Last Will and Testament of James Oliver (1836): Charles County, Maryland

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                               December Term 1836
               Will of James Oliver, Charles County, Maryland
                                 (DJ 16 76)
                      (MSA microfilm roll WK 246-247)

In the name of God Amen. I, James Oliver, of Charles County in the state of Maryland
bring sick and weak body, but of sound mind, memory and understanding, and considering
the certainty of death and the uncertainty of the time thereof and bring 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. 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 Executrix herein after named and after my death and funeral charges
are paid I devise and bequeath as follows:
	Item, it is my will and desire that the whole of my property that I now have
or may die possessed of I give and bequeath to my wife Susana Oliver and my young 
children
not married, that is to say, Matildus, Adaline, James Otho, Laty Ann, Sarah Ann, Amelia
and Lambert Valentine to be and remain for them and their use during their single lives,
but if any of my above-named children marry and my executrix should give them any part
of my property, it is to be deducted from their part after the whole is married or dead.
It is further my will and desire that my daughter Dorothy Ann Colley should have a
proportion of my property after deducting what she has already received. It is further
my will and desire that the part that she is to receive may be paid to in such a manner
that no person can destroy or make away with it and further it is my will and desire that
my two sons, James Otho and Lambert Valentine, may have the whole of my real property that
I now have or may die possessed of and my mature daughters to have all of my personal
property wishing the whole both real and personal to remain in my wife's possession during
her natural life for the support of her and my young children.
It is further my will and desire that my granddaughter, Elizabeth Ann Ware is to receive
her proportion of my personal property with the rest of my daughters provided her parent
has not already received it before my death.
	And lastly, I do hereby constitute and appoint my dear wife Susana Oliver to be
my sole Executrix of this my last will and testament, revoking all former wills by me made,
ratifying this and none other to be my last will and testament.
	In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this
27th day of December 1834.

Will executed January 3, 1837.



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