Will: James Countiss, 1731, Queen Anne Co. MD

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MD State Archives, Volume 20, pp. 412-414, SR4414


In the Name of God Amen. The Twenty Ninth of December in the Year of our Lord 
One Thousand Seven Hundred Thirty and One, I James Countiss of Queen Anne County 
in the Province of Maryland Planter being very sick and weak in body, but of 
perfect Mind and Memory, Thanks be given unto God therefore Calling unto mind 
the Mortality of my Body, and that it is appointed for all Men once to Dye Do 
make & Ordain this my Last Will and Testament That is to Say principally and 
first of all, I give and Recommend my Soul into the Hands of God that gave it, 
and for my body I recommend it to ye Earth to be buried in a Christian like and 
Decent Manner at the Discretion of my Executors &c &c nothing doubting but at 
the Generall Resurrection I Shall Receive the Same again by the mighty Power of 
God. And as Touching Such Worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless 
me in this Life, I give and dispose of ye Same in the following Manner and form.
  Imprimis I give and bequeath unto my Son Peter Countiss my new dwelling 
plantatn being part of a Tract of Land Called Recsom Planes, and to ye Value of 
two Shills in ye Moveables.
  Item. I Bequeath & give unto Rebekah Vanderford the Value Twenty Shillings. I 
give & bequeath unto my Sons James & William Countiss a Tract of Land Called 
Dublin Lying in T. County between the head of Choptank River and the Land Called 
Old Town beginning at a red Oak Marked with Twelve Notches viz. four and four 
Opposite and Two and Two opposite and Stands by the East Side of the Road that 
leads from Bagges Containing 300 Acres to be Equally Divided between James & 
William, I Likewise give and bequeath unto my Son James Countiss a Hand Melt and 
Two Pewter Dishes - And likewise to William a Horse Colt and Two Pewter Dishes. 
I give and bequeath unto my Daughters Catharine Rachel, Hannah and Sarah 
Countiss ye remaining part of what is left to be equally Divided amongst them
  Item. I give and bequeath unto my well beloved Wife my new Dwelling Plantation 
During her Life whom I Likewise make & Ordain to be my Sole Executrix in this my 
Last Will and Testament.
Signed Sealed & Delivered          James Countiss (seal)
  in Presence of us
  James McCleane
  John Williams
  William Boyd
                                         Annext to ye aforegoing Will
                                         was the following Probate thus
                                         Written fst.
  May 4th 1732. Came James Mackleane John Williams and Wm Boyd, the Subscribing 
Witnesses to ye aforegoing Will and made Oath before me ye Subscriberon ye Holy 
Evangelists of Almighty God that they Saw the Testator James Countis Sign & 
Seale and heard him Publish and Declare the Same as his last Will and Testament 
and at the time of his So doing he was to ye best of their Knowledge and 
apprehension of Sound and Desposing mind and Memory And that they ye afsd James 
Mackcleane John Williams & William Boyd Subscribed the Said Will as Witnesses in 
the presents of the Testator
                                       W. Hemstey Dty Com