Will: Joseph Wright (1857): Charles County, MD Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Janet ************************************************************************ 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 *********************************************************************** June Term 1858 Will of Joseph Wright [MSA CR 80] [Chas. Co., JS #17, p 228-229] In the name of God Amen, I Joseph Wright of Charles County, in the State of Maryland, being sick and weak in body but of sound and disposing mind, memory and understanding and considering the certainty of death and the uncertainty of the time thereof and being desirous 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 remaking all family Wills. 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 hereafter named and after my debts and funeral charges are paid. 1st - I give and bequeath unto Josephine and Benjamin Ford, the two minor children of Marthey Ford a free colored woman my whole Estate, real, personal and mixed (sp?). 2nd - I give and bequeath unto Marthey Ford the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars to first come out of said estate. I hereby constitute Peter Wood as trustee for said children and I hereby appoint Peter Wood Executor of my last will and testament as given under my hand and seal this 23rd day of November 1857. Joseph Wright {SEAL} We the undersigned being call on by the testator to witness the last will who signed and acknowledged the same in our presence and we witness the same in his presence and the presence of each other. Richard Adams James Thomas E. F. Edelen On the back of the aforegoing will it is there written Charles County, June 9, 1858. Then came Richard Adams, James Thomas and E. F. Edelen the three subscribing witnesses in the written and aforegoing last will and testament of Joseph Wright late of Charles County deceased and made of Almighty God that they Testator there in named sign and seal this will and they heard him publish pronounce and declare the same to be his last will and testament at the time of his so doing he was to the best of their 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. J. D. Carpinter, Regr. Of Wills