Will of Joseph WARNICK (1819) Garrett County, Maryland This file was contributed by Walt Warnick ************************************************************************ * 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. ************************************************************************ In the name of God Amen, I Joseph Warnick of Allegany county [Ed note: present- day Garrett County] and State of Maryland do make this my last will and testament hereby revoking all or any will and testament by me hitherto made and executed. In the first place, I commit my soul to Almighty God and entrust my body to be decently interred under the direction of my Executors hereinafter named and after my funeral charges are paid it is my will and desire that all my just debts be paid out of my personal property if sufficient after which charges and expenses and payment of all my debts, I do will and bequeath as follows: First, I give to my wife Sarah Warnick during her life all my real and personal property for her support and maintenance and at her decease to dispose of the personal property hereby divided in such manner as she may think proper and correct. Second, I give to William Robinson who intermarried with my daughter Jane his heirs one dollar in cash of all claims or demand on my estate they having received a full portion of said estate hitherto. Thirdly, I give to James Ross who married my daughter Elizabeth, his heirs and assigns one dollar in cash of all claim upon my estate real and personal. Fourth, I give to my son, John Warnick, one dollar in full of all interest in my estate, real and personal. Fifthly, it is my will and desire that in as much as my son in law William Robinson and his wife Jane; James Ross and his wife Elizabeth and my son John Warnick have received their full proportion of my estate hitherto that they their heirs or assigns shall have no other or further claim upon the same. Sixthly, I give and bequeath to Elizabeth Warnick the illegitimate daughter of my daughter Elizabeth who after married James Ross, Samuel Warnick, Joseph Warnick, William Warnick, James Warnick and Mary Howell who married Elijah Howell after the death of my before mentioned wife Sarah Warnick all my real and personal property in the State of Maryland or elsewhere. Lastly, I hereby constitute and appoint my sons, Samuel Warnick and Joseph Warnick my executors and require of them to execute this my last will and testament having by these presents revoked all other wills and testaments. In witness whereof I have to these presents at my hand and applied my seal on this twenty seventh day of October eighteen hundred and nineteen. Signed, Sealed, published and declared by the said Joseph Warnick to be his last will and testament in presence of us who have subscribed our names as witnesses to the same who saw his execute it together and who together have subscribed ourselves as witness thereto. Joseph Warnick (Seal) Aza Beall Charles Heck Beal Howard