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GENEALOGY
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1867-1897
WICOMICO COUNTY, MARYLAND
WILLS
LIBER WB#1
December 1867-Deceniber 1879
Abstracted by
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WICOMICO COUNTY, MARYLAND
WILLS
LIBER WB#1
December 1867-Deceinber 1879
The following wills have been abstracted from the Wcimico county Register of Wills documents which can
be found on microfilm MSA CR65 from the Maryland Hall of Records. Wicomico county was established in 1 867
out of the Worcester and Somerset Counties.
We have attempted to abstract as much vital information as possible in order to facilitate the researcher in
their quest. The first date given refers to the date the will was written— the second date is that of the probate of the
will. Following down, are the various legatees and relationship (when mentioned) to the testator. We have listed all
bequests following the legatee's name and have done so by pulling all the information together. In many of the
wills, the bequests are scattered about, so that our abstracts do not fully follow the exact order in which the will was
written. We have also included the tract names and the names of individuals —where mentioned —whose property
lay adjacent to the testator's land.
One of the difficulties of abstracting old documents is the handwriting of the clerk. The wills contained on
the microfilm are all clerk's copies of the original document. Thus, the clerk did copy verbatim the will as it had
been dictated onto the original. In many cases these were written and spelled the same as the testator spoke which
causes some problems of translation. However it is important for the researcher in some instances as it gives one a
sense of how the testator spoke and what type of dialect he may have had. The most obvious is the spelling of some
of the names — Heser, for "Hester" or "Sary" for "Sarah" and "Alec" for "Alice" Also
the dialect of the shore made it common for the inhabitants to use the words "Daster" or "dater" for daughter.
Where names or tract names or even items are indecipherable, we have placed (?) after the word in question.
At the end of the will are the signatures of the subscribing witnesses-being those who could swear that the
will was the acknowledged will of the testator and that he was of sound mind when the document was written. Then
came: refers to those witnesses who appeared before the magistrates to swear of their presence and the authenticity
of the will.
Following Then came" May be another "Then came:" in which the widow appeared before the magistrates
and either agreed to abide by the legacies and divisions of the will as written, or
refused and instead elected to have her lawful thirds, which means she could— by law— take one third (her dower
portion) of the testator's estate both in real estate and personal estate.
Maryland
East of the Chesapeake
Somerset County Wills 1675-1710 D
Somerset County Wills 1710-1729 D
Somerset County Wills 1 730- 1 739 G
Somerset County Wills 1 740- 1 747 Q
Somerset County Wills 1 748- 1 759 D
Somerset County Wills 1 760- 1 769 D
Somerset County Wills 1770-1778 D
Somerset County Wills 1 778- 1 784 D
Somerset County Wills 1785-1790 D
Somerset County Wills 1 79 1 - 1 795 D
Somerset County Wills 1796-1800 D
Somerset County Wills 1801-1805 □
Somerset County Wills 1 806- 1811 D
Somerset County Wills 1 8 1 2- 1 8 1 8 D
SomersetCounty Wills 1819-1825 D
Somerset County Wills 1 826- 1831 D
Somerset County Wills 1832-1836 D
Somerset County Wills 1 837- 1 842 D
Somerset County Wills 1843-1849 D
Somerset County Wills 1 850- 1 855 D
Somerset County Wills 1856-1862 D
Somerset County Wills 1 863- 1 870 D
Somerset County Wills 1 87 1 - 1 889 D
Somerset County Land Records 1 753- 1 759 D
Somerset County Land Records 1 760- 1 760 D
Somerset County Land Records 1765-1769 □
Somerset County Rent Rolls Vol 1 D
(Annamessex. Monie, Wicomico)
Somerset County Rent Rolls Vol. 2 D
(Manokin, Pocomoke, Dividing Creek)
Somerset County Rent Rolls Vol. 3 a
(Nanticoke, Quantico. Rewastico
Assawoman, Sinepitxant. St. Martin 's River)
Somerset County Rent Rolls Vol. 4 n
(Various Locations)
Somerset County Rent Rolls Vol. 5 D
(Various Locations 1688-1705)
Somerset County Rent Rolls Vol. 6 D
(Various Locations 1705-1740)
Somerset County Additional Rent Rolls □
(1766-1775)
Talbot County Court Proceedings 1 662- 1671 D
Talbot County Court Proceedings 1671-1 674 n
TalbotCounty Wills 1777-1784 D
Talbot County Wills 1 785- 1 789 D
Talbot County Wills 1 790- 1 794 a
Talbot County Wills 1 794- 1 80 1 D
TalbotCounty' Wills 1808-1812 O
Talbot County Wills 1 8 1 3- 1 8 1 7 a
Talbot Count} Wills 1 8 1 8- 1 822 a
Talbot County Wills 1 823- 1 830 O
TalbotCounty Wills 1830-1841 n
Talbot County Rent Rolls Vol. 1 D
(1733-1755 folio 1-60)
Talbot County Rent Rolls Vol. 2 D
(1 733-1 755 folio 61-125)
Worcester County Wills 1 742- 1 749 D
Worcester County Wills 1759-1769 D
Worcester County Wills 1 769- 1 774 D
Worcester County Wills 1 774- 1 783 D
Worcester County Wills 1 783- 1 790 D
Worcester County Wills 1 790- 1 795 D
Worcester County Wills 1796-1799 D
Worcester County Wills 1 799- 1 802 D
Worcester County Wills 1 802- 1 807 D
Worcester County Wills 1 806- 1813 O
Worcester County Wills 1 8 1 3- 1 8 1 7 n
WorcesterCounty Wills 1818-1822 D
Worcester County Wills 1 823- 1 827 n
Worcester County Wills 1 828- 1 833 n
Worcester County Wills 1 833- 1 842 O
Worcester County Wills 1 842- 1850 D
Worcester County Land Records 1 789- 1 79 1 D
Worcester County Land Records 1 79 1 - 1 793 D
Worcester County Land Records 1 798- 1 80 1 n
Worcester County Rent Rolls Vol 1 D
(1743-1763 folio 1-70)
Worcester County Rent Rolls Vol 2 a
(1743-1763 folio 71-150)
Worcester County Rent Rolls Vol 3 D
(1763-1775 folio 1-77 )
Worcester County Rent Rolls Vol 4 D
(1743-1763 folio 78-125 )
Caroline County Wills 1 688- 1 769 D
Caroline County Wills 1 770- 1 779 D
Caroline County Wills 1779-1784 n
Caroline County Wills 1785-1 792 n
Caroline County Wills 1 793- 1 799 n
Caroline County Wills 1 800- 1 806 D
Caroline County Wills 1 807- 1815 D
Caroline County Wills 1816-1825 D
CarolineCounty Wills 1825-1837 n
Caroline County Wills 1838-1853 n
Dorchester Count)' Rent Rolls Vol 1 □
1659-1676
Dorchester County Rent Rolls Vol 2 n
1677-1688
Dorchester County Rent Rolls Vol 3 n
1688-1707
Dorchester County Rent Rolls Vol 4 □
1707-1723
Queen Anne County Wills 1 707- 1 722 D
Queen Anne Count>W'ills 1723-1738 D
Queen Anne Count>' Wills 1 739- 1 747 n
Queen Anne County Wills 1 748- 1 754 D
Queen Anne County Wills 1 755- 1 763 n
Wicomico County Wills 1 867- 1 879 n
Wicomico Countv' Wills 1880-1897 O
1907 Salisbur,', Mar>land Cit> Director. D
Maryland
West of The Chesapeake
St. Mary's County Wills 1666-1699 D
St. Mary's County Wills 1699-1716 D
St. Mary's County Wills 1717-1725 D
St. Mary's County Wills 1726-1735 D
P.O. County Wills 1698-1717 D
P.G. County Wills 1717-1731 D
P.G. County Land Records 1696-1702 D
P.G. County Land Records 1703-1709 D
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Wicomico County Wills
Liber WBl
December 1867 - December 1879
(Abstracted from MSA CR65)
F:2
Annis Williams (Somerset County)*
21 July 1866
To son Thomas H. Williams - farm in Somerset County containing 380 acres, $3000
To son James F. Williams - half of farm if son Thomas dies without heir, $3000, my family Bible
To the children of daughter Mary Ann Leonard - half of farm if son Thomas dies without heir
To daughter Mary Ann Leonard - the yearly interest on $2000, my clothes
To granddaughter Martha E. Leonard - bed and furniture
To granddaughter Julia Estheranne Leonard - bed and furniture
To granddaughter Ellen Leonard - spinning wheel
To my former slaves Leah Williams and Milly Williams - $500 as they need and also my beehive
To William Anna Leonard - bureau
Executor: son James
Witness: Samuel A. Graham, William W. Gordy, Charles W. Dennis
28 December 1867 Then came
F:5
Elijah Pinkett (Worcester County)*
15 May 1866
To son Elijah - $10
To wife Milly - remainder of estate for widowhood
To children John, Sally, Charlotte- personal estate
To son John - after wife's widowhood, house and lot which begins, at the comer of Levin Houston's lot, on
the street and running back 104 feet and thence across parallel with the street leading by the Presbyterian
Church, in front of my house to my line next to a lot formerly owned by George Todd
Executor: son John
Witness: Josiah Causey, Conrad Jordan, Thomas Humphrey
13 April 1868 Then came
F:6
Narcissa Truitt (Worcester)* widow of John Truitt
13 January 1864
To daughter Sarah Dennis, widow of Henry Dennis Junior - residue of property
To granddaughter Phones Dennis daughter of Sarah - bed and furniture
To grandson Charles H. Dennis son of Sarah - bed and furniture
Witness: John D. Sheppard, James W, A. Davis
1 June 1868 Then came
*original county - will made before the creation of Wicomico
F:12
Henry Carey
28 July 1868
To grandson William Albert Carey son of John - the sum of $25 at the age of eighteen
To wife Elizabeth - $165 or 1/3 of estate
To three children Theodore, Julia Sturgis wife of Thos., and John Carey now of Delaware - remainder of
estate
Executor: James Duncan, Edward White
Witness: Hiram J. Bailey, Levin H. Dennis, John S. Duskey
