Montgomery County MD Archives Wills.....Elizabeth LYNN, May 10, 1790 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/md/mdfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Catherine Ball cathy.ball@comcast.net July 27, 2008, 11:38 am Source: Montgomery County Register Of Wills, Msa C1142-5, Accession No. 16,543-4-1/82; Box 4, Folder 14, Maryland State Archives Written: May 10, 1790 Recorded: September 29, 1803 Will of Elizabeth Lynn of Montgomery County, dated 10 May 1790, proved 29 Sep 1803. Montgomery County Register of Wills, MSA C1142-5, accession no. 16,543-4-1/82; Box 4, Folder 14, Maryland State Archives. Transcribed by Catherine N. Ball, Ph.D., 27 July 2008. [page 1/3] The Last Will and Testament of Elizabeth Lynn Received this 29th Day of September 1803 and proved by Walter Cade Williams William P. Williams Recorded in Liber E folio 105. one of the records for the registers office for Montgomery county orphans Court Test Samuel Turner [senr?] Regr of Wills for Montgomery County [page 2/3] In the Name of God Amen I Elizabeth Lynn of Mont- gomery County being aged and infirm but of sound mind and memory considering the Certainty of Death and the Uncertainty of the time thereof do make and publish this my last will and testament in Manner following First I give and bequeath unto my Son David Lynn his Heirs and Assigns for ever all my personal Estate of what Nature or Kind so ever. Secondly I do hereby constitute and appoint my said Son David Lynn the Executor of this my last Will and Testament hereby revoking all former Wills and Testaments and declaring this to be my last Will and Testament and do hereby request my said Executor that my above mentioned Estate should not be appraised. - In witness I have here unto Set my Hand and Seal this tenth Day of May Seventeen hundred and ninety Signed Sealed published and declared by the said Elizabeth Lynn as her last Will and Testament in the Presence of us and Signed by us as Witnesses in her Presence at her request and in the Presence of each other [signed] Walter Cade Williams [signed] William P Williams [signed] Elisabeth Lynn [seal] [page 3/3] The State of Maryland, Montgomery County to Wit, on the 29th Day of September anno Domini one Thousand Eight hundred and three, There came Walter Cade Williams and William P. Williams all the two subscribing Witnesses to the within last will and Testament of Elizabeth Lynn late of Montgomery County Deceased, and severally made Oath on the Holy Evangels of Almighty God, that they did see the Testatrix herein named sign and seal this Will, and that they heard her publish pronounce and Declare the same to be her last Will and Testament and that at the time of her so doing she was to the best of their apprehension of sound and Disposing mind memory and understanding and that they respectively subscribed their names to this Will as Witnesses in the presence and at the request of the Testatrix, and in the presence of each other have subscribed their names hereto Certified by Samuel Turner [senr?] Regr of Wills for Montgomery County orph Court Additional Comments: Elizabeth Lynn was the widow of Judge David Lynn of Montgomery County. His estate inventory was filed December 1779. Their son Capt. David Lynn removed to Allegany County after the Revolutionary War and built "Rose Hill" in Cumberland. This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mdfiles/ File size: 3.6 Kb This file is located at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/md/montgomery/wills/lynn-e.txt