Will of Abraham Troxell, 1785; Washington Co., MD

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Abraham Troxell’s Will
Washington Co., MD
Bk A   p 128, 129


In the name of God Amen, the __day of Jany [January] in the year of our Lord One 
thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty five, I, Abraham Troxel of Washington County 
State of Maryland, Yeoman, being very aged and weak but of perfect mind and 
memory thanks be given unto God therefore calling unto mind the mortality of my 
body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die do make and Ordain 
this my last Will and Testament that is to say principally and first of all I 
give and Recommend my Soul into the hands of God that gave it and for my body I 
recommend it to the Earth to be Buried in a Christian like and decent manner at 
the discretion of my Executor nothing doubting but at the General Resurrection I 
shall receive the same again by the Mighty power of God and as touching such 
Worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this life I give 
devise and dispose of the same in the following manner and form
Primus It is my Will and I do order that in the first place all my Just Debts 
and Funeral Charges be paid and Satisfied   Item I give and Bequeath unto 
Catharina my Dearly beloved wife her Lawful third part during her life time with 
all my Household Goods and moveables  Item I give to my well beloved Son David 
Two Portions of my Estate and my five Daughters Namely the Oldest Catharina, the 
second Magdalena, the third Anna, the fourth Susana, and the fifth Salom to Each 
One portion and he my Son David  shall pay thereof when they Come to their Age.  
And further and Lastly I Constitute make and Ordain to my only and sole Executor 
of this my Last Will and Testament my well beloved friend John Cellar Justice of 
the peace and I do hereby utterly disallow revoke and dismiss all and every 
other former Testaments Wills and Legacies and Executors by me in any ways 
before this time named Willed and Bequeathed Ratifying and Confirming this and 
no other to be my last Will and Testament in witness whereof I have hereunto set 
my hand and seal the day year above written
Abraham Troxell
Signed sealed published pronounced and declared by the said Abraham Troxel as 
his last Will and Testament in the presence of us the subscribers [ names of the 
witnesses were omitted here but are later named as Charles Scheibele, Leonard 
Phifer and John Wetzstein. ]
I do hereby certify that the appointed Executor in the last Will and Testament 
of Abraham Troxel late of said County deceased came personally before me and 
refused to act as Executor to said Will by virtue of such appointment I do 
therefore renounce all his right title and claim to said Executorship According                
Certified by Thomas Belt Regr
Washington County Ss March 30th 1786 Then came Catharina Troxel and David Troxel 
and made oath that the within Instrument of Writing is the true and whole Will 
and Testament of Abraham Troxell late of said county deceased  that hath come to 
their hands or possession and that they do not know of any other And at the same 
time came Charles Scheibele and Leonard Phifer two of the subscribing Witnesses 
to the within last Will and Testament of Abraham Troxel late of said County 
deceased and severally made oath on the Holy Evangels of Almighty God that they 
did see the Testator herein named sign and seal this Will that they heard him 
publish pronounce and declare the same to be his last Will and Testament that at 
the time of his so doing he was to the best of their apprehensions of sound and 
disposing mind memory and understanding and that they respectively subscribed 
their names as witnesses to this Will in the presence and at the request of the 
testator and in the presence of each other and that they saw John Wetzstein do 
the same
Certified by Thomas Belt regr.
[Transcriber’s note: The surname is spelled Troxel in some places and Troxell in 
others.]