3 August 1 868 Then came
F:13
William H. Carey
4 May 1868
To wife Charlotte - estate for widowhood
To children - property after wife's widowhood
To relatives and friends - use of 1/4 acre for graveyard
Executor: wife
Witness: Ebenezer Disharoon, Josiah McGrath, George W. Cathell
26 August 1868 Then came
F:14
Samuel Elsey
2 April 1867
To wife Nancy - house and lot known as Redhill and furniture as long as she remains single
To my single children Samuel, Henry, Esther, Ann, Wesley, Francis - a home where I now reside as long as
Nancy Elsey lives and after her death to be divided between children
Witness: William H. Somers, James R. Willing, James A. J. Willing
29 September 1868
F:15
Elijah Laws of (Worcester)*
25 February 1854
To son John W. Laws - real estate except the land purchased of Warner Station
To son Noah. - $300 at age twenty-one and son John's part of he dies whhout issue and land purchased of
Warner Station
To daughters Gertrude Laws, Charlotte M. Laws, Margaret E. Laws, Priscilla D. Laws - $150 each at age
twenty-one
Executor: son John
Witness: Elisha Holloway, William Shockley, George Walston
Codicil to above
27 August 1861
To daughters Sarah Parsons, Mary J. Brittingham, Claressa Adkins, Leurane Truitt - $50 each
Witness: Theodore Morris, Elijah W. Morris
12 October 1868 Then came
*original county - will made before the creation of Wicomico
F:8
Daniel Dashiell
8 June 1868
To nephew Edgar J. Dashiell - 250 acres being northern part of plantation DashieU's Re^ulation where I now
live. This adjoins the land of William Harris, James Phillips, and William Catlin beginning in the swamp and
running to Wetipquin Neck
To niece Elizabeth White wife of Asa White - balance of real estate
To nephew Wesley A. Dashiell - $300
To nephew Peter Dashiell - $300
To nephew William Francis Dashiell - $300
Executor: Edgar J. Dashiell
Witness: Ware Winright, John W. Daugherty, George Riall
17 June 1868 Then came
F:10
Bassitt Rain of (Worcester)*
I May 1867
To wife Julia - whole income from my lands for 4 years and her dower i lands
To sons John G., Henry, Lamber, Parker S., and daughter Rachel A. B. Rain - $70 each
Executor: Julia A. Rain
Witness: John M. Jones, John T. Jones, Elijah M. Lewis
8 July 1868 Then came
F:ll
Ananias Dennis
15 July 1868
To son John Westly Dennis - $10
To daughter Mary wife of John W. Dennis of Johnson - $10
To son Johnathan Dennis - $10
To son Benjamin Dennis - $10
To son Minos Dennis - $10
To son Garrettson Dennis - $10
To son Levi Dennis - land that was given to me by the last will and testament of my father Henry Dennis
called Henry Last Choice. Also land obtained from Garrettson Gordy being the land where my said son now
resides
To daughters Margaret Elizabeth and Lavinia Dennis - tract where I now reside called John's Lot containing
50 acres
Executor: Edward H. Williams
Witness: Garettson Gordy, Levi D. Gordy, Levi Duncan
22 July 1868 Then came
F:18
Joshua Holloway Senior
21 October 1867
To son Elijah - 25 cents and no more
To son Joshua - 25 cents and no more
To son Mordecai - 25 cents and no more
To son Elisha - 25 cents and no more
To daughter Mary wife of Benjamin Farlow - 25 cents and no more
To Elizabeth wife of Lemor Parsons - $25 and no more
To Mary E. wife of Daniel Dennis - $25
To Sarah Farlow wife of James Farlow - $25
To Nancy wife of Ebenezer Dennis - $25
To Joshua Farlow - $25
To Mary R. Truitt daughter of Elijah J. Truitt - $25
To Rosena Truitt daughter if Elijah J. Truitt - $25
To Lursia Truitt daughter of Elijah J. Truitt - $25
To the six surviving children of my deceased daughter Hannah J. Parsons (Elizabeth wife of William Jones,
Priscilla wife of James Givens, Ann Mariah Parsons, George W. Parsons, Daniel J. Parsons, and Joshua J.
Parsons) - Vi of remainder of personal estate
To the heirs of my deceased daughter Levicia Truitt (Mary Jane wife of George Ward, Elijah Truitt, Sally E.
wife of Thomas Jones, Priscilla Ann wife of William West, Elisha S.Truitt, and the children of Hannah
Perdue wife of Lambert Perdue) - Vi of remainder of personal estate with the Perdue children's portion in the
hands of Elijah J. Truitt
Executor: Elijah Holloway
Witness: Robert Staton, Thomas A. Walston, James Driskel
24 October 1868 Then came
F:20
Beauchamp Howard (Somerset)*
23 June 1865
To eldest son Joseph H. - plantation where he now lives which belonged to his grandfather Joseph Howard
To second son Hiriam H. - plantation where he now lives which I bought of Perr>' O. Nelson
To third son Louther J. _ land I bought of Luther Kennerly and Alfred English
To fourth son Azariah B. - dwelling plantation and the land bought at the trustee sale of the heirs of Thomas
Cooper
To my four sons - property known as The Double Mills
To wife Mahala - her dower and the horse bought of William Giles and the carriage
To daughter Sally Bayly - $100
To John W. Bayly son of Sarah - $50
To daughter Mary Howard - $150
To daughter Margaret Howard - $75
To daughter Rachel Howard - $100
To granddaughter Mary M. Howard - $25
Executor: Mahala Howard, Azariah Howard
Witness: Richard P. Darby, Benjamin Gravenor, William Darby
29 October 1868 Then came
F:22
Matthias Willing (Somerset)*
26 December 1849
To Maria Douglass - $50
To Negro man Stephen - his freedom and yoke of oxen, cart, canoe and sails. Pair of oyster rakes, crosscut
saw, ax, hand saw, drawing knife
To nephew Samuel White Senior - remainder of estate
Executor: nephew Samuel White
Witness: George Wainwright, John A. Scarborough, Jesse Wainwright
I December 1868 Then came Henry J. White administer of the estate of Samuel White
F:23
Severn D. Bradley
12 October 1868
To youngest son George P. - farm whereon 1 live being the land purchased of Samuel Jackson and called
Clover Field containing 97 acres
To sons Ferdinand and Samuel - $100 each and farm if George dies without issue and all my portion of my
father's estate
To wife Elizabeth - personal property
To George Jackson son of Peter - $ 1
To Mary Jane wife of Peter Jackson- $1
To Virginia daughter of Peter Jackson - $ 1
To Mary Jane daughter of Peter Jackson - $ 1
To daughter Phillis W. Bradley - $1
To daughter Margaret Evans - $ I
To daughter Isabella Phillips - $1
To daughter Delilah Jackson - $1
Executor: son George and James Gilliss
Witness: James Gilliss, Vardine W. Bradley, Thomas B. Taylor
19 January 1869 Then came
F:24
Jesse Parks
3 January 1 869
To granddaughter Lidia Parks daughter of my deceased son Jesse - $100 when she is eighteen
To wife Hannah and sons Thomas J. and John W. - remainder of estate
Executor: Thomas J. Parks
Witness: John Turner, William Langrall, George A. C. Walter
19 Januars 1869 Then came
"original county - will made before the creation of Wicomico
F:26
George E. R.J. Collier (Somerset)*
18 December 1868
To son George - farm where 1 live on the east side of the Nanticoke River called Mount Hope extending back
from the river to the road leading from White Haven to Nanticoke Point and 16 acres of Turnstile purchased
of William R. Jackson, John W. Jones and Margaret E. Jones and all the notes of hand. Also my whole
library and set of dental instruments
To wife and daughter Margaret E. Jackson, William P. Collier, Levin M. V. B. Collier - proceeds from sale
of known as the Tyaskin farm
To wife Eleanor - bed and furniture and her dower
To son William P. - his part to be given as my executors think he needs it
Executor: George E. R. J. Collier, Jesse Wainwright
Witness: George H. Woolford, George Riall, Robert Walter
23 January 1869 Then came
F:27
Elizabeth Gordy
12 December 1868
A schedule of household good and notes given by Elizabeth Gordy to her children
To daughter S.A. Phillips - note from James A. Venables for $200 and household goods
To son James Vincent - note from T.W. Seabraze for $300, note from C.W. Dennis for $300, note from
R.H. Adkinsfor$140
To sons David Vincent and Harvey Vincent - $300
Executor: E.L. Wailes
Witness: Joshua Johnson
23 February 1 869 Then came
F:28
John McDaniel
19 October 1868
To nephew Samuel Dryden of Worcester - bed and furniture $100
To housekeeper Elizabeth McDaniel - bed and fumiUire, cupboard, six silver tea spoons. $100
To trustees of the Presbyterian Church of Salisbury - rail road certificate
To nephew Robert H. Dryden - bed and furniture, 6 cane-bottom chairs, rocking chair
Executor: Robert H. Dryden
Witness: J. Hopkins Tarr, Levin Williams, Jesse Simms
27 April 1869 Then came
F:29
Charles Ellis
13 April 1869
To son John Henry Ellis - land where I now live having already deeded him the part over the ditch that runs
from the county road to Mr. A. P. Beathards provided that my wife Eliza and daughter Henny and Henny's
children will have use of the house
To the heirs of daughter Mary E. Perdue deceased - $50
To daughter Martha Ellis wife of Pumell Ellis - $50
To daughter Henny Shockley - $50
Executor: son John
Witness: James Duncan, Noah Pennewell, Wally A. P. Jones
20 April 1869 Then came
F:3I
James Madison Shockley
5 March 1 869
To wife Ellen - property for life
To Job Thomas Parks, Anna Maria Dykes, Mary Ellen Anderson, Sarah Dykes wife of William - estate after
wife's death. In case Mary Ellen Anderson should marry before the death of my wife, then 1 devise her share
to her children Sallie Anderson and George Anna Anderson
Executor: James Dykes of P.
