Will of Alexander Magruder                     Calvert Co., Md.  10 Feb. 1676

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In the name of God, amen.  This the tenth day of february in the years of our
Lord 1676, I Alexander Magruder being in health of body thanks be to god and
calling me to Remembrance the Uncertaintie of the Transitory life & that all
flesh must yield unto death when it pleased god to call I doe make Constitute
ordaine & declare this my last Will & testament in manner & form following
denouling & pronounceing by this presents all testament & testaments will and
wills hereto fore by me made & declared either by word or writing & this
onely to be taken my Last Will & testament & none other. And first being
sorrie for my Sins from my heart most humbly desireing foregiveness for the
same I give & comit my Soule unto Almighty god my Saviour & Redeemer in whome
& by this merits Jesus Christ I trust & believe assuredly to be saved & to
have full remission & foregiveness of all my sinnes & that my soule with my
body at the day of the resurrection shall rise againe with joy & through the
Merits of Jesus Christ death & passing possess & inherit the Kingdome of
heaven prepared for the Elect Chosen & my body to be buried in such place
where it shall please my Executors hereafter mentioned to poynt.  Now for the
settling my temporall estate & such Chattells & debts as it hath pleased god
far above my deserts to bestow upon me.  I ord'n & give & dispose the same in
manner & forme following that is to say first I will that those debts &
duties which I owe in Right or Conscience to any p'son or p'sons whatsoever
shall well and truely payd in Convenient time after my decease by my
Wellbeloved wife Elizabeth Magruder & James Magruder & Samuell Magruder whom
I I doe leave & appoint & ordaine them my whole Executrix over my whole
Estate. 

Item: I give & bequeath to my loving wife & her three children two thirds of
my personal estate & that plantation that I now live on to my loving wife
Elizabeth Magruder for her lifetime & after her decease to my son Alexander &
my son Nathaniell to them & their heires forever, and if either of them dies
without issue the the longest liver to have it.  The said Land doth Containe
by Patent & Conveyance Eight hundred Acres of land.

Item: I will bequeath to my loving son James Magruder & John Magruder Nine
hundred acres of land lying on the Western branch of Petuxent River held by
two Pattents called Alexandria & Dumblain to them & their heirs.

Item: I will bequeath to my Son Samuel Magruder five hundred acres of land
lying in the Westerne Branch called Good Luck to him & his heires forever.

Item: I will that my son Samuell shall assist my son James when he is minded
for to goe upon his owne, that is for to say to cleare & fence & build as is
done upon Samuell Plantation hafe as much

Item: I will and bequeath the third Part of my personall estate to my three
sons James Samuell & John Magruder & if either of these my three sons dye
without issue what doth belong to him that is deceased to be equally divided
betwixt the other two & they are to have what estate belongeth to them at the
age of Twenty years & to my daughter Elizabeth at the day of her marriage.   

I will & bequeath to my daughter Elizabeth two hundred acres of land called
by the name Cragnigh lying in the Westerne branch of Petuxent River adjoining
to my son Samuell's land her brother & these my sons shall not buy nor sell
not above the value of four hundred pounds of tobacco without the consent of
one of these my Overseers untill they are at the age of twenty five years of
age of this my last Will & testament I request my Well beloved friends Mr.
Nathaniell Truman, Mr. Samuell Taylor, Mr. Ninnian Beale.  I pronouce this my
last Will & Testament whereunto I set my hand & seals the day & year above
written

Test:
Alexander Magruder
James Magruder - John Lane
John (X) Johnson
James (X) Soulivant                                             (original wax seal)
James Guthrey

Original will, Maryland Hall of Records
also Calvert Co. Will Liber 5, fol. 261