Wills: Will of John Albaugh, Sr. (1810): Frederick County, MD

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Will of John Albaugh Sr.
Frederick Co., MD
Liber R B 1  Folio 167, 168

In The Name of God Amen I John Albaugh Senior of Frederick County and state of 
Maryland being in perfect health of Body and of sound and disposing mind memory 
and understanding 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 home 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 Executor  hereinafter named 
Secondly it is my will and desire that after my Decease all my real and personal 
Estate is to be sold by Executor hereinafter named to the best advantage the 
Real Estate consisting of Two hundred and two Acres of Land more or less called 
the resurvey on Chestnut Levell and to be conveyed by a good and Lawful Deed  by 
my Executor hereinafter named and after my Just Debts and funeral charges are 
paid the money arising out of the sales of my Estate is to be Equally divided 
amongst all my children namely William Albaugh, Philip Albaugh (heirs), Anna Dim 
Comfer, John Albaugh, Mary Steel, Julian Albaugh, Susannah Eador, Daniel 
Albaugh, Elisabeth Roads and Catherine Smith all to have Share and share alike, 
the heirs of Philip Albaugh are to have but one share and that to be Equally 
divided among them Share and Share alike
And Lastly I constitute and appoint my beloved son John Albaugh to be sole 
Executor of this my last will and Testament revoking and annulling all former 
wills by me heretofore made ratifying and  confirming this and none other to be 
my last will and Testament   In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand 
and Affixed my seal this twenty fourth day of April  Eighteen hundred and ten 

John Albaugh Senr. ,  His mark,  seal

Signed Sealed Published and Delivered 
by John Albaugh the above named Testator as and for his last will and Testament  
in the presence of us  who at the request in his presence and in the presence of 
each other  have Subscribed our names  as Witnesses thereto
Daniel Etzler,  Rinehart Waltz, Abm. Albaugh  

Frederick County to wit on the 23rd day of March 1811 Then came John Albaugh and 
made Oath on the holy Evangels of Almighty God that the foregoing Instrument of 
writing is the true whole will and Testament of John Albaugh Senr. late of 
Frederick County Deceased that hath come to his hands and possession and that he 
Doth not know of any other 
Richd. Butler Regr.

Frederick County to wit on the 23rd day of March 1811 then came Daniel Etzler & 
Rinehart Waltz two of the Subscribing witnesses to the foregoing and Annexed 
last will and Testament of John Albaugh Senr. late of Frederick County Deceased 
and made oath on the holy Evangels of Almighty God that they did see the 
Testator therein named Sign & seal this will, that they heard him publish 
pronounce and declare the same to be his last will and Testament that at the 
time of his so doing he was to the best of their apprehensions of a sound and 
Disposing mind memory and understanding that they respectively Subscribed their 
names as witnesses to this will in the presence and at the request of the 
Testator and all in the presence of each other 
Richd. Butler Regr.