Will of Elizabeth DRURY (1814); St. Mary’s County, Maryland

This file was contributed by Judith Burger.

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Elizabeth Drury
Signed: March 18, 1814
Proved: April 11 1820

Elizabeth Drury's
Last Will & Testament
In the Name of God Amen. I Elizabeth Drury of Saint Mary's County in the State 
of Maryland being Sick and weak of body but of sound and disposing mind and 
memory and understanding~~do make this my last Will and Testament as follows. 
First I commit my soul into the hands of Almighty God and my body to the Earth 
to be decently buried at the discretion of my Executor herein after named, and 
my worldly Estate I give and bequeath in manner and form following.~~~~~
I give to my son Richard Howard the Sum of one Shilling~~~~ I will and desire 
that my son William Drury shall collect all the money due to me, at my decease 
and pay the same to the Reverend W. Leonard Edelen of Saint Mary's County, and I 
give and bequeath to my said son William Drury all the rest and residue of my 
Estate of both real and personal whatsoever and that he take the same into his 
own Right possession and use immediately after my death to him his heirs and 
assigns forever, and I do hereby constitute and appoint my said son William 
Drury Executor of this my last will and Testament~~ In Testimony whereof I have 
hereunto Set my hand and seal this Eighteenth day of March in the year of our 
Lord Eighteen hundred and fourteen.

Elizabeth X Drury (((Seal)))

Signed Sealed published and declared
In the presence of
Ethelbt Cecil, Susanna X Rock, John X Magee

Saint Mary's County towit: The 11th day of April 1820. Then came Ethelbert Cecil 
one of the three Subscribing witnesses to the a foregoing last will and 
testament of Elizabeth Drury late of Saint Mary's County, deceased, and made 
oath on the Holy Evangels of Almighty God, that he did see the Testatrix therein 
named, sign and Seal this will, and that he heard her publish, pronounce and 
declare the same to be her last Will and Testament, and that at the time of her 
so doing, she was to the best of his apprehension of sound and disposing, mind, 
memory and understand, and that he subscribed his name as a witness to this will 
in the presence and at the request of the Testatrix and in the presence of 
Susanna Rock and John Magee, also that he did see them subscribe their names as 
witnesses to this will in the presence and at the request of the said 
Testatrix.~~~~~
Certified by James Forrest Reg Wills
for St. Mary's County
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Transcribed by Judith A. Burger February 17, 2001 from a photocopy of an 
original court record, JJ3 538-539, obtained from Norma I. Dawson, Registrer of 
Wills, Saint Mary's County, Maryland. The photocopy was good and the writing 
legible. I made no corrections of any kind.