Will of John STULL (1749); Frederick County, MD Contributed to the USGenWeb Archives by Sharon L. Casteel http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ********************************************************* A-23 In the Name of God, Amen. The seventeenth Day of April in the in the [sic] year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and forty nine. I, John Stull of Frederick County & Province of Maryland, Millar [?], being in perfect Mind & Memory thanks be given to Almighty God therefore; and calling to Mind the Mortality of my Body & knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die, do make and appoint this my Last Will and Testament, that is to say principally and first of all I give & recommend my Soul unto the Hands of God that gave it, and for my Body I recommend it to the Earth to be buried in a Cristian Like & [illegible] Manner, nothing doubting but at the general Resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mighty power of God! & as touching what worldly Estate it hath pleased God to bless me with in this Life I give devise & dispose of the same in the following manner and Form Imprimis I give and bequeath unto Martha Stull my beloved Wife, one half of all my Stock of Cattle Horses Mares Hoggs and Sheep, and all my Household Stuff as Bedding and all Furthiture belonging to my House, and further I do give unto her my beloved Wife, for during her Term of Life one half of my Plantation whereon I now live called Whiskey & one half of my Mills & Stills hereon, allowing her to be at hone half the whole Expence in keeping them in good Repair; and also Ido give unto her for and during Term of Life as aforesaid one half of my Sleaves (excepting what I shall here of intirely dispose of to my Children) to be in her service and at her Command. & at what Time it may please God that she lives & that she shall not have it in her power, in any advantages that may to her appear to dispose of them any other way, neither, slaves nor premises, than or by in her use on that plantation called Whiskey, and at her Decease that they viz the Slaves & premisses shall be the property of my son Daniel Stull and further I give unto her my beloved Wife, all the Children from the Date hereof that Negro Nan & Negro Hester will bear & have to be here own and intirely at her disposal as she thinks proper. Item I do give and bequeath to my Son Daniel Stull, all that Tract of Land called Whiskey with all the additions ever by me hereunto laid, with all the Improvements and appurtances thereto belonging Mill & Stilles& all whatsoever and me half of my Stock of Cattle, Horses,Mares, Hoggs and Sheep and all my Plow Sakeling [?] & axes Hoes Waggon & Waggon Sakeling and all Tools whatsoever that are properly mine on that Plantation called Whisky, and all the money due to me at my Decease I do give to him. And further I do give to him Negro Peter & Negro Nan, which I do will & have given on half tehir Labour to my Wife: also on half of Whisky with the appurtenances thereto belonging and at her Decease to be sit interely his; unless which it is not in his power, to part with dispurse or disposeof any of them vis. the Slaves Mill or Stills leaving this Charge to my Son Daniel and oblidging him to my Sons Jacob & Isaac to give Learning at his own Expence so far as they shall beaccomplisht for Country Business, and further and obligation on him that he shall pay the Sum of four hundred pounds Currancy of Maryland, as hereafter shall dispose of & to be raised out of that part of my Estate which I have given to him. Item I do give and bequeath unto my Son John Stull all that Tract of Land called Slow Spring and all that Tract called Olavasant State, both Lands laying to gether & situate in the Waters of Anteatum, on a Branch thereof called Beaver Creek, appointing him to pay to my Son Issac at teh age of twenty-one years one hundred pounds current money of Maryland, also I do give to my son John all the Improvements on the aforesaid Land Mill and all other appurtainances thereto belogntion, and I do give to him Negro Jam which shall become his property at the year of twenty one of his age, and that my son Daniel shall at his own expence take such proper methods to accertain it to him & his Heirs at that age viz. twenty one years, that is he shall have the use of the said Lands promised & Negro from henceforth, but that Daniel shall not make it over to him untill he is twenty-one years old and at that age he shall give him two Cows & Calves & Ninety [?] Head of Hoggs on the said Place. Item I do give unto my Son Jacob a Negro Girl called Hester & one hundred Pounds current money of Maryland, which Negro & Sum of money is to be delivered to him & paid at the twenty one years of his age by my Son Daniel, this hundred pounds being part of that above mentioned that Daniel is to pay. Wherefore he shall pay my son Jacob Stull at the age aforesaid the the said one hundred pound. Item I do give to my Son Isaac fifty pounds current money payable from my Son Daniel to him at the year of twenty one of his age being part of the Sum he is to pay as aforesaid. Item I do give to my Daughter Mary Groathouse one Shilling Sterling to be levied of my Estate & paid by my Exr. on the Day of my Burial. Item I do give to my Daughter Elizabeth Johnson one Shilling Sterling to be levied of my Estate & paid by my Exr. on the Day of my Burial. Item I do give to my Daughter Cathrine Swearingham fifty pounds courant Money payable from my Son Daniel to her thirty days after the Day of my Burial. Item I do give to my Daughter Margaret Stull one Negro Girl called Jean and fifty pounds Courrant Money payable from my Son Daniel to her at the sixteenth year of her age. Item I do give to my Daughter Susannah Stull one Negro Girl called Jenny & fifty pounds Courrant Money payable from my Son Daniel to her at the sixteenth year of her age. Item I do give and bequeath to Rachel Groathouse daughter of Mary Groathouse, fifty pounds Current Money payable from my Son Daniel to her at the sixteenth year of her age. Item I do give to Martha Johnson Daughter of Elizabeth Johnson fifty pounds Courrant Money payable from my Son Daniel to her at the sixteenth year of her age, being the Residue of the four hundred pounds above said that Daniel is to pay. And I do hereby constitute ordain & appoint my son Daniel Stull my whole & sole executor of all my Sestate both real & personal utterly disallowing revoking & disannulling all and every other Testaments Wills & Sigaries by me in any wise before this Time named and bequeathed. Ratifying & confirming this and no other to be my Last Will & Testament In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my Hand & Seal the Day & Year above written. [signed] Signed Signed Sealed published pronounced & declared by the said John Stull as his Last Will & Testament in the presence of us the Subscribers. Jas Smith, Jos Smith, Thomas Hog