Will of Jane Watts: 1749, Charles County, MD 

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<lsimms@world.std.com>.  Transcribed by Raphael T. Semmes in his
book The Semmes and Allied Families, Baltimore, 1918.

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                                WILL OF
                   JANE WATTS OF CHARLES COUNTY, MD.

  To William Neale, £50 sterling, part of a bond from John Muschett and Mr.
Ralph Falkner payable to me. The remainder of the bond and the whole
interest to be divided equally between Ralph Falkner's children.
  Grandson, Henry Brent,
  Nephew, William Matthews Thompson,
Friend, Jane Hanson, alias Thompson, personality.
Nephew, Richard Matthews Thompson, the residue.
Extr.. my nephew, Richard Matthews Thompson.

Witnesses: William Hanson, Elizabeth Pye, Margaret Chapman.
Will dated October 19, 1749. Proved December 19, 1749.


    NOTES: She was Jane Thompson, born November 13, 1689, daughter of
Victoria Matthews and William Thompson, of William Thompson.     She first
married Henry Brent, died 1709, Charles Countv, Md., of Capt. Geo. Brent,
of Virginia, by his wife, Mary, who died March 12, 1693-4, widow of Col.
Wm. Chandler and daughter of Henry Sewall by his wife, Jane Lowe. Jane
(Lowe) Sewall later married Charles Calvert, Lord Baltimore.     This
testator had one child, viz: Wm. Brent, died 1745-6, Charles County.
She secondly married Capt. Jno. Watts, whose will made in England and whose
acct. passed Charles County, Md., 1739.-R. T. Semmes. 1918