A FEW ABSTRACTS FROM THE WILL BOOKS AT ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND; W. and M. Qrtly, Vol. 13, No. 1

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              A FEW ABSTRACTS FROM THE WILL BOOKS AT
                                         ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND.

     Will of William Durand, dated August 2, 1672; proved Aug. 6, 1672:
Mentions dwelling in Talbot county, marriage contract with Elizabeth
Aylee, names grandchild Samuel Withers.

     Will of Richard Bennett, dated January 29, 1656; probed May 6, 1657:
Names wife Henrietta Maria, provides for any

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28              WILLIAM AND MARY COLLEGE QUARTERLY.

child born within nine months of his death; cousin John Langley, honored
father Mr. Richard Bennett, and wife's father Captain James Neale.

     Will of Sampson Cooper, of Rippon, in the county of York, England,
Alderman, dated August 11, 1659; proved August 12, 1659:  To be buried
on the land of Colonel John Trussell, and in his burying place; Major George
Colclough and Colonel John Trussell, both of this county of Northumberland,*
to be overseers of my son, Samuel Cooper, who is to be sent to England
with all my tobaccoes, and bound apprentice to Samuel Coke, silk man,
at the sign of the three pigeons at the poultry in London; while he lives in this
country, he is not to live at Hugh Lee's; to son Jonathan Cooper meadow
land at Maidstone; names wife Bridget.

     Will of Jane Fenwick, dated November 24, 1660; proved December 12,
1660:  Names three sons Robert, Richard and John; mentions Ignatius &
Cuthbert Fenwick.

     Will of James Weedon, of Pocomoke, Maryland, dated November 12,
1670:  Son William Weedon, to whom he leaves None-Such, on London
Bridge, in the parish of St. Margaret's; wife Lucy, dau. Anne, brother
William Weedon, of London, gent.

     Will of Richard Preson, of Patuxent, son James grandchild Samuel; two
grandsons William & James Berry, kinsman John Dorsey, grandchild
Rebecca, daughter-in-law Margaret Preston, legacy to Thomas Preston of
the Clifts; three children James, Rebecca & Sarah Preston, friend William
Berry, Peter Thorpe & Thomas Taylor, of Kent, & John Mears upon the
Clifts -- overseers of the will.  Dated 16th day of the 7th month called
September, 1669, proved January 8, 1669.

     Will of Francis Pope, of Charles Co.:  sons Richard & John.  Dated
August 7, 1671.

     Henry Sewell's will, dated 25 April, 1664; cousin Richard Dudley, son

Samuel.  Children Nicholas, Elizabeth, Mary & Ann Sewell, wife Jane;
friend Charles & William Calvert.
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                       (*) Northumberland county, in Virginia, is meant.