Will of Frederich TANEY (1823) Frederick County, Maryland

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Will Docket - H.S. - 3 - Folio 413

In the name of God Amen I Frederich Taney of Frederich County in the State of 
Maryland being in perfect health of body (though bothered with flesh)but 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 better prepared to leave this world when it shall 
please God to call one home I do therefore make and publish this my last will 
and testament in manner & form following. 

First and principally I commit my soul into the hand of Almighty God that gave 
it and my body to the earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my 
executors hereinafter named and after my debts and funeral charges are paid I 
desire and bequeath as follows = I give devise and bequeath unto my beloved wife 
Elizabeth Taney my home plantation whereon I now live containing one hundred and 
seventy six acres of land also one lot of land containing one hundred eighteen 
acres (adjoining the old quarter) to her my beloved wife Elizabeth in fee simple 
to dispose of as she thinks proper. I also give and bequeath unto my beloved 
wife Elizabeth my negro girl Appolonia two horses five cows eight hogs, eight 
sheep (her choice of my stock)two fether beds bedstead & bed clothes thereto 
belonging - desk beaurow clock & case corner cubboars and all the crockery and 
tea ware therein two tables six chairs stove and pipe kitchen dresser and as 
much of the kitchen furniture as she may choose to take large copper kettle and 
one iron kettle all the vessels belonging to the Spring house and such of the 
tubs and buckets as she may choose to receive also all the cloth linning linsey 
cotton & cotton stripe and all the thread yarn & flax at the time of my death - 
two set of horse geers complete one plough one harrow log chain two hoes two 
axes one grubbing hoe mall & two wedges my wearing apparal five hundred weight 
of bacon two hundred weight of smoked beef all the grain of every kind growing 
(on the property devised to her) at the time of my death, and a sufficient 
quantity of grain for family use and her stock until such time she may make a 
crop on the property devised to her or secure one that may be growing = all my 
books & vegetables for cooking & the sum of sixteen hundred dollars in current 
money to dispose of as she thinks proper - also wheat fan
I give and bequeath unto my five grandchildren born of my daughter Sally by her 
first husband Frederich Warner namely Elizabeth Warner Catherine Warner Ann 
Warner Frederick Warner and Fanny Warner the sum of two thousand dollars to be 
equally divided between them share and share alike. But should either of them 
die before they arrive to lawful age such part or parts to be equally divided 
amongst the survivors or survivor and the said legacies to be paid by my 
Executors at the end of one year after my death or as they respectively arrive 
to the age sixteen years the female and the male twenty one years. I give and 
bequeath unto my two grand children by my daughter Elizabeth namelly to 
Elizabeth Glime and Sally Glime the sum of two thousand dollars current money to 
be equally divided between them share and share to paid to them by my executors 
when they respectively arrive to the age of sixteen years But should either of 
them die before they arrive to the age of sixteen years the survivor to have the 
whole sum and should they both die before they arrive to the age of sixteen 
years then and in that case the said legacy to be equally divided betwist my 
five children namely Jacob - John - David - George & Catherine share and share 
alike - all the remaining part of my Estate real personal ? ? I direct that the 
same be sold by my executors at public or private sale as they may think most 
advantageous to my heirs and equally divided betwist my five children namely 
Jacob Taney John Taney, David Taney, George Taney and Catherine Addlesperger 
share and share alike. And lastly I do hereby nominate constitute and appoint my 
wife Elizabeth Taney and my friend William Durbin Executors of this my last will 
and testament and I hereby authorise and empower my said Executors to convey by 
deed all my real estate to the purchases or purchaser in a full and ample a 
manner as I could now do revoking and annulling all former wills by me made 
ratifying and confirming this and none other to be my last will and testament In 
witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this twenty 
second day of February in the year Eighteen hundred and twenty three Fred Taney 
(Seal)
Signed Sealed published and declared by Frederick Taney the above named Testator 
as and for his last will and testament in presence of us who at his request and 
in his presence and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as 
witnesses thereto. John Roop Peter Royer Nicholas Durbin

Frederick County, August 15th 1825 there came William Durbin and made oath on 
the Holy Evangaly of Almighty God, that the foregoing instrument of writing is 
the true whole will and testament of Frederick Taney late of Frederick County, 
decd. that has come to his hands and possession and that he knows of no other. 
Test, G. M. Eichelberger, Reg.
Frederick County, August 15th 1825

Then came Peter Royer one of the subscribing witnesses to the foregoing last 
will and testament of Frederick Taney, late of Frederick County, decd. and 
sincerely and solemnly declared and affirmed, and Nicholas Durbin also one of 
the subscribing witnesses to said will, and made oath on the Holy Evangaly of 
Almighty God, that they did see the Testator therein named sign and seal ? 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 
that they did also see John Roop the other subscribing witness sign his name as 
a witness to said will in the presence and at the request of the Testator and 
all in the presence of each other. Test. G. M.Eichelberger, Reg.

To the Honorable, the Judges of the Orphans Court of Frederick County August 
29th 1825
I Elizabeth Taney one of the Executors appointed in the last will and testament 
of Frederick Taney late of Frederick County, deceased, do hereby refuse to act 
as one of the Executors to said will be virtue of said appointment and do 
therefore renounce all my right title and claim to said Executorship 
accordingly. As witness my hand this 29th day of August 1825 Elizabeth (her x 
mark) Taney
Test. William Steiner