Will of Mary Ellen DRURY (1845); St. Mary’s County, Maryland

This file was contributed by Judith Burger.

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Mary Ellen Drury
Nuncupative Will
Stated: February 23, 1845

The Last Will and Testament Of 
Ellen Drury
On the 23rd of February 1845 it being the day preceding the one on which my 
Sister Mary Ellen Drury died she called me to her bedside and told me she should 
die. That she wished her old negro woman Sarah to be set free. That after all 
her Just debts were paid she wished her niece Ann Celestia Sanner to have her 
bureau her bed and bedstead her work stand and all the rest of her things.

Caroline Sanner

Maryland Saint Mary's County orphans Court April the 5th 1845
The will alleged to have been made by Mary Ellen Drury late of Saint Mary's 
County deceased being this day filed in Court and are pressed in the words 
following, to wit (above written) Whereupon Caroline Sanner appearing in Court 
after being first duly sworn on the holy evangels of Almighty God deposeth and 
saith That the deceased Mary Ellen Drury on the 23rd day of February 1845~~~the 
day before she died called her this deponent to her she being ill in bed and 
said she should die. That she the said Mary Ellen Drury wished her old negro 
woman Sarah to be set free That after the payment of her Just debts she wished 
her niece Ann Celestia Sanner to have her bureau her bed and bedstead, her 
workstand and all the rest of her things Whereupon the Court here order and That 
the said paper or instrument of writing purporting to be the last will and 
testament of the said Mary Ellen Drury deceased shall be admitted as such to 
probat and recorded
Test GCombs Reg of Wills

In testimony that the aforegoing is truly taken from the proceedings of St. 
Mary's County orphan's Court I hereunto subscribe my name and affix my seal this 
8th day of April 1845~~~~
Filed 8th April 1845~~~~~~~~~~~
GCombs Reg Wills
for St Mary's County
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Transcribed by Judith A. Burger February 18, 2001 from a photocopy of an 
original court document, GC2 153, obtained from Norma I. Dawson, Registrer of 
Wills, Saint Mary's County, Maryland. The photocopy was good, the writing 
legible. I made no corrections of any kind