Witness: W.W Gordy, John Evans, Thomas Humphrey
1 1 May 1 869 Then came
F:32
Joseph A. Disharoon
14 April 1869
To wife Sally E. - estate for life
To children - estate after wife's death
Executor: wife and her father Henry J. Dashiell
Witness: George W. Todd, John A. Hitch, Mary Davis
11 May 1869 Then came
F:33
Daniel Foskey
21 May 1869
To son Samuel E. - that part of the farm purchased of William H. Jackson which is on the east side of line
beginning separating the farm from that of Isaac B. Jackson, running with the fence to the private road
leading from the farm house to Delmar and through the woods to the line of Jesse Davis
To son Daniel H. - that part on the west side of the above line
To daughters Mary Catherine Foskey and Nancy Jane Heam - the farm where 1 now live containing 33 1
acres including all the land owned by James Foskey except that conveyed to James Foskey in the division of
said land and also the tract called Contentment and Jackson Disappointment and the land bought of Gilliss
Figgs
That my executors " pay to my wife the note or bill obligatory which she now holds against me for one
hundred dollars"
That land bought from Spicer M. White and his wife Elizabeth containing 97 acres be sold for debts
To wife Sally W. and my four children - personal estate
Executor: Samuel E. Foskey and Daniel H. Foskey
Witness: James B. Foskey, Lovey C.C Smith, Samuel A. Graham
22 June 1869 Then came
F:35
Littleton Jenkins
24 May 1 869
To wife Sarah Jane - all property for life
To Frank Jenkins - estate after wife's death
Executor: friend William Birckhead
Witness: Lemuel Malone, Robert E. Pumell, Stephen P. Toadvine
6 Julv 1869 Then came
F:36
Charles Horsey
28 July 1868
To wife Milcah - all property
Witness: James Gilliss, Elisha P. Bennett, Lucien M. Bradley
28 July 1869 Then came
F:37
Samuel Weatherly ( Somerset)*
23 November 1865
To daughters Elizabeth and Mary Weatherly - my part of tract Small Spot, sheep, bed and furniture, spinning
wheel, mantel clock, floor carpet
To six children - personal estate
Executor: Robert M. Elzey
Witness: Robert Twilley, Isaac Taylor, Thomas Knowles
28 July 1869 Then came
F:38
Isaac J.Lewis
9 August 1869
That farm where Theodore Carey now lives to be sold and the land near St. Polls Church about where the
stream mill now stands be sold
To wife Martha and children - remainder of estate
Executor: James Duncan
Witness: William Truitt, Ananias B. Gray, James C. Littleton
24 August 1869 Then came
F:40
Joseph Heam (Worcester)*
8 May 1866
To eldest son Brinkley - the farm purchased of Henry Mills in 1849 and the farm where Brinkley now lives
To son Samuel - farm bought at public sale from Thomas Smith administrator of the estate of Henry Mills
which is called the Herron Place and contains about 135 acres
To youngest son Elijah S. - farm where I now live bought of Peter G. Heam being about 207 acres
To daughter Irena Heam - $500
Executor: wife Sally and son Elijah
Witness: Ebenezer White, George H. Jackson, William A. Olliphant
7 September 1869 Then came
F:41
James G. Huffmgton
28 August 1869
To sisters Hester and Rutah Huffmgton - all property
Witness: John W. Turpin, Lambert H. Cooper, W. C. Marsters
24 September 1869 Then came
F:42
Jesse T. Bratten
7 December 1869
To wife Sarah Margaret - $400 in cash, bed and furniture
To mother Anna wife of Jesse - rest of estate
Executor: brother WiHiam B. Bratten
Witness: Billy T. Farlovv, James W. Davis, Lemuel B. Duncan
4 January 1 870 Then came
F:44
Nancy Bennett
14 October 1869
To grandson Noah S. Bennett - table and quilt
To grandson George W. Bennett - blue chest, iron pot
To granddaughter Mary Bennett - bed and furniture and quilt
To granddaughter Martha E. Bennett - looking glass, quilt
To grandson Henry W. Taylor - quilt, set of cups and saucers
To granddaughter Mary E. Taylor - quilt
To grandson Elisha Taylor - quilt
To granddaughter Letictia E. Taylor - quilt
To granddaughter !dy M. Bennett - corner cupboard
To granddaughter Amanda Bennett - bureau
To grandson William Bennett - six plates
To grandson Oliver Bennett - pitcher
To granddaughter Laura Bennett - blue and white counterpain
To son James Bennett - carriage
To granddaughter Nancy Bennett - counterpain
To sons Levin, James, Elisha, and William Bennett - remainder
To daughters Eleanor Gravenor and Hester Taylor - wearing apparel
Executor: son Elisha
Witness: Thomas B. Taylor, William Wilson, Lambert H. Cooper
4 January 1870 Then came
F:45
Lemuel Mills ( Somerset)*
1 March 1867
To oldest son George - lot of ground, part of the tract where I now live, starting at the ditch leading from the
county road and emptying into the southern fork of Donoho Mill Pond and thence south to the line of Daniel
Heam and containing 3 acres
To second son Stephen - also a lot from the above
To third son Rufus - $50
To wife Mary - remainder of land for her land and then to divided among all my children
Executor: wife Mary
Witness: E. M. Waller, Handy J. Fowler, John S. Goslee
1 March 1870 Then came
"original county - will made before the creation of Wicomico
F:47
Matthias Toadvine
12 January 1869
To wife Lucreatia A. - 1/3 of the farm where I now live purchased of the heirs of Richard H. Handy and
personal property
To my four children who are now living and my grandson; Eleanor Richardson, Alexander Toadvine, Aurelia
H. Fowler, Margaret G. Moore, and grandson Marion T. Hargis son of my deceased daughter Caroline C.
Hargis - 2/3 of farm and if farm is sold 1/4 acres to be reserved for grave yard
Executor: son Alexander
Witness: W. Birckhead, Joshua Johnson, Daniel J. Holloway
10 March 1870 Then came
Codicil to above will
2 February 1 869
That son Alexander shall act as guardian to my grandchildren here named; Edward Fowler, Henry L. Fowler,
Claude Fowler and Lucretia Fowler and that he should hold in trust all property devised to their mother
Aurelia
Witness: Joshua Johnson, Levin Dorman
15 March 1870 Then came
F:49
Sarah D. J. Smith wife of Samuel
23 March 1870
To husband Samuel - all that tract in Nutter's District Wicomico County containing 60 acres which 1 bought
of my mother Loda Jenkins
Executor: husband
Witness: Elijah W. Adkins, John Adkins, John W. Parker, Joseph T. Parmer?
