WILL: Anna Davis; Providence, Saratoga Co., NY

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Transcribed by Thomas Dunne  Written as it appeared to read to me, without
corrections.

Saratoga County Will Book Vol. 4 page 480

The Will of Anna Davis wife of Job

In the name of god Amen This tweth day of May in the year of our Lord One
thousand and Eight hundred and fourteen.  I Anna Davis wider of Job Davis dect
of Providence in the county of Saratoga and State of New York being advanrt in
age sick and week in body but of perfect mind and memory calling to mind the
mortality of the body knwing it is appointed for all men once to die thanks be
given to god for favoring me with a sence of the are then ?? I do therefore
make and ordain this my last will and testament, that is to say princibally
and first of all I give and recommend my soul unto the hands of god that 
gave it and my body to be affcently buried by the hands of my executors
hereafter mentioned hoping through the marcy of god to recive a glorias
resurection through christ my reddeemer and touching such things as it pleased
god to bless me with in life after just debts and furnerel charges is paid and
satisfied I give and dispose of as fowllews.  I give to my sun Pardon Davis
all the notes and obligations that I have and the money that I am in Titled to
for the sise of my land that is in the town of West Port, county of Pristol,
State of Machucets wich my sun Pardon Davis is to have the rent of my landed
property during my naterel life and the note is all for my Sun Pardon acept
one small note wich my sun Perry Davis give, that is the smallest of the two
notes that my sun Perry give me which I order my sun Perry Davis to get a
string of gold beeds for dahter Anne Davis, and the remainder of the said
smallest note I hold against my sun Perry is to be given to my sun Perry after
paying for the beeds as above and further I order my executers to pay my suns 
John, Gideon, and Nathan Davis one dollar each after my deceas and I give to
my grandht Anna Davis ? after of my sun Pardon Davis my best bed and coverled
one pair of Sheets and piller cases and further I give to my dahter Mary Soule
my gold neckles and all my wearing apperel and I give to my Grand sun Job
Davis twenty dollers which his father Pardon Davis is to pay him when he is
twenty one years of age and further I give all the remainder of my property to
my sun Pardon Davis and I do hereby constitute and appoint my sun Pardon Davis
and Joseph Sawle to be my executors to this my last and testament ratifying
and confirming this to be my last will  signed, seald, published and decreed
by the said Anna Davis to be her last will and testament the year ana day
first above mentioned                                    her
                                            Anna  X  Davis  LS
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