Will of John TUCKER, Sr. (ca. 1709/10); Kent County, Maryland

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               The Will of John Tucker, Sr. of Kent Co., MD
                         Liber 3, folio 16-17
                         ca. 1709/10
               

In the name of God Amen, This second day of March in the year of our Lord 1708/09 , I John
Tucker in Kent County in the province of Maryland, Blacksmith, being very sick and weak of
body but of perfect mind and memory thanks be given to God therfor calling unto my mind the
mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed for all men to die do make & ordain this my
last will and testament that is to say, principally and first of all I give & recommend my Soul into
the hands of God that gave it, and for my body I recommend it to the earth to be buried in a
Christian like & decent manner at the discretion of my Executor nothing doubting but at the
general resurrection I shall relate the fame again by the mighty power of God, and as touching
such worldly estate where with it hath pleased God to bless one in this life I give devise and
dispose of the same in the following manner & form
-------   Item.  I give and bequeath unto my well beloved son John Tucker that plantation that I
now live on with one just half of the land belonging to the said plantation by him freely to be
possessed and enjoyed.
-------   Item.  I give and bequeath unto my well beloved daughter Armarall Tucker the other half
of the land belonging to the said plantation above mentioned and after my lawful & just debts is
payed, the moveables to be equally be divided between my son John Tucker & my daughter
Armarall.  
-------   And I likewise constitute make and ordain my dear and well beloved wife Sarah Tucker &
John Long my only and Sole Executors of this my last Will and Testament and I do hereby utterly
disallow revoke & disannul all and every other Testaments wills and legacies bequests and
Executors by me in anyways before this time named willed and bequeathed, ratifying and
confirming this and no other to be my last will and testament.   In Witness wherof I have heunto
Set my hand and Seal the day & year first above written. ------  John ~ Tucker      Seal

Signed Sealed Published & pronounced & declared by the Said John Tucker as his last will &
testament in the presents of us the Subscribers first, Thos. Brewart, John x Johns, Nichs. v
Barkley. ----- June 7th. 1709.  John Johns & Nichs. Barkley two of the witness to the within will
made Oath that they Saw the within testator Sign seal publish and declare the within instrument to
be his last will & testament & that he was of perfect sense & memory to the best of their
knowledge & before me ----------   Thos. Smyth    D. Corsy.(?)   Coun.      Kent--------------