18 April 1870 Then came
F:50
Nancy Marine widow of Sharptown
15 April 1870
Desire to be buried by the side of my late husband and our graves enclosed with a good iron railing
To children Fletcher E. Marine, Vashta Twiford, Elizabeth Robinson, William J. Marine, Martha Rollins,
Sarah Jane Twilley - personal estate
To granddaughter Mary A. Adams - wash bowl and pitcher and coffee pot which were a present to me from
her deceased father O. Adams
To niece Mary Jane Bailey - trundle bed and furniture
To Hetty Marine - quilt
To son Fletcher - property where I now live
To Sarah Jane Twilley - the old grave yard lot lying on the west of the lot sold by me to her husband Thomas
J. Twilley. This lot should now extend from the west of H. Cooper's lot to a road on which is the house of
Vashta Twifford
To son William, Vashti Twifford, Elizabeth Robinson, Martha Rollins each a lot from a lot of ground to be
divided into four parts of equal size; beginning at the southeast comer of T. J. Twilley's and with a line south
to the county road on the south of mu place then west to the county road and north until it reaches the land
devised to Sarah Jane
Executor: eldest son Fletcher
Witness: James Robinson, John Robinson of Eli, Hiraim Cooper
21 April 1870 Then came
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Matthias A. Truitt (Worcester)*
23 April 1867
To son William - bed and furniture and residue of estate
To sons Peter P. and Isaac J. - land where I now live
Executor: sons Peter and Isaac
Witness: John P. R. Gilliss, John M. Dale Senior, Henry A. Smyth
24 May 1870 Then came
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Thomas Dashiell, Gentleman
24 May 1870
To son William T. D. Dashiell - house and lot in Sharptown
To son Levin Washington - bed and furniture and $50
To daughter Seleh Elizabeth Winder - counterpane
To daughter Mary Ellen - silver teaspoon
To daughter Lourania Priscilla - silver teaspoon
To all children - residue of estate
Witness: Thomas W. English, Thomas Robinson, William A. Riggin
1 1 June 1870 Then came
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Nancy Wall
1 April 1870
To Catherine M. Collins - land, part of tract Irland's Eve and part of tract Dispute
Witness: Thomas Robinson, William A. Riggin, James F. Marine
7 September 1870 Then came
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Lydia Lowe
22 October 1868
To John S. Lowe and Whitefield S. Lowe sons of my brother George Lowe - farm where Peter Haistings
lives
To niece Lydia Lowe daughter of George - bureau, sofa, sideboard, set silver teaspoons, $200
To John Heam son of John W. Heam - note held against John W. Hearn
To George Anna Lowe daughter of brother George - bed and furniture
To Ruth E. Heam daughter of John W. Heam - bed and fumiture
To sister Jane Heam - $ 1 00
To brother George - notes 1 hold against him
To Jas. W. Lowe, George Anna Lowe, children of brother - residue of estate
Executor: brother George
Witness: Theodore Parsons, J. C. Bell. Thomas B. Smith
20 September 1870 Then came
* original county - will made before the creation of Wicomico
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Michail L. Todd
9 April 1870
To George W. Todd - bed and furniture and land after wife's death and when he is twenty-one
To wife Mary - remainder of personal estate and land north of the road leading from my house to the old mill
dam
Executor: wife
Witness: John Turner, A. F. Turner, George A. C. Waller
2 August 1 870 Then came
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Laura Darby wife of William Thomas Darby
27 August 1870
To husband - all estate from my father Isaac K. Wright which may be due me by Clement Wright Executor of
my father's will
Executor: husband
Witness: Joseph Bratten, Richard Darby, Isaac Kebberly
27 September 1870 Then came
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Samuel Gordy
1 October 1870
To sons William S. Gordy and Samuel E. Gordy - my storehouse and lot and all the buildings attached,
wharf and granary where I now do business. Also stock of goods
To daughters Laura F. and Mary E. Gordy - $1000 each and my piano forte
To son William - lot opposite to the railroad depot and my gold watch
To son Samuel - house and lot near the depot now occupied by John Karper and the farm where my father
lived and died
To daughters and son Samuel - house and lot in Salisbury where 1 now live
To daughter Laura - house and lot opposite my store on Division Street in Salisbury adjoining the post office
and $500
The house and lot where J. Parkes lives, the house and lot where Prissy Waller lives, the house and lot where
Gillis Gordy lives, the house and lot where John Brewington lives and the lot bought of George W. Todd on
the road leading to Middle Neck Bridge are to be sold and the proceeds divided among my children
To daughter Mary - $500
To wife Leah - bed and furniture, horse Peter and the carriage and her dower
Executor: son William
Witness: George W. Todd, William W. Gordy, Thomas Humphreys
24 October 1 870 Then came
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William Anna Toadvine wife of Matthias
12 June 1868
To mother Milcah Horsey wife of Charles Horsey - all estate
Executor: husband, who is to give to James A. Phillips a good deed for the house and lot that I sold in
Forktown when he pays Pumell Toadvine the bills of obligation and to receive, the same time, a deed from
Purnell Toadvine to my mother for the house and lot in which 1 now reside
Witness: Lemuel Malone, Henrietta Byrd, Jane M. Heam
15 November 1870 Then came
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Robert Jones of George (Somerset)*
28 May 1868
To wife Henrietta - in addition to her dower, my dwelling house, yard and garden. The house being in
Princess Anne excepting that part of the lot between the lot of Isaac Collins and a line parallel to the north of
said Collins and running from the main street west to Church Street by and with the south end of my kitchen
To grandchildren, children of Charles Packard - the above lot
To son Robert K. Jones - in trust for the use of my son Robert K. Jones the rents and profits of my farm on
Wicomico Creek where the said Robert now lives, known as the "Home Farm" or usually called "the
Westfield" to included the land extending to the land of Jesse Huffmgton .
To son George Paul Jones - If the said Robert dies without issue the farm to go to George
To son Thomas Woodland Jones - remainder of farm on Wicomico Creek
To daughters Kate and Laura and son Perry - Thomas's part and Tazwell's part if they die without issue and
remainder of estate. Also the farm called "the Noble Farm"
To son Tazwell Jones - the farm whereon Levin King (Negro) now lives known as "the Collins Farm"
Executor: wife and son George
Witness: William T. G. Polk, Hampden H. Dashiell, James U. Dennis
30 November 1870 Then came
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Severn Black (Somerset)*
17 July 1866
To wife Hetty - all estate for life
To daughter Eleanor J. Black - 4 acres where she now lives beginning at the railroad ditch for her lifetime
and then to her 3 children
To daughter Sally M. Black - 4 acres on the north side of the railroad to the line of trees on the land formerly
belonging to John Disharoon
To son Emory F. Black - lands on which I now live at the death of his mother
Witness: James Stephens, Henry Pusey, Thomas W. Hayman
13 December 1870 Then came
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Amelia James
9 March 1870
To daughter Margaret Hester Burk - house and lot which I purchased of Henry Fooks "with my own means"
as the on file in the Snow Hill clerk's office will show. This for her life
To Anna Louisa James, Sally Elizabeth James (daughters of James James of Salisbury) and Amelia Burk and
Mary Ellen Burk (daughters of Elijah Burk of Baltimore) - the above house and lot at Margaret's death
To son James James - $ 1
To Elijah Burk -$1
Executor: daughter Margaret
Witness: S. Q. Parker, George B. Gilliss, Rufus K. Truitt
22 December 1 870 Then came
^original county - will made before the creation of Wicomico
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Julia A. Kennedy (Somerset)*
19 September 1867
To Thomas J. Turpin - in trust for the use and benefit of my daughter Eglantine Jones wife of Samuel B. D.
