Will of Samuel STAUFFER (1831) Frederick County, Maryland This file was contributed by Mark Ault ************************************************************************ * USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. ************************************************************************ Will of Samuel Stauffer Frederick County, Maryland, Register of Wills Liber GME-2, Folio 292, will dated November 14, 1831, Probated January 29, 1838 In the name of God Amen. I Samuel Stouffer of Frederick County in the state of Virginia, being in perfect health and body and of sound and disposing mind memory and understanding considering the certainty of death and the uncertainty of the time thereof and being desiroces 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 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 herein after named and after my debts and funeral charges are paid, I devise and bequeath as follows. I give and devise unto my natural son Dennis Stouffer, begotten on the body of Eve Sweadner of Frederick County, in the state of Maryland, my lot of ground lying and being in the town of Liberty in Frederick County and State of Maryland known and designated by No. 103 on the plot of said town, to him the said Dennis ???? heirs and assigns for ever as soon as he arrives to the age of twenty one years. It is my will and I hereby direct my Executor hereinafter named, as soon after my decease as possible, to vest and lay out in Bank Stock, two thousand dollars of my estate in any Bank he may think best and the proceeds of the same I hereby give and direct my Executor to pay over to the said Dennis Stouffer as it may come regularly to hand as long as the said Dennis shall live and after the death of the said Dennis, the aforesaid sum of two thousand dollars shall be equally divided, share and share alike, between my brother Joseph Stouffer’s children, to wit, John, Joseph Jr., Henry, Simon, Susan wife of Daniel Kemp, Kitty Ann, and Elizabeth Ann, and my sister Mary’s son, Daniel Doyle of Warren County in the State of Ohio, to them and their heirs and assigns. I give and bequeath the whole and entire residue of my Estate which I think will amount to something upwards of two thousand dollars unto my brother Joseph Stouffer’s children and my sister Mary’s son Daniel Doyle, to wit John Stouffer, Joseph Stouffer Jr., Henry Stouffer, Simon Stouffer, Susan wife of Daniel Kemp, Kitty Ann and Elizabeth Ann, and my sister Mary’s son Daniel Doyle to them their heirs and assigns to be equally divided between them share and share alike. I hereby direct my Executor hereinafter named, as soon after my death as possible shall collect all my monies owing to me, a number of notes and papers are in the hands of my brother Joseph Stouffer and others will most probable be found at the place of my decease wherever that shall take place. And Lastly, I do hereby constitute and appoint my nephew, Joseph Stouffer Jr. herein before named 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 fourteenth day of November in the year of our Lord, one thousand, eight hundred and thirty one. Samuel Stouffer (seal) Signed, sealed published and declared by Samuel Stouffer 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 as witnesses thereto. Abriel Unkefor, Elihu H. Rockwell, Thomas Carr. State of Maryland, Frederick County to wit. On the 25th day of January, 1838, came Joseph Stouffer Sen. and made oath on the holy evangely of almighty God that the foregoing instrument of writing is the true whole will and testament of Samuel Stouffer late of the Borough of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, deceased that hath cometo his hands and possession. That he found the same amongst the papers of said deceased and that he does not know of any others. Test. G. M. Eichelberger, Reg. State of Maryland Frederick County to wit. On the 29th day of January, 1838, came Elihu H. Rockwell, and on the 31st came Thomas Carr and on the day of August following, came Abdiel Unkefor the three subscribing witnesses to the foregoing last will and testament of Samuel Stouffer deceased and mode oath on the holy evangely of almighty God that they did see the testator therein named sign and 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 the same at the request of the testator and in his presence and all in the presence of each other. Test. G. M. Eichelberger, Reg.