Charles County MD Archives Wills.....Margaret REEVES, December 2, 1803
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Written: December 2, 1803
Recorded: May 3, 1804

Charles County, Maryland
Will Book 12, Page 191-193

In the name of God Amen, I Margaret Reeves of Charles County and State of 
Maryland being sick and weak in body but of perfect mind and memory thnks be 
to God, and calling to mind the mortallity (sic) of my body & knowing that it 
is appointed for us all once to die do make & ordain this my last will and 
testament that is to say principally & first of all I give and recommend my 
soul into the hands of almighty God that gave it and my body I recommend to 
the earth to be buryed in decent Christian burial at the discretion of my 
Executor hereafter named, and as touching such worldly Estate as hath pleased 
God to bless me with in this life I give demise & dispose of in the manner and 
form following viz ~ Item I give and bequeath (sic) to my grandson John 
Chandler Maccoy one feather Bed, Bedstead and furniture, one large pewter 
dish, three pewter plates & two pewter Basons and Eight Spoons, one Iron pot, 
and one Iron Griddle, and one pair Iron pot hooks, and one looking glass, also 
one other pewter bason and plalte, one writeing (sic) desk and all the Books 
contained in the Same, and also the Just and full amt. of the property I left 
in the hands of Stephen Howison Junr. and also one Gold ring and one small 
Chest and I do hereby utterly disallow revoke and disannul all and every other 
former testaments wills, legacies, bequests and Executors by me in any wise 
before named willed and bequeathed ratifying and confirming this to be my last 
will and testament, and lastly I constitute and appoint my beloved friend and 
relation Alexander Howison as Executor of this my last will and testament, the 
said Alexander Howison being of the State of Virginia Prince William County 
where my property lies, In witness whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and 
Seal this Second December one thousand Eight Hundred and three ~
Sign’d Seal’d and deliver’d			mark
In presence of us		}	Margrett  X  Reeves (Seal)
Isaich (his X mark) Mcdaniel	}       	 her
Thomas I. Reeves		}
Elizabeth (mark X her) Reeves	}
on the back of the aforegoing will it is thus written Charles County Sct. May 
3rd 1804 Then came Isaac McDaniel and Thomas I. Reeves two of the subscribing 
witnesses to the within last will and testament of Margarett Reeves formerly 
of Prince William County Virginia and late of Charles County deceased and made 
oath on the Holy evangels of almighty God that they did See the testatrix 
therein  named sign and seal this will and that they heard her publish 
pronounce and declare the same to be her 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 together with Elizabeth 
Reeves the other subscribing witness respectively subscribed their names as 
witnesses to this will in the presence and at the request of the testatrix and 
in the presence of each other ~
4¾ sides (?)		Test	Humphrey Barnes Regr. of wills


Additional Comments:
Margaret Robey first married Benjamin McCoy.  After his death circa 1774, she 
married James Reeves, son of Thomas Reeves of Prince Charles County.

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