Jones, 1/4 of my estate to be paid by him to her on an annual basis and at her death this part to go to her
children if any survive her. If daughter survives her husband, then the 1/4 part shall be paid over to her. That
Samuel B. D. Jones shall not have control her management in any way of any part of my estate
To daughter Zenophine Farrington wife of William H. Farrington - 1/4 of estate
To daughter Ellamaude Turpin wife of Thomas J. Turpin - 1/4 of estate
To grandson Hampden Dashiell son of deceased daughter Aurelia and of Hampden H. Dashiell - 1/4 part of
estate at twenty-one
Executor: son-in-law Thomas J. Turpin
Witness: James W. Dennis, William W. Wise, G. Paul Jones
22 February 1871 Then came
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Robert Layfield (Worcester)*
18 August 1865
To daughters Sally Deen Layfield and Abigal Fooks Layfield - a home where I now live "as long as they
think proper or feel satisfied to remain there"
To daughter Betsy Stewart wife of Michael Haisting - in the event of her becoming a widow, a home with m>
other daughters
To the above named daughters, and my son Ephraim Wilson Layfield, and to the 7 youngest children of my
deceased son George Layfield - all my land
To son William Quinton Layfield - $100
To wife Jane Layfield and daughters - all household items, cattle and horses
To sons William and Ephraim - farming utensils
Executor: son Ephraim
Witness: Minus B. Brown, William W. Layfield
31 January 1871 Then came
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Isaac Nichols (Worcester)*
2 December 1863
To wife Mary A. - all estate
Witness: Thomas B. Smith, R.G. Humphreys, James E. Conelly
4 February 1871 Then came
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Mary Freeny (Somerset)
23 August 1 866
That "my boddy deacently buryed in the family burying ground, and have placed to my grave tombstones
with my name and age inscribed thereon - also to have the Family burying ground enclosed with an iron
fence set in stone"
To niece Matilda M. Freeney - land bought of Lowe and Lloyd valued at $1400, but my will is that my sister
Sarah Freeny shall have the income from land for her life
To Nancy Hitch - $200
To sister Sarah Freeny - land willed by my father
To nieces Rosa Freeny , Anna Hooper, Catheron Davis, nephew Jacob Mills, - above land after sister's death
Executor: brother Elijah Freeny
Witness: William Simian, Samuel T. Williams, Winder Haisting of Wm., William N. Haisting
4 April 1871 Then came
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George W. Bounds (Somerset)*
24 April 1866
To wife Rachel Bounds - lands bought of Newton Mezick's heirs known as Partners Choice. Hard Fortune.
and White Hall for her life time. Also carriage and horse, bed and furniture six chairs, table, spinning wheel.
cook stove, waine cart, 600 pounds of bacon
To children Andrew R. Bounds, Albert M. Bounds, Elizabeth Z. Bounds, Mary A. Bounds - the above lands
after wife's death
"Whereas during my life I have given to my four oldest children namely Eleanor W. Robertson wife of
Samuel W. Robertson, William J. Bounds, Train A. Bounds, Elizabeth Armstrong wife of James Armstrong;
the tract ... where Alfred English now lives, also the tract ... where Tarr now lives; and at other times
considerable personal property" but I give to these aforesaid children a parcel of land known as Bound's
Neglect adjoining the lands of Marcellus Wealtherly
Executor: son Train
Witness: Joseph Bratten, Thomas B. Taylor, Lambert Cooper
18 April 1871 Then came
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George Riall
23 April 1868
To wife Louisa M. Raill - my home farm for life, all furniture, horse and carriage, also her dower
To son Ernest Riall - the home farm after wife's death and $500 for his education
To son John W. J. Riall - half of farm known as the Hopkins farm purchased of John Hopkins
To the heirs of my daughter Laura White - half of farm known as the Hopkins fami
To the heirs of Louisa Dougherty - half of the Dashiell farm purchased of Benjamin Dashiell
To the heirs of Delvia (Delia) E. Moore - half of the Dashiell farm
To grandson Albert H. Riall - house and lot which belonged to his father George Raill and which I purchased
of Isaac Jones trustee to sell the same and also the land purchased of Isaac Jones trustee on the east side of
the road leading from the Episcopal Church to my store
That real estate in Hungary Neck, Somerset County, purchased of Capt. John Carew be sold
That the house and lot near Fesy Quater purchased of George Wilson be sold and the proceeds go to
grandson Albert
To son John W. Raill - cancellation of his debt in lieu of giving his children a share
Executor: wife
Witness: George L. H. Woolford, H. Laird Todd, George H. White
23 May 1871 Then came
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Levin Houston
15 February 1868
To wife Ester - all estate for life
To sons Levin, John, Henry, Saul, and daughters Mary, Ann and Esther - estate after wife's death
Executor: Levin T. H. Irving, Judge
Witness: I. Nichols, T. W. Seabrease, Rosanna Vance
29 May 1871 Then came
*original county - will made before the creation of Wicomico
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Mary J. Lloyd
20 July 1868
To husband William Lloyd- land where 1 now live composed of tracts Warrington. Lions Den. Daniel
Discover)' and containing 1 17 acres
Executor: husband
Witness: E. T. Bennett, F. B. Humphreys, Thomas B. Taylor
21 June 1871 Then came
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Hetty Russell
6 September 1871
To daughter Susan Jenkins - my right, title, and interest in tract purchased by the said Susan Jenkins and
myself of Nathaniel Brown and Mary P. Brown on 9 January 1867 called Friends Discovery and containing
48 acres
To daughter s Eliza J. Evans, Sarah A. Cox, Hester E. Majors - personal estates, money notes, accounts
Executor: James Giliis
Witness: Jeremiah Bradley, Major A. Riggin, William D. D. Phillips
3 October 1871 Then came
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Leah Murray Gordy
18 September 1871
To daughters Laura F. and Estelle Gordy - house and lot in Salisbury on Church Street which 1 purchased at
the Executor sale of the real estate of my husband Samuel Gordy and sometimes called the "Evans House"
To children William S., Laura F., Estelle, Samuel - rest of propert>'
Witness: George W. Todd, Huston Humphreys, Thomas Humphreys
30 November 1871 Then came William Sydney Gordy
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James H. Robinson
12 August 1870
To sister Isabella Robinson - $1000
To father Joseph Robinson and brother Joseph Robinson - balance of estate
Executor: friend William B. Sweeten?
Witness: Samuel Ker, Mitchell Lloyd, L. B. Ker
24 January 1871
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Jacob Downs of Sussex Delaware
1 November 1871
To daughters Mary Ellen, Leonora, Wanda Jane - $200 each
To sons Elijah William Downs, David James Downs, Joshua Henry Downs - lands
Executor: Elijah Hudson
Witness: John Jones, Isaac Downs
28 November 1871 Then came
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Shady Coulboume
18 May 1870
To grandson Joshua Pollitt - bed and furniture, iron pot, red chest, crop of corn and fodder
To daughter Mary A. Pollitt wife of William - large iron pot
Witness: E. L. Wailes, W. Sydney Gordy, John D. Truitt
28 November 1871 Then came
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James K. Elliott
21 January 1871
To wife Mariah Elliott - "any one room in my dwelling which she may choose", third of personal estate,
income from land laid out by Richard Darby as plat will show. This for widowhood
To son James H. P. Elliott - where he now lives being that part of the farm on the north of my home place as
by plat laid down by Darby in December 1868. This containing 100 acres being part of the tract called
Acworth's Old Age . Also a lot of marsh land on the south side of Barren Creek containing 50 acres and also
Gilliss Venture all of which has already been given. Also carpenters tools
To grandson James Kerby - the above land if son James dies without issue. Also my home place which is part
of Acworth's Old Age. Also my cherry bedstead, wardrobe, red chest, leather trunk
"that at my death, the Orphans Court of Wicomico County appoint a propper guardian for my grandson until
my said grandson arrives at age"
Executor: friend A. J. Crawford
Witness: George Moore, George A. Bounds, John Dorman
23 January 1872 Then came
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James F. Williams
7 February 1872
To wife Henrietta - house and lot adjoining the vacant lot on Church Street in Salisbury for her life
To the children of Pumell Johnson and wife Maria Ann - proceeds from the sale of house after the death of
wife and $600 to each
To Thomas H. Williams - half of the store house on Main Street in Salisbury, one vacant lot over Humphreys
Mill and $400
To the children of George W. Leonard and Mary Jane his wife - $3000 in trust until they are of age
To George Gordy ("a colored boy I have raised") - $200 in trust until he is of age
To Mary Holloway - $200
To Henrietta Johnson - bed and furniture
" I set apart four hundred dollars for the purchase of tombstones to be placed at the graves of my father, my
mother, my sister, and my brothers"
To the trustees of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Salisbury - $300
That the farm where 1 now reside and the house and lot in that part of Salisbury called Georgetown be sold
Executor: Thomas H. Williams
Witness: Jacob C. Phillips, Jacob W. Nichols, J. M. Dashiell
7 March 1872 Then came
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Frost Pollitt
23 September 1868
To daughter Milkey - acre of land called Kobeasev
