Wills: Last Will and Testament of Peter Hagan (1850): Frederick County, MD Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Fred Hagan Copyright. All Rights Reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ********************************************************* LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF PETER HAGAN Liber TS No 1, Folio s6 Frederick County Court House Frederick, MD. In the name of God amen. I, Peter Hagan, in the county of Frederick, in the state of Maryland, being weak in body, but of sound mind, memory and understanding and being desires of setting my worldly affairs before it shall please God to call me hence, do hereby make and publish this my Last Will and Testament as follows: First, I commit my soul into the hands of Almighty God, and my body to earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my executors hereinafter named, and after my just debts and funeral chares are paid I give and devise as follows: I order and direct my personal property to be sold as soon after my decease as convenient, my negro woman ___ and my boy Jim shall not be sold to any person that will take them out of the state of Maryland; I further order and direct my executors hereafter named to sell my real estate after the expiration of one year after the 1st day of April 1850, and to make deeds for the same, to sell said real estate on such terms as may be thought most advantageous to my estate by said executors. I further order and direct that my son John Hagan shall have the use and occupation of the farm now in his possession for the term of one year after my death without paying any rent for the same, with the right to sow out a crop next fall and culling and sewing the same for his own use, the crop now growing on said the one third shall be paid over to my executors as part of my estate; the above year rent of said farm I give to my said son John in lieu of any claim of debt or expense that he may have been at by making repairs and improvements on said farm; I give and devise all the net proceeds of sale of all my real and personal estate of every description to be equally divided into six parts as follows, I give one sixth part thereof to my son John Hagan; one sixth part thereof to my son Henry Hagan; one sixth part thereof to my son Michael Hagan; one sixth part to my daughter Catherine Ringer and one sixth part thereof to my daughter Macey [could by Mary] Hagan, and the other sixth part thereof I order and direct shall be put in the hands of a trustee appointed by the court, for the use of my son Stephen Hagan's wife and children, the principal to be loaded out by said trustee or invested in some safe manner by order of the court, the interest thereof and no more to be applied to the support of the said Stephen Hagan's wife and children and the receipt of for said interest signed by the said Stephen Hagan and his wife shall be a good release to the trustee. I give and order the said one sixth part of my estate which shall be in the hands of the trustee as aforesaid to be paid over after the death of my son Stephen Hagan to his children share and share alike; I further order and direct my son Henry Hagan to pay over into my estate three hundred dollars, being the amount due from him to me; and lastly I do hereby constitute and appoint my friend Michael McCartney and my son John Hagan my executors of this my Last will and Testament, hereby revoking and annulling all former wills here before made, and acknowledging this and none other to by my Last Will and Testament. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this fifth day of February 1850 His Peter X Hagan Mark Signed, sealed, published and delivered by Peter Hagan to the above named testator as and for his Last Will and Testament in the presence of us, who at his request, in his presence and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names in witness thereto George Smith, Jacob Thomas, John Coblentz of P