Will of Hynson Downes, from  Register of Wills, Queen Anne's County, Maryland

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Will of Hynson Downes, from  Register of Wills, Queen Anne's County, Maryland

(This will was very difficult to read.  I tried not to take 
license with what I was reading, and preferred to leave
blank those words I could not read.)
 
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In the name of God Amen, I Hynson Downes of Queen Anne's 
County State of Maryland being weak in body but
of sound and desposing mind and memory considering 
the certainty of death and the uncertainty of the time
there of do therefore make and publish this my last 
will and testament in manner and form following that is to
say.  First I commit my soul into the hands of almighty 
God and my body to be decently buried at the descretion
of my Executor herein after named and after my Just debts 
are paid. I devise and bequeath as follows.
 
Item.  I give and bequeath to my wife Mary Downes one 
third part of all my Estate real and personal during her
natural life and no longer and that __ ____ no  ___ of 
then  ____  or said estate.
    
Item.  I give and bequeath unto my son Samuel Downes 
all my tracts of land lying and being in the  _____ (
_ount_a___, countyseat?) cal'd [called] Shoreditch  
_____ ? (this ? is in the document) and part of a tract called
"Acaddia" contain fifty acres more or less to him and his 
heirs lawfully begotten of his body and if he should die
without heirs I give and bequeath to the above mentioned 
tracts of lands to my son Philemon Downes and  his
heirs forever.
 
Item. I give and bequeath to my son Philemon Downes 
the sum of forty pounds to be paid unto him by my
Executor to be hereafter named in anuel (annual) payments
 that is to say three pounds six schillings and eight
pence per years untill untill (repeated in original 
document) the above forty pounds is discharged or in case my
widow should die before the forty pounds is paid, in that 
case his is to be paid five pounds per year untill he
receives the aforesaid sum of fourty pounds year.
 
Item.  I give and bequeath unto my daugher Ann Downes 
the sum of fourty pounds to be paid unto her by my
Executor in anual payments that is when she arrives at the 
age of sixteen years.  She is to receive three pounds six
schllings and eight pence per year ___ ___ my widow 
should die before she recieves the above sum in that case
she is to recieve five pounds a year untill the fourty 
pounds is paid.
 
Item.  My will is that my personal property after my wife's 
thirds is taken out be equally divided among my three
children Samuel Downes, Philemon Downes, Ann Downes.  
And of this my last will and testament I do hereby
appoint my son Samuel Downes my Executor, revoking and 
annulling all former wills by me heretofore made.
 
In testimony whereof I have hereinto set my hand and 
affixed my seal this twenty second day of March Eighteen
Hundred and four.
 
Signed and published and declared in the prescence --- 
(of?) Hynson Downes (seal)
 
Tests
   Pete Denney  George Denney
   Phil Green
 
Queen Ann's County,  ___ (?)
October 30th 1804  Then came Samuel Downes and made 
oath on the holy Evangels of Almighty God that the
foregoing is the true and whole last will and testament 
of Hynson Downes of Queen Annes County deceased. 
Wm. {H. or A.?) Nicholson Reg;QA County

Queen Ann's County, ___ (?)
October 30th 1804  Then came Philemon Green and made 
oath on the holy Evangels of almighty God that he did
see the testator herein named sign and seal this will 
that he heard him publish pronounce and declare the same to
be his last will and testament that at the time of his 
so doing he was to the best of his apprehensions of sound
and disposing mind memory and understanding that he 
subscribed his ___  and ___ (name and seal?)
Peter Denny and George Denny sign their name as witnesses 
to the said will in the presence and at the request of
the testator and in the presence of each other.
       Wm. __ (H. or A.?) Nicholson Reg. QA County