To sons Stephen and Isaac Pollitt - remainder of land containing 30 acres and being where 1 now live called
Kobleuses
To daughter Mariah - $40
To two sons and daughters Milkey, Mariah, and Sue? - remainder of estate
Executor: Mr. John E. Robertson
Witness: Benjamin Livingston, John Livingston, Peter Livingston
26 March 1872 Then came
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James Shockley
14 September 1871
To sons Levin and Isaac Shockley - the farm where 1 now live
To wife Hester - milk cow
To daughters Julia Ann wife of Ebenezer Johnson, Harriet wife of Noah Johnson, and Margaret - personal
property
Executor: son Levin
Witness: E. L. Wailes, G. W. Mezick, John D. Truitt
1 1 June 1872 Then came
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William Giles
8 May 1872
To four children now living Eliphlet Reed Giles, Thomas Giles, John H. Giles and Maria Kelly wife of John
F, Kelly -$1 each
To granddaughter Clara A. Smith wife of William Smith - $100
To grandson Alonzo Giles - $300 and my gold watch
To granddaughter Elizabeth Giles - $200
The above grandchildren are the children of deceased son Sidney
To five grandchildren William John, Franklin, Kittiana, Mary Ellen, and infant not yet named; the children of
daughter Ann Maria and her husband John F. Kelly - $500
To the children of son Sidney, the two children of son Thomas, the three children of son John H., and the
children of daughter Ann Maria - remainder of estate
Executor: son John
Witness: Thomas B. Moore, John Dorman, George M. Moore
22 June 1872 Then came
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Sally Godfrey
22 November 1871
To sister Charlotte Parsons widow of Samuel Parsons - all estate
To the children of Charlotte being Levi Parsons, Mary E. Sturgis wife of Charles - estate after sister's death
Executor: Henrietta Byrd
Witness: Alfred Bratten, J. J. Fooks, William Gordy
24 July 1872 Then came
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Dorothy Hastings
31 May 1872
To daughter Esther Bounds - house and lot at Upper Trappe known as "the Haistings Lot" and containing 2
acres provided her husband William J. Bounds shall pay the following;
To daughter Charlotte Ewell - $25
To daughter Matilda J. Crouch - $25
To daughter Susan E. Hastings - $50 when she is nineteen
To Robert J. Hitch - my right and title in the tract at Upper Trappe known as "the Hitch Lot"
Witness: Levin B. Price, Elisha Simms, William J. Twilley
30 July 1872 Then came
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Jesse Waller
14 February 1871
To son Handy Irving Waller - all estate
Executor: son
Witness: Perry O. Nelson, Thomas J. Turpin, John W. Turpin
16 September 1872 Then came
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Ralph Lowe
6 June 1872
To grandson William J. Bounds - all my farms containing 550 acres except that portions which is fenced in
with the Dorman Farm and house and lot and the family grave yard
To grandchildren Ralph Lowe Crawford and Mary E. Crawford - the above if William dies without issue
To grandson Ralph Lowe Crawford - the Wilson Farm containing 300 acres
To granddaughter Mary E. Crawford - the Dorman Farm containing 140 acres and the Bradley land
containing 300 acres and to go to grandsons if she dies without issue
To daughter Rachel W. Moore wife of Thomas B. - $3000
That the land known as the Sam Brown House and lot be sold
That the grave should be enclosed with an iron fence and "tomb stones set up at my grave and at the graves
of each of my wives"
To Mary Lowe ("colored woman") - house and lot on the home farm near the grave yard
To John Andrew Jackson ("colored man") - $100
To Thomas Lowe ("colored boy") - $100
To Sarah daughter of Mary Lowe ("colored") - $50
Executor: daughter Rachel Moore
Witness: James W. Cantwell, Thomas B. Taylor, James W. Eversham
1 October 1872 Then came
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Handy Hayman
29 August 1871
To son John H. Hayman - farm on which I now live running by and with the county road until it intersects
with the line of Barren Neck
To wife Elizabeth -$100
To son William W. Hayman - part of tract Mill Lot on the north side of a fox ditch which runs to the line of
Lewis Pollitt
To granddaughter Caroline Hayman - the above if son William dies without issue
To son David J. Hayman - balance of Mill Lot for his lifetime
To grandson Joseph Hayman - the above after David's death
To daughter Louisa Jane Hayman - part of tract Fooks Cash or Cost at the east of my line for her lifetime
To grandson John H. Livingston - the above after Louisa's death
To daughter Elizabeth Hobbs - $100
To daughter Polly Hobbs - $100
To daughter Harriet Riggin - $100
To daughter Jane Hayman - $100
To daughter Matilda Livingston - $100
To daughter Eleanor Pollitt - $100
Executor: son David
Witness: Levin M. Dashiell, James Dykes, James Vincent
9 October 1 872 Then came
Filed 9 January 1873 Elizabeth Hayman wife of Handy Hayman deceased quit all claims made by the last
will and testament of my husband and take my right of dower
Witness: George Bell
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Samuel Williams (Somerset)*
26 August 1863
To son Emory L. Williams and daughter Sally Ann Williams - land on the north side of the road leading from
Salisbury to Tony Tank Mills with all stock and furniture
To wife Margaret - a home for widowhood "the same as she ever had". Also my house and lot in Salisbury
lying in Worcester County on the east side of Division Street adjoining the lot belonging to William B.
Tilghman. Also Negro men Peter (to Samuel after wife's death) and George (to son Emory after wife's
death) and women Jane (to Sally Ann after wife's death) and Emiline (to my daughter Amanda and her
children Edward, Charles, Margaret and Samuel)
To son Samuel T. Williams - tract lying at the pond between Dashiell's Mill and the old county road to be
sold and monies used to pay his debts
To the children of daughter Amanda and son Samuel - part of tract on the east side of the new county road
leading from Salisbury to Tony Tank. If not needed to pay his debts, this part may go to Samuel's children
after his death
Executor: son Emory
Witness: R. H. Adkins, Lester Overton, Rufus K. Truitt
24 August 1872 Then came
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George M. Fooks
21 April 1871
"that my body be decently intered in the Family burying ground on the Farm where 1 now live"
To son George W. - cow and three sheep
To daughter Anna R. Fooks - balance of estate
To wife Mary - her dower
Executor: Samuel Fooks
Witness: Joseph M. Parker, James Disharoon, Winder Haistings
19 November 1872 Then came
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Phiilis Nutter
22 July 1873
To grandchildren Sanford A. Taylor, Willie A. Toadvine, John G. Taylor, Laura V. Taylor, William P.
Causey, James B. Causy, Richard A. Causey, Sarah E. Causey, Louvenia Causey, and Martha Tilghman -
proceeds from the sale of my farm Golden Quarter containing 200 acres and on the road from Salisbury to
Snow Hill
To daughters Mary A. Pollett and Sallie Causey - personal estate
Executor: grandson William P. Causey
Witness: 1. S. Adams, James Causey, John W. Smith
3 December 1873 Then came
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Nancy Gordy
To sister Emiline Bayly wife of Thomas C. Bayley - $700
To niece Betsy Bayly - gilt frame looking glass, two silver teaspoons
To niece Mary Ann wife of William Dawson - $100
To niece Nancy Francis Dennis - new quilt
To niece Margaret Rounds - $100
To niece Leah Famey Rounds - $50
To niece Sophia E. Rounds - $50
To niece Sally Disharoon wife of Robert - $100
To niece Leah E. Banks wife of Gammaiel Banks - $100
To niece Jane Flemming wife of Thomas - $50
To niece Jane Gordy wife of Samuel Gordy - $100
Tp nieces Elizabeth wife of Vincent Moore, Ann M. Gordy, Victoria Gordy, Martha Gordy ; daughters of m\
deceased brother Benjamin Gordy - $75 each
To Thomas W. Bayly, Samuel B, Bayly, Elijah M, Bayly, Leoni E. Bayly. Betsy E. Bayly, and Nancy F.
Dennis; children of my sister - residue of estate
Executor: nephew Thomas W. Bayly (Bailey)
Witness: Thomas B. Smith, L. P. Humphrey, T. A. Smith
23 January 1873 Then came
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Thomas Littleton of E.
13 January 1873
To daughter Hetty Ann Littleton - part of tract Littleton's Delight and Hickory Point lying on the south side
of a line drawn from the bounder of Mill Lot and Beaver Dam Ridge to the west end of the fence that divides
my home farm from where Miller A. Layton now lives thence with the fence to the lot owned by Mina? C.
Littleton at the time of his death and then with the line to the county road leading from Powellsville to
Pittsville
To step-son Thomas A. Littleton - part of tract on the north side of the county road from Powellsville to
Pittsville and $50
To daughter Mary Adaline Littleton and granddaughter Nancy Emeline Littleton - the home farm Littleton's
Delight not already devised
To step-daughter Rosina Dennis - $250
To Mary Jane Robbins - bed and furniture
Executor: Hiram J. Dennis and Thomas A. Littleton who are to take care of daughter Mary Adaline and
granddaughter Nancy Emeline until Nancy is of age and to see to Hetty Ann's farm while she is unmarried
Witness; Henry D. Powell, Milbem A. Layton, Daniel Shockley
15 February 1873 Then came
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Milcah Horsey
24 April 1873
To Westley Wallis - bureau, tin safe, clock
To Sarah Ann Milbom C'cof) - $50
To Mary Ann Wallis - balance of property
Executor: James Gillis
Witness: Samuel B. Jones, Levin A. H. Walton, W. W. Lowe
6 May 1873 Then came
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Elijah Toadvine
19 September 1871
To daughter Milly Hayman and Polly Mcgrath and Caroline Grey and Ann's children who are Stephen F.
