye is a mind to come back upon the land to live again ; to live his lifetime upon it where he lived before and after my two sons death ; Benjamin Bowye and William Bowye my land to be left to my son James Peel Bowye, his heirs lawfully begotten forever; In witness whereof I have here unto set my hand and affixed my seal the 9th day of February 1783 Signed sealed and delivered in the presence of John Smith, Rhody Adams and Josias Adams At the foot of which will is thus written Charles County 12th March 1787 then came James P. Bowye heir at law to Isbel Bowye late of Charles County deceased and made oath on the Holy Evangel of Almighty God that the foregoing instrument of writing is the true (unreadable) Last Will Testament of the said deceased that hath come to his hand and possession and that he doth not know of any other. Signed John Muschett Reg. of Wills Then came Jon Smith, Rhody Adams, and Josias Adams the three subscribing witnesses to the foregoing Last Will and Testament of Isbel Bowye late of Charles County deceased and (unreadable) made an oath on the Holy Evangel of Almighty God that they did see thee Testator therein named Sign, Seal this Will that they heard her publish, pronounce and declare the same to be his last Will and Testament. That at the time of her so doing she was to the best of their apprehensions of sound and disposing mind, memory and understanding and that they respectively subscribed their names as witnesses to this Will in the presence and at the request of the Testator and in the presence of each other Certified by John Muschett Reg. of Wills On the 12th March 1787 Letter of Administration with will (unreadable) on the Estate of Isabel Bowie to James Peel Bowie and his bond with Thomas Posey and Josias Adams his securities was taken in the form of Two Hundred Pounds current money for due Administration.