Montgomery County MD Archives Wills.....Gray, Matthias January 29, 1775
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Source: Montgomery Co., Md Abstracts 1776-1794
Written: January 29, 1775
Recorded: June 17, 1775

LWT of Matthias Grey of Frederick County in the Province of Maryland Planter 
being infirm in body but in perfect health do make and ordain this my Last 
Will and Testament in manner following: that is to say I recommend my Soul 
into the hand of God almighty that gave it, and my Body I recommend to the 
Earth to be decently interred at the discretion of my Executrix, and touching 
such worldly Estate; which it hath pleased God to bless me with I will and 
bequeath in the following manner and form -
ITEM - I will and bequeath this plantation I now live on called GREYS NECK 
unto my dearly beloved wife SARAH GREY during her natural life and after her 
death to my two sons BENJAMIN and ADIN GREY
ITEM - I bequeath unto my two sons WILLIAM and JEREMIAH GRAY a tract of land 
called GRAY'S MEADOWS to be divided between them in manner following that is 
sixty acres of said tract to WILLIAM and the remaining part thereof to 
JEREMIAH.
ITEM - I bequeath my personal part of Estate in manner and form following viz. 
One third thereof to my beloved wife SARAH GRAY, one third to my son ADIN, and 
the remaining third to my daughter MARY
ITEM - I bequeath unto my son WILLIAM 5 shillings to be raised out of my 
personal estate
ITEM - I bequeath unto my son JEREMIAH 5 shillings to be raised as above
ITEM - I bequeath unto my son BENJAMIN 5 shillings to be raised as above
Lastly I do, make and constitute SARAH my said wife Executrix of this my last 
Will and Testament, and I do hereby utterly, disallow, revoke and disannul all 
and every other testaments by me in any wise before named, written or 
bequeathed ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my Last Will and 
Testament.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty ninth day 
of January in the year of our Lord God, one thousand seven hundred and seventy 
five. S/Matthias Gray

Signed sealed published and pronounced by the said Matthias Gray as his last 
Will and Testament, in the present of us who in his presence, and the presence 
of each other have hereunto subscribed our names: John PHILLIPS, Philip 
HOCKER, John BUXTON

On the back of the aforegoing Will as thus written viz:  On the 17th day of 
June 1775 came John PHILIPS and John BUXTON two of the subscribing witnesses 
to the aforegoing Will and made oath on the holy evangels of Almighty God that 
they did see the Testator Matthias GRAY sign and seal the said Will and heard 
him publish pronounce and declare the same to be his Last Will and Testament 
and that at the time of his so doing he was to the best of their apprehensions 
of a sound and disposing mind and memory and that also they did see Philip 
HOCKER the other subscribing witness to the said Will sign his name as a 
witness thereto and that they severally subscribed their names as witnesses to 
the said will in the presence of the Testator and in the presence of each 
other.  Sworn before T. Bowles By Cmm'r

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