Toadvine, Elijah T. Toadvine, John T. Toadvine, and Esther A. Toadvine - proceeds from the sale of 50
acres part of Fooks Cost, part of Long Acre, and part of Fort Neck, and part of Barn Neck lying in the fork of
two ditches opposite Handy Hayman's
To wife Priscilla Toadvine - personal property I have from our marriage and a cow purchased at Widon
Disharoon's sale and a lot opposite my house over the county road for her life, one room in my house and
access to all other rooms and her thirds
To son Wesley - the above lot after wife's death and land not already given
To son Stephen Toadvine - two shares of railroad stock and the note 1 hold against him
To son James Toadvine - 25 cents
To son Henry T. Toadvine - 25 cents
That a small head and foot stone be placed at my first wife's, Easther, grave
Executor: son Henry
Witness: Levin M. Dashiell, Pary (Perry) R. Pollitt, John W. Riggin
8 July 1873 Then came
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Benjamin Parsons
5 March 1868
To wife Martha - "by marriage contract she is to receive $5000 in lieu of all other claims to my estate" and
also $500
To wife's sisters Margaret Elliott of Indiana and Priscilla Meek of Iowa - $1000 if my wife should not be
living to receive the amounts given to her
To any child borne of my marriage to Martha - a fair portion of estate
To Jacob, Martha and Rhody (my former slaves) - if they remain with me for my lifetime, use of the house
standing on the east side of Poplar Hill Avenue and in the northwest corner of the lot with ground up to the
well and Burks fence. The house is not to be sold as long as they need it for their own use and $200 for their
needs. If either become disabled, they should be supported by my estate
To former slave Sam - $50
If any if my former slaves wish to leave the State; $50 to aid in their removal
To Vestry of Spring Hill Parish of the Protestant Episcopal Church for the use of Saint Peters Church in
Salisbury - a lot of ground on the road to Laurel Delaware from Salisbury where my family burying ground
is; the grave yard now enclosed to be extended 30' west and north and south until it is 90' wide and east up
the said road. Also $1000 for upkeep of the church
To Benjamin Heam (on whose property I hold a mortgage) - $100 each to the children of his last wife
To Benjamin Heam an invalid in Delaware son of Noah and Zessy? Heam - $200
To Martha E. Ward daughter of Cyrus Ward in Delaware - $200 provided she remains with me for my
lifetime
To Amelia Parsons or Tumer "if living" - $ 1 00
To the children of Lambert Adkins by his wife Clarissa - $100
To Laben Adkins son of Nimrod - $150
To Betsy, Sally and Susan daughters of David Mills - $100 each
To Robert J. Waller of George (in Monie on Somerset County) - $200
ToRufusParsonsofl.- $200
To Benjamin Parsons of Samuel - $400
To John Brewington of William in Indiana - $200
To Ebenezer and Thomas Heam in Iowa - $200 each
The following to only take effect if I not have children at the time of my death:
To Ebenezer Parsons in Kentucky - $300
To Nancy Brewington in Kentucky - $300
To Elijah Parsons's children in the west - $300
To Jonathan Parson's children - $500 to be divided among them
To Hannah and William Parker's children - $150
To Molly and Curtis Dixon's children - $400 to be divided
To Franky and Lowdy Christopher's children somewhere in the west - $400 to be divided
To Hannah and John Melson's children in the south or in the west - $400 to be divided
To Peter Freeny- $150
To William Freeny -$150
To Joshua Freeny - $50 and a judgement of long standing against him and Bill Parker of Elisha
To Rider Adkins - $300
To Betsy Smith sister of Rider Adkins - $200
To Milby Adkins Junior - $200
To Amelia Adkins sister of Milby - $200
To Noah Adkins's children - $300 to be divided
To Sally Walston's children - $400 to be divided
To Stanton Adkins in Indiana or Ohio - S300
To Benjamin and Reubin Adkins in the south or the west, brothers of Stanton - $500 to be divided
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To Henny Coulboum sister to the Adkins - $500
To William Adkins's children - $400 to be divided
To Elijah Adkin's daughter who married a Parsons - $100 or to her children "if she be dead" or if Elijah has
any other daughter; she may receive the $100
To Stanton Adkins son of Elijah - $100
To Stanton's brother Elijah in Delaware - $10
"the residue ... I desire divided among my second and third cousins on my father's side. .. By second cousins
I mean those whose parents were my first cousins and by third cousins those parents are my second cousins"
"If my second or third cousins in the south or west or any other person mentioned in this will do not appear
... to make their demand in due time, they shall be excluded"
"the sale of real estate ... shall be sometime within three years from date of administration"
Executor: Levin T. H. Irving Esq. and Milton A. Parsons
Witness: Samuel Gordy, Levin A. Parsons, A. J. Rounds
1 August 1873 Then came
Codicil #1 to above will of Benjamin Parsons
26 January 1870
To Robert Heam of Benjamin - $80
Revoke the clause to Laban Adkins son of Nimrod, but give his children $100 each
Revoke the clause that gives Ebenezer Heam anything, give the same to Thomas Heam
Revoke the clause giving to Stanton Adkins in Indiana, to his brothers Reuben and Benjamin in the south or
west and give to William Adkins's children $500, except James who is excluded. Henny Coulboum and
James Adkins are now excluded. To William Adkins's children. I exclude his son James Adkins of any part
until he pays a bill of sale 22 April 1867
To wife - all the gold and silver on hand
Witness: Samuel Gordy, Levin A. Parsons, W. Sydney Gordy
1 August 1873 Then came
Codicil #2 to above will of Benjamin Parsons
29 April 1873
To Vicey Brewington, daughter of David Mills, now living in Iowa - $100
Witness: George Todd
I August 1873 Then came
Codicil #3 to above will of Benjamin Parsons
27 May 1873
Revoke the clause giving $100 to the children of Clarissa Adkins and devise as follows:
As Clarissa and her son Elijah have paid me the amount they owe me, then I give to each of her children
$100 each
Revoke the clause to Stanton and Elijah Adkins sons of Elijah but now do devise to Stanton and brother
"E_"- $10 to be divided
Revoke the clause giving to Margaret Elliott of Indiana and Priscilla Meek of Iowa; now give them $1000
each to be divided among their children
If my named Executors fail to settle this will, I appoint William Birckhead, merchant
Witness: George W. Todd, H. Laird Todd
I August 1873 Then came
(Cont.)
Codicil #4 to above will of Benjamin Parsons
12 June 1873
In lieu of the provisions made to my wife: 1 give to my said wife the house and lot where I now live
beginning with the street east of the lot running north and south and with the street to a cedar
Revoke the clause giving to Negroes Jacob and Rhody each $100 and give that sum to my wife
To Benjamin Parsons of Samuel - $200 and note of hand from the said Benjamin for $200
Witness: Thomas T. J. Rider, Harvey Ward, William Fulton
I August 1873 Then came
Testamentary Paper
31 January 1873 by Benjamin Parsons
"Martha Ellen Ward, daughter of Cyrus and Caroline Ward of Delaware. The said M. E. Ward came to live
with me in March 1 866 and have been a prudent girl, in addition to my devise to her in my will 1 give her the
bed and furniture, bedstead, and furniture in her sleeping room, one large looking glass in the dining room,
one mahogany secretary in my bedroom to have and to hold possession of at my time after it may please
providence to call me hence"
Witness: Benjamin Parsons of Samuel
II August 1873 Then came
Testamentary Paper #2
31 January 1873 by Benjamin Parsons
"Martha M. Parsons, my dear wife. In addition to my devise to you in my will, I give all my coin in gold and
silver of hand, silver spoons and ladle, two the best floor carpets, one bedstead and furniture, one first choice
looking glass, marble table, rocking chair and half dozen chairs and choice of one gold watch"
Witness: Benjamin Parsons of Samuel
1 1 August 1873 Then came
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Jehu Mills
22 August 1873
To daughter Martha W. Collins, son Edward G. Mills, daughter Amelia A. Mills - $ I each
To son Jacob W. A. Mills - residue of estate
That the farm where I now live be sold at the death of my wife
Executor: son Jacob
Witness: H. Laird Todd, Thomas B. Cooper, Richard Stephens
20 September 1873 Then came
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Isaac Brewington
11 August 1873
To son Alexander W. Brewington - my long lot at the southeast end of my tract Knights Tract on the south
side of the ferry road the northern of side lot to be a line with the fence on the northwest end and with the
ditch on the same end from ferry road on the north to Simon Malone's lot on the south
To son William H. - the lot northwest of son Alexander
To daughters Leah J. Brewington and Hester Brewington - 2 acres northwest of William's each lot to front
on the county road leading to the Upper Ferry
To son Isaac W. - lot north of daughter Hester's
To son George F. - lot in front of his home situated between Isaac W. Brewington's home lot and the lot
given to Isaac by me
To daughter Mary A. Fooks - residue of my tract
Witness: Levin B. Price, Rufus Fields, Columbus Davis
23 September 1873 Then came
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William J. Langrell
11 October 1873
That my body be "plainly and decently interred at Tyaskin Church P. E.
