Will of Archibald EDMONSTON (1734) Prince George’s County, Maryland

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                          " WILL OF ARCHIBALD EDMONSTONE,SENIOR "
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                              PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY,Maryland
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In the name of God, Amen. 
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I, Archibald Edmonston of Prince George County in the Province of Maryland being in good Health
of body & of sound and perfect mind and Memory,praise therefore be given to Allmighty.
I doe make and ordain this my present Last Will and testament in manner and forme as followeth: 
first, I Commend my Soul into the hands of Allmighty, hopeing that through the Merrits, Death 
and Pashtion of my Saviour, Jesus Christ, to obtaine pardon and forgiveness of all my Sins and
to inheritt Everlasting life, and my Body I committ to the Earth to be decently Buried att the
Discreetion of my Wife, Jane Edmonston, whome I leave and appoint to be my Sole Administratrix
over my whole personall Esteat and as to such temporall Esteat as itt hath pleased God to 
bestow upon me. I give and dispose therrof as followeth. 
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Imprimis, itt is my Will that all my just Debts and funerall Charges be paid without Suite 
of Law or trouble by my administra'x above Mentioned. 
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Item.--I give unto my Son, James Edmonston, all my Wearing apparell. 
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Item.--I give unto my Daughter, Mary Beal, the Sume of ten pounds. 
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Item.--Unto my Daughter, Eleanor Offutt, the sume of ten Pounds. 
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Item.--I give unto my daughter, Ruth (sic). 
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Item.--I give unto my Son, Archibald Edmonston, the sum of twenty Shillings and my Cane. 
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Item.--I give unto my Daughter, Martha Allen, my now Dwelling plantation with the Land thereunto
belonging, itt being part of a tract of Land Dunkell, unto her and her Heirs for Ever, after 
the decease of my Wife, Jane Edmonson. 
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Item.--I give to my Son-in-law, Thomas Allenn, Two hundred Acres of Land to be laid out of
two tracts of Land, the one Called Dear Park, the other Bear Garden Enlarged,to be laid out 
in the Outermost Bounds of the s'd two Tracts to the East North East of the Plantation my 
Son,Ninian Edmonston, formerly lived on and Joyning to my Son, Archibald Edmonson's Land,
to him and his Heirs for ever. 
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Item.--I give unto my Daughter, Allenn, One Negro Man named Samm, and one feather bed and 
furniture.
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Item.--I give unto my Grand Daughter, Jane Allen, One pound, five Shillings to pay for a 
year's Schooling.
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Item.--I give unto my Son, Thomas Edmonson, the remaining part of the two Tracts of Land before
mentioned, Call'd Dear Park and bear Garden Enlarged, and also a tract of Land called the
Goar, being on the Eastern Branch of Potomock, Containing two Hundred Acres and allso a tract
Call'd the Addition to the Goar, containing Sixty Acres with the Improvements on all the
afors'd Lands, and also one Mulato Man named, John or Jock, and one Negroe Girl nam'd Delle,
to him and his heirs for ever. 
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Item.--itt is my Will that, if my Son, Thomas Edmonson, die without heirs of his Body lawfully
begotten, that then, the two parts of the tracts of Land Call'd Dear Park and bear 
Garden Enlarg'd fall to my Son, Archibald Edmonson, and those call'd the Goar and the
Addition to the Goar to my Son, James Edmonson. 
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Item.--I give unto my Dear and Loving wife, Jane Edmonson, One Negroe Man Named, Tony; 
One negroe Woman call'd Moll; one other Negroe Woman call'd Sarah; one other Call'd Clarr; 
also two other Negroe Men call'd Cephas and Ammede, to her and her Heirs for ever. 
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Item.--I give the remaining part of my Personal Esteat to be equally Divided between my Wife,
Jane Edmonson, and my Son, Thomas Edmonson. 
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Item.--itt is my will that the Negroe and Malatta with the Part of the Personal Esteat before
left to my Son, Thomas Edmonson, be kept in the Possession of my Wife, Jane Edmonson,untill 
he arrive att the age of twenty-One years and that he have his Education out of the Labour of
the Negraw and Mulatta Labour, and that the remaining part of the benefitt of their labour 
and the benefitt Accruing on the part of the Personal Esteat left him, be kept in my Wife's 
Possession for him till he arrive att the age of twenty-One years. 
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Item.--itt is my Will that my son, Thomas Edmonson, have the benefitt of his Labour att the 
age of seventeen yeares. 
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Item.--itt is my Will that my Son, James Edmonson, inspect into the Behavior of and Deportment
my Son, Thomas Edmonson, and he be under their Controulment during his Minority. 
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Item.--I give unto Mr. Clement Hill and his Heirs for Ever the other halfe parte or Moyte of
a tract of Land Called Cool Spring Levells, according to the Quantity and Quality of the s'd 
land, the one half of which I have Convey'd by Deed of Gift to my daughter,
Eleanor Offutt. 
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Item.--I do hereby revoak and make Voyd all former Wills by me made, as Witness my hand & Seal
this Thirteenth day of March,One thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty four. 
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                            ARCHIBALD EDMONSTON. [Seal.] 
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                            Probate, June 28th, 1734. 
  Witnesses                    ********************
  George Wells. 
  Samuel White. 
  William Beall. 
  Elizabeth White. 
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