Will of John JARBOE (1671); St. Mary’s County, Maryland This file was contributed by Randy Dunavan . ************************************************************************ * USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. ************************************************************************ 518 Assembly Proceedings, May--June 1676. p. 97 To the Right Honble. the Lord Proprietary & the two houses of Assembly The humble Peticon of Phillip Calvert Your Lordshipps Judge in Testamentory causes & John Jordain the two overseers of the last will of Leivt. Coll. John Jarboe late deceased. Sheweth That the said John Jarboe in the yeare of our Lord one thousand six hundred Seventy one being Sick made his Testa- ment in writeing by which he Divided his Lands amongst all his Children then borne That Recovering of that Sicknesse he lived till he had another Sonne & daughter borne And in the yeare of our Lord 1674 falling sick againe the said John Jour- dam That uppon thursday morning the fourth of March 1674 he came to the house of Leivt. Collonell John Jarboe and finding him sick the said John Jourdain aduised the said Jarboe to Settle his affaires that his wife and Children might not after his death be putt to trouble Whereuppon the said Jarboe desired the said lourdain to send for Mr. Edward Clarke to come to him on fryday Morning following to make his will and Said he did intend to alter his will made some yeares before because he had some Children borne Since the makeing the said will and that in Regard his daughter had some land to be made good to her by Marke Cordea and Walter Hall gentlemen he was Resolued to haue his owne land now divided between his three Sonnes Vizt. to John Jarboe the Seate of Land where he then lived with one Negro together with his Right to one hun- dred & fifty Acres of the mill land where William Medely lived and the millstones Exchanged with the Said William for the one hundred & fifty acres where the said William now lives as alsoe one Equall share with his Brothers Sister and mother of the Cattle Horses & ,Mares .& Houshould Stuffe To Peter Jarboe the three hundred Acres of Land bought or Exchanged with Henry Aspinall by St. Lawrence Creeke in Brittains Bay with one Negro & an Equall share of the Cattle Horses and Mares & Moueables To Henry Jarboe five hundred Acres in the Branches of St Lawrences Creeke one Negro & an Equall share of the Cattle Horses & Mares & Moveables as aforesaid To Mary Jarboe his Daughter the Silver Tankard & his Silver Spoones one Negro & an Equall share of Cattle Horses Mares & Household Stuffe ormoveables To Mary Iarboe his wife the man with one Eye & the Old Woman Called Cove & Ahon by name & an Equall share of the Moveables & onely the mare p. 98 Bonnie & her Colt of the Horses his own Rideing horse to be kept undivided for the use of the Plantacon Uppon which Plan- tacon his wife should hue dureing her life if shee pleased He desired the Chancellor & the said John lourdain to mannage the Estate of his Children To Edward Barbier he gaue a Young fillie & a heifer whether he Staid with his wife & Children uppon the Plantacon or not And he the said Iarboe then bid the said lourdain to take notice that this was his will in Case god almighty should take him before he Could make his will in writeing and then said that the next morning he would send for W Edward Clarke to putt his will in writeing and to W ifoster to give him the last Sacraments And likewise declared That in Case any of his Children dyed before they came to age that his will was that that Childs part should be Equally divided between the mother and the Rest of his Surviveing Children And in Case all his Children dyed before they come to age he gave his whole Estate to his wife after which and before he the said Jarboe could putt his said will in writeing the said Iarboe dyed & left his two Younger Sonnes in strict rigour of Law to the mercy of their elder Brother In tender Consideracon therefore of the distressed Condicon of the said Younger Brothers & as a reward of the faithfull Services of the said Leivtenant Collonell John Iarboe to your Lordshipps father of noble memory & to your selfe aliwayes performed Your Peti- coners doe humbly pray that itt may be Enacted And Bee itt Enacted by the Right Honble. the Lord Proprietary by and with the aduice and Consent of the upper and lower houses of this present Generall Assembly & the Authority of the same That the Respective devises of the said three hundred Acres of Land to Peter Jarboe & of the said five hundred acres of Land to Henry Jarboe in the said Nuncupative will of the said Leiv- tenant Collonell JohnJIarboe Contained shall vest the said Lands in the said Peter & Henry Jarboe & their heyres re- spectively as fully and Effectually to all intents and purposes as if the said will had dureing the life time of the said Leivt. Coll. John Jarboe been Conceived in writeing & been penned Liber in due forme of Law any Law Custome or usage either in this W H & L Prouince or in the kingdome of England to the Contrary here- of in any wise Notwithstanding.