Dorchester County MD Archives Wills..... John GLADSTONE, April 30, 1709
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Source: Liber 12, Folio 220, 221 (sr4406-1,2)
Written: April 30, 1709
Recorded: November 8, 1709

In the name of God Amen I John Gladstone of Dorchester County, being of sound 
mind and memory, but very weak of body praise be therefore to Almighty God do 
make and ordain this my last will and Testament in manner and form following 
(that is to say) first and principally - I commend into the hands of Almighty 
God hopeing - through the merritts Death and passion of my savior Jesus Christ 
to have full and free pardon and forgiveness of all my sins and to inherit 
everlasting life - and my body I comit to the earth to be decently buried at 
the discretion of my executor hereafter named and as touching the disposition 
of my temporall estate as it hath pleased Almighty God to bestow upon me - I 
give and dispose thereof as followeth - first I will that my debts and funeral 
charges shall be paid and discharged -

Item  I give unto my son William a breeding cow named Sis and a large iron 
gray horse branded with anchor fluke and three sows and pigs and a fether bed.

Item  I give to my son John a breeding cow named Pudding and a sorrell horse 
with a blaze in his face branded with a frog of a mill and a fether bed and 
pot.

Item  I give to my daughter Margret two breeding cows Pretty and Brownys 
heffer and a pot and fether bed.

Item  I give to my daughter Jane two breeding cows named Syes heffer and 
Puding heffer, a fether bed and a pot.

Item  I give my son Wm a tract land called Dublin cont. three hundred acres.

Item  I give to daughter Margret a tract of land called Gladflore cont. one 
hundred acres.

Item  I give to daughter Jane a tract of land called Gladstones Adventure 
cont. one hundred acres.

Item  I give unto my son John a tract of Land lying in the Indian Town cont. 
three hundred and fifty acres of land confirmed to me by Francis Anderton.

Item  I give to all my children equally to be divided nine thousand lbs 
tobacco due from Edward Harper on the confirming (a tract of land sold him 
called Glasco) by my son William and case of mortality to be done by my son 
John.

Item  I give to all my children equally to be divided amongst them the product 
of fourteen hundred foot of pine plank and those shigles that lie at my 
landing.

Item  I give to all my children equally to be divided the product of my 
shallot but the sd shallot to be at the disposing of John Ryder and he to 
render the produce to my children.

Item  I desire my son Wm make over a tract of land Daniel Security upon the 
consideration that John Ryder pay four thousand pounds of tobacco to my 
children equally to be divided amongst them except one thousand out of the sd 
tobacco to be pay John Macuett for salecating? my son William.  And I desire 
nothing be disposed of without the advice of my well and trusty friend Mr. 
Thomas Hick Sr and John Ryder whom I leave trust over my children.

Item  I give to my children equally to be divided amongst them that tract of 
land Huit contrivance cont. four hundred acres when disposed of and all the 
rest of my personal estate good & chattels whatforever I give and bequeath 
unto my loving son William Gladstone full and sole executorship of this my 
last will & testament, and desare that my body may be buried and I do hereby 
revoke disanull and make void all forms of wills and testaments by me 
heretoforemade.  I witness whereof I the said John Gladstone to this my last 
will & testament being contained in half a sheet of paper.  set my hand and 
seale the 30th day of April Anno Dmi 1709.
                                                 John Gladstone (seal)
J. Rider Isaac Marret, Joseph(mark)I Thompson
Nov 8th 1709 came before me John Rider and Joseph Thompson, two of the within 
evidence and made oath that they be just.



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