Somerset County MD Archives Wills.....Dixon, Ambrose April 7, 1686 ************************************************ 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: Osiris Johnson sigh@hawaii.rr.com January 6, 2007, 2:25 am Source: Maryland Archives Written: April 7, 1686 In the name of God Amen. The seventh day of April in the year of Our Lord one thousand six hundred & eighty six. I Ambrose Dixon of Somerset County in the province of Maryland planter, being sick in body but of good & perfect memory, thanks be unto Almighty God, and calling to remembrance the uncertain state of this tennpeting life, and that all flesh must yield unto death when it shall please god to call, doe make constitute ordaine and declare this my Last Will and Testament in manner & form following revoaking and adnulling be these presents all and every testament and testaments, will and wills heretofore by me made and declared either by word or writting and this to be taken only for my last will & testament and none other. And first being penitent and sorry from the bottom of my hart for my sins past most humbly desiring forgiveness for the sins, I give and commit my soul unto Allmight god my Saviour and redemer in whom and by the merits of Jesus Christ. I trust and believe assuredly to be saved and to have full remission and forgiveness of all my sins and that my soul with my body at the day of Resurrection shall rise again with joy & through the merits of Christs death and passion possess and inhabit the Kingdom of heaven prepared for his flesh and chosen. And my body to the Earth to be burried decently at the discretion of my Executrix hereafter named and now for the setting of my Teporall Estate aand such goods and debts as it hath pleased god fare above my deserts, to bestow upon me. I do order give and dispose the same in manner after following, that is to say first I will that all those debts & dueties that I owe in right or conscience to any manner of person or persons whatsoever shall be well and contented and paid or ordained to be paid within convient time after my decease by my executrix hereafter named. I give and bequeath unto my daughter Elizabeth the wife of Robert Dukes after my wifes decease one negro woman called Betty Ginncy & her increase to have & hold to her the said Elizabeth & to her heirs & assigns for ever. Also I give unto my said daughter Elizabeth one horse which has her husband Robert Dukes lately ???? for me to have and to hold to her the sd Eliz:a for her heirs & assignes for ever, to be deliv:d to her or order presently after my decease. I give and bequeath unto my grand child Thomas Potter son of Henry Potter one cow & calf to be for his use presently after my decease to have & to hold the sd cow and cow calf with there future increase of both male & female for ever. Also I give & bequeath unto my sd grand child Thomas Potter one mare & her female increase to have and to hold for ever presently after my decease. Also I give & bequeath unto my said grand child Thomas Potter one young female negro to be deliv:d after my wifes decease & then to have & to hold the said negro & increase to him the said Thomas Potter his heirs and assigns for ever. And further it is my will and desire that the sd Thomas Potter be put to school there to learn reading writing & arithmatick. I give and bequeath unto my son in law Edmond Beauchamp one cow and calf & there increase to have & to hold the said cow & calf & there increase both male & female to him the said Edmond Beauchamp his heirs & assigns for ever to be delivered to him or his ordr presently after my decease. Also I give and bequeath unto my said son in law Edmond one young black mare called Jenny ye younger to have & to hold the said mare & her increase both male & female to him ye said Edmond his heirs & assigns for ever presently after my decease to be deliv:d to him ye said Edmond his order. I give and bequeath unto Elizabeth Willson the side of George Willson of the county of Somerset planter one mare of a bay coull:r with a white starr in her forehead called the name Jenny to be delivered presently after my decease to have and to hold the said mare & her increase both male & female to her the sd Elizabeth his heirs and assigns for ever. I give and bequeath unto my wifes son Henry Pedington one negro girl about ten yrs old to have & to hold the said negro & her increase to him the said Henry Pedington his heirs & assigns for ever to be delivered presently my wifes ______ decaease. I give and bequeath unto __mes Brown of this county planter one thousand pounds of good merchantable tobacco in cash to be paid to the said James Brown or his assigns at or before the ________ of december next after my decease. I give and bequeath ____ all my goods chattles & credits belonging unto my loving wife Mary Dixon during her natural life and the plantation I now _______________ that my son Thomas Dixon now live upon all ___ provided and accepted and rightly to be understood that whatsoever state of goods chattels. (Transcribers note: The underscores in the preceeding paragraphs are blank spaces left in the will in the Maryland archives microfilm that I am looking at rendered in a pdf. I believe that Ambrose wrote his will at home and once he died it was taken to the county clerk and copied into the will book which I am looking at. It doesn't look like the ink ran out in the will book. My guess is that the original will was damaged in some way so that parts were unreadable and left as blank spaces in this book. Which is very sad becase after the last paragraph there is a large gap in the will book which could contain about 15 lines of text.) and I the said Ambrose Dixon do by these presentt constitute ordain and appoint my well beloved wife Mary Dixon my whole & sole executric. And lastly deposeing trust & confidence on my son Thomas Dixon my son in law Edmond Beauchamp my son in law Robert Rukes & my friend George Willson Senr of this county I do hereby ordain appoint & constitute the said Thomas Dixon, Edmond Beauchamp, Robert Dukes & George Willson ___ sees in trust for to see that this my last will & testament be duly & truly executed & performed. In conformation & full assurance of the truth above written that that is my last will and testament I the said Ambrose Dixon have hereunto set my hand & fixed my seale as the witnesses the day & year first above written Signed sealed & deliv:d by Ambrose Dixon as his last will } his & testament the seventh day of April in ye year of Our Lord } Ambrose AD Dixon Seal God one thousand sixh hundred & eighty six } mark Stephen Horsey Samuel Horsey John Atkins And further my absolute desire is ye if any of my said children son & sons in law ??? Thomas Dixon, Thomas Cottingham, Edmond Beauchamp, Robert Dukes, John Richard & Henry Potter shall in any wise trouble or molest illegally my beloved wife my executrix Mary Dixon in or about or concerning this my lawt will & testament that then their & each of those shares given & bequeathed by this my last will & testament to be void & of none effect & to be devided equally amonsgst the rest of my said sons ye causes no disturbanc. as witness my hand & seal the day and year aforsaid Testes Stephen Horsey John Heath his his James B Brown Ambrose AD Dixon Seal mark mark Somerset County } In Maryland } Memorandum that this day was proved by the oaths of Stephen Horsey, Samuel Horsey, John Atkins & John Heath the witness mentioned testament of Ambrose Dixon, deceased as also was ministered unto Mary Dixon the oath of Executrix, given under my hand this tenth day of August Anno Dom 1688 David Browne This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mdfiles/ File size: 8.3 Kb