Will of Henry DICK (1808); Washington Co., MD Contributed to the USGenWeb Archives by Dorina Shepley Copyright. All Rights Reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/md/mdfiles.htm ********************************************************* Will Liber B, Folio 165 Written 4/21/1808, Probated 7/23/1808 Appraisal Liber D, Folio 53 Will Abstract: I... Henry Dick Senior of Boonsborough,.....Weaver.....weak in body...sound of mind... give and bequeath to daughter Margaret Durnbaugh.... in fee simple eleven acres of land adjoining the lands of Henry Bowman and George Maas.... to beloved wife Mary Dick during her natural life my lott and houses in Boonsborough and personal estate...after the death of my said wife.... my estate then remaining... to be sold a publick sale... equally divided into five equal shares one fifth part to daughter, Julianna Baker, one fifth to daughter Margaret Durnbaugh... the other three fifths to be deposited in the Orphans Court requesting the money to be put ___ in.. interest for the use of my three sons John, David and Henry Dick each to draw one third of the interest yearly, but it is my will and desire that so soon as they or either of them become sober and carefull they or either shall receive their full share at the discretion of the judges of the Orphans Court Inventory Liber D, Folio 53 Dated Oct. 6th, 1808 by Ezekial Cheney and John Brandner Value of Inventory is $141.06. Items of interest are 1 clock @$25.00, 1 Loom and tacklings $16.00, 1 Bed, bedstead & curtains $16.50, 1 template stove and pipe $12.00, spinning wheel, chairs, chest, clothes, another bed, pewterware, tinware, crockery, cupboard, plough, 2 cows, 1 pair of Stilliards, 1 pair of silver shoe buckles, and other household items. The Clock must have been quite a nice one to be valued so high, even higher than the weaving loom. The bed is also priced quite high, indicating it was likely a very nice quality bed. Notes: Mary Dick was still living at the time of her husband's death as evidenced that on Oct. 6, 1808, she made an oath that the inventory was true and the only one.