Will of John CRONISE (1840); Frederick County, MD Contributed to the USGenWeb Archives by Sharon L. Casteel http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ********************************************************* In the name of God Amen I, John Cronise of Frederick County State of Maryland of sound mind, memory & understanding, do make this my last will & testament, hereby expressly revoking and annulling all former wills & testaments by me at any time heretufore made & desiring that this alone be my last will & testament First I require that all my just debt & funeral expences be paid by my executors hereinafter named out of my estate after all the debts & expences aforsaid are paid & discharged I give and devise as follows. Second to my son Isaac Cronise I give & devise on fee simple to him his heirs and assigns forever all that tract or parcel of land whereon he now resides containing one hundred and thirty acres more or less, which tract of land I purchased from Nicholas Holtz Jr. as will appear by reference to his deed to me duly recorded in Frederick County Court which said tract of land I devise in fee simple as aforesaid to said Isaac Cronise on the following conditions to wit, that he the said Isaac Cronise or lawful representatives pay or cause to be paid to my daughters Sophia Worman wife of Andrew Worman, and Mary Cronise the sum of one thousand dollars current money each in the following payments that is to say, five hundred dollars to Sophia Worman within one year from the day of my death without interest, five hundred dollars without interest to Mary Cronise in two years from the day of my decease, five hundred dollars to Sophia Worman without interest in three years from my decease, & to Mary Cronise five hundred dollars without interest in four years from the day of my death, no interest to be paid on the aforesaid sums of money until they respectively fall due & then interest to be paid unless the principal sums are paid up as herein before stated. Third I give and devise to my son Joseph Cronise his heirs and assigns forever, the plantation on which I now reside, containing about one hundred and thirty acres more or less and I give, devise and bequeath said plantation or farm to my said son Joseph in fee simple on the following conditions viz. that he pay or cause to be paid to my said daughter Sophia Worman five hundred dollars without interest as aforesaid within five years from the day of my death to my daughter Mary five hundred dollars without interest as aforesaid within six years from my decease, five hundred dollars without interest as aforesaid to my said daughter Sophia within seven years from my death & to my daughter Mary five hundred dollars without interest as aforesaid within eight years from my decease -- and I do hereby expressly bind the two afosaid plantations, into whose hands soever they may come for the entire payment of the legacies hereinbefore enumerated & specified, & hereby make & constitute them leins on said tracts of land until all of the said legacies are fully paid up, that is to say the land devised to my son Isaac is bound for the legacies specified in the clause devising the land to him, & the land devised to my son Joseph is in like manner bound for the monies therein specified Fourth I give and devise to my son Joseph & to my daughter Mary equally share & share alike all my personal property of every kind sort or description which I may have at my death after the debts & funeral expences are paid, to be by them fairly & equitably divided among & by themselves, but if they cannot agree as to the division then I desire my executors to devide the same for them fairly & justly. And lastly, I constitute and appoint my sons Samuel Cronise, Frederick Cronise & Isaac Cronise executors of this my last will & testament. In testimony whereof I hereto set my hand & affix my seal this fourteenth day of January in the year of our Lord 1840. John Cronise [seal] signed sealed published & declared by the testator as his last will & testament who in our presence & in the presence of each other signed sealed & declared the same to be his last will & testament L. P. W. Balch Joseph Stouffer John Wachter [registrar's note dated 29 December 1847] I John Cronise having executed my will & testament on the fourteenth day of January 1840, and being desirous to make an alteration so as the more effectually secure my devices, I make this codicil to my said will, whereas I am security for Andw. D. Worman the husband of my daughter Sophia, I order & direct that my said daughter's legacy under said will is to be subject to the payment of the money for which I am security for her husband, and that if my estate or I myself shall have to pay any part of such money, the same is to be deducted from the money that my sons Isaac and Joseph are directed to pay to my said daughter Sophia. In witness that the foregoing is a codicil to my last will and testament I hereto subscribe my name & affix my seal this second day of February 1843. John Cronise [seal] signed sealed pronounced and declared by John Cronise as a codicil to his last will and testament in my presence, who in his presence and at his request have subscribed my name as a witness thereto William Reed [registrar's note dated 21 December 1847] Whereas I, John Cronise of Frederick County being of sound mind and memory, do make this as a second codicil to my last will and testament, the said will bearing date on the fourteenth day of January 1840, and the first codicil thereto bearing date the second day of February eighteen hundred and forty three, and now make this second codicil thereto on the twentieth day of April eighteen hundred and forty three, whereas my son Samuel is bound as security at this time for Andrew D. Worman, the husband of my daughter Sophia, and whereas by my first codicil, I directed that if my estate, or I myself should have to pay any money in consequence of my becoming security for the said Andrew D. Worman, such sum is to be deducted from the amount bequeathed by my said will to my said daughter Sophia, and I do now direct that if I shall during my life or my executors shall out of my personal estate pay any money for said Andrew D. Worman in consequence of my said securityship, my personal estate is to be remunerated out of the first money coming due to my daughter Sophia, under my said will, anything contained in my said will to the contrary notwithstanding, and deeming it an act of strict justice to secure my son Samuel so far as I have it in my power against loss in consequence of any liability at this time as security for the said Andrew D. Worman, I order and direct that after my estate shall have been remunerated as hereinbefore provided out of the two thousand dollars bequeathed by my said will to my daughter Sophia, the balance of said legacy shall be paid by my sons Isaac and Joseph to remunerate my son Samuel for such loss as he shall or may sustain on account of securityship now existing for the said Andrew D. Worman, or so much thereof as shall be necessary, and such payments shall be a discharge from all liability / to the extent of such payments / to the said Sophia any provision to the contrary in my said will notwithstanding. In witness that this is a second codicil to my said last will and testament I hereto subscribe my name and affix my seal. John Cronise [seal] signed sealed and published by John Cronise therein named as a second codicil to his last will and testament in our presence, who at his request in his presence and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as witnesses thereto John H. Fout David Nusbaum John Bitson [registrar's note dated 19 December 1847] [registrar's noted dated 21 December 1847] {Frederick Co. MD Wills liber GME3 pp. 283-285}