To children - residue of property after debts are paid
To wife Mary - "one colt and carriage with my dying affection and sincere regret that I cannot better provide
for her comfort and happiness"
Executor: James E. Eliegood
Witness: William J. Leonard, Samuel A. Langrell, Thomas J. Parks
21 October 1873 Then came
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James Morris
8 February 1871
To wife Sally - half of home farm her lifetime
To son Thomas C. Morris - half of farm and wife's half of farm at her death and also tract of 50 acres called
Carey's Folly and 5 acres of Collins Lot
To Levin F. Morris (son?) - $400
"the outline of the land that is to be divided is joining William P. Morris, Josiah McGrath, Michael Carey
and John Robinson ... containing 400 acres"
To son Samuel J. - land adjoining the mills and half of mills
To William P. Morris and Amandy Pollitt - Samuel's share if his children die before they are of age
To Emmy Paton-$ 100
To son William P. Morris - 1/4 of mills and tract called Hog Range or a swamp called Justice Swamp
adjoining the lands of Henry Robinson. This land on the south side of the road from the comer of John
Morris's new ground until it strikes the line of Carev's Folly
To son Jacob Morris - 1/4 of mills
To daughter Matildy Hayman - 12 raikoad shares
To son John Morris - land that he has in cultivation called "the new ground" and tract Hopewell containing
79 acres and tract Timber Range of 169 acres
To daughter Amandy Pollitt - tract called Holefast that 1 bought of Jane Pollitt
Executor: son Thomas
Witness: Benjamin H. Parker, Levem W. Fooks, Washington (Samuel W.) Parker
18 November 1873 Then came
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Betsy Parker (Worcester)*
12 November 1856
To son John - bed and furniture
To daughter Elizabeth Hearn Parker - Negroes Amanda, Anne and Jane
To granddaughter Matilda Elizabeth Malone - Negroes if daughter dies without issue
Executor: son John W. Parker
Witness: John White, John H. White Junior, Levin T. H. Irving
6 January 1 874 Then came
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John M. Maddux
20 October 1873
To Eliza A. Carey - my farm of 96 acres and personal estate
Witness: Levin B. Price, Azariah P. Disharoon, James H. Stanford
22 November 1873 Then came
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John T. Graham
2 February 1874
To son James Stewart Graham - colt
To wife Leah - real estate and personal property
To children Mary E. Crockett, Zipporah J. Graham, J. Stewart Graham, Emma A. Graham, Jasper W.
Graham, George W. Graham - property' after wife's death
Executor: wife
Witness: George Lowe, T. W. H. Mitchell, George W. Parsons
3 March 1874 Then came
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John W. Banks
18 April 1872
To wife Margaret E. Banks - 1/3 of the Schooner Kadi, household goods, cattle
To son Granville Banks - 60 acres being the home place which was given by my mother, Esther Banks, and
the rest 1 purchased from the heirs
To daughter Mary E. Banks - residue of land
To younger daughters Martha, Emma Virginia, and Amelia Banks - $300 each at 16 years
Executor: wife
Witness: George L. H. Woolford, Henry W. Anderson, Columbus Anderson
28 March 1874 Then came
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Esther Parsons
18 October 1873
That "my body be plainly but decently interred in the old burying ground on the farm now owned by my son
George"
To sons Milton A. Parsons and William Sidney Parsons and my granddaughter Hester Hammond of
Worcester County - residue of estate
Executor: son William
Witness: L. Dix Warren, Elihu E. Jackson, James E. Ellegood
31 March 1874 Then came
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Esmy (Esme) Barkley
25 April 1874
To daughter Julia A. Barkley - all estate
Executor: friend John Turner
Witness: William Walter, Richard H. Dawson. William P. Crosby
7 July 1874 Then came
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Margaret Gordy
25 June 1872
To son Levi Gordy - tract received at the distribution of my father estate called Fovs Discovery
To daughter Maria E. F. Rayne - the farm where she and her husband now live which is north of the lands of
James Whaley except that given to son Levi
To daughter Mary J. Patty - half of the land between the land of John K. Massey on the north and John Patty
on the south
To grandchildren Eliza M. Rayne, John G. Massey, Sallie M. Massey. William L. D. Massey. James D.
Massey, Lemuel E. Massey. Ida M. Massey, Rachel L. Massey - the other share of the above land
To daughter Laura A. Williams - $5
Executor: son Levi
Witness: William J Leonard, F. C. Todd, Levi Duncan
25 August 1874 Then came
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Amelia M. Mills
8 October 1874
To children Martha W. Collins, Edward G. Mills, Amelia E. Mills - all property
Executor: son Edward
Witness: George B. Perry, Joseph Waller, H. Laird Todd
27 October 1874 Then came
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Jennie M. C. Trader
23 June 1874
To daughter Ida E. Trader - all personal property
To R. W. S. Trader - real estate in trust for my son Robert until he is able to support himself
Executor: son R. W. S. Trader
Witness: John L. Trader, Elizabeth E. Trader, Thomas Humphreys
1 1 December 1874 Then came
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Ichabod Taylor
7 October 1 874
To son Cadmus - tract where he now lives called the Metzin? Farm except that part on the right hand side of
the road leading to Noah White's. The rest to be sold
To son Algernon Sidney Taylor - tract Pompev's Point except the part taken off by straightening the line at
the Hitch farm until it reaches Robert Claywell's land
To sons Andrew J. Taylor and Orlando W. Taylor - portion of the home or Hitch tract as lies north of a line
drawn from the crossing of the run at Luther Williams's farm until it reaches F. C. Todd's farm
To George Handy Taylor - remainder of home farm with the understanding that my wife has a home for life
and my daughter until she marries, also my youngest son Lee until he is of age
To son Lee P. Taylor and daughter Elizabeth Taylor - $1600 to be paid from my life policy
To wife Emiline - household items
Executor: son George
Witness: H. Laird Todd, Josiah Johnson, Hugh Ellingsworth
12 January 1875 Then came
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Richard R. Stephens
17 March 1875
To son Thomas - the "Kate mare and her colt" and the Mttle cow and her calf
To Thomas and the rest of the children - remainder of property
Witness; William Hasting, Stephen E. Ellis
17 April 1875 Then came Susan Stephens
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George Todd
14 November 1874
To wife Sarah F. Todd - all property
Executor; wife
Witness; E. W. B. Acworth, E. K. Hooper, Esther E. Dashiell
25 June 1875 Then came
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William Shockley
24 December 1872
To son Christopher C. - all land, except what is otherwise given, which 1 bought of Benjamin Gravenor and
wife and of Elizabeth Russel conveyed to me by deed dated 10 May 1856 and containing 30 acres and 2
acres of the home place which is to be laid off on the line between me and William Bacon
To sons Benjamin Jackson Shockley and Sylvester Stewart Shockley - farm where 1 now live
To son Thomas Shockley - $217 for which I hold a note on from him for the purchase money on the house he
purchased of me together with 21 acres of the home farm
To daughter Elizabeth D. Bennett - 80 cents per month for her life and in case she should become afflicted,
my sons to provide for her
To daughter Sarah Caroline Bennett - 6 acres of my home place to be laid off on the north side of Long
Branch adjoining the land of A. H. Bradley and two acres adjoining the lot that belonged to my deceased son
Napoleon Shockley
To daughter Alberta Maloney Vincent - 8 acres of the home place on the western side adjoining the lands of
Obadiah Darby and William W. Bennett and extending to the line of Isaac English
To wife Eleanor Shockley - her dower
Executor: James B. Armstrong
Witness; William F. Wilson, William Howard, Thomas W. Wilson
17 August 1875 Then came
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Washington H. Robertson
5 August 1875
To wife Priscilla - my plantation in Tyaskin District for 7 years and then her thirds
To sons Rilon, Oscar, Rufus and daughters Hester and Mary - the remainder of plantation
Executor; son Rilon
Witness; William J. Wailes, Rowland L. Taylor, Isaac F. Mezick
18 October 1875 Then came
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Pumell Davis
19 November 1875
To Henry H. Bounds - one double barrel shot gun, trunk and clothing
To Henry Denson's oldest male child - remainder of property
Witness: Mary E. White, Mary F. Malone, Levin W. Malone
30 November 1875 Then came
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Isme Bayley
16 August 1869
To wife Nancy - carriage, one creature, curtain bedstead, chest, clock, crockery, meat and lard, all fowl
To sons Hilry, Josiah, Silas - blacksmith tools
To daughter Clarissey, Frances, Martha, Mary - money on hand
Executor: wife Nancy
Witness: Joshua Lewis, Hester Williams
8 February 1 876
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Mary Siemens ( Somerset)*
4 December 1862
To Albert B. Slemons, Francis M. Siemens, Clara Morris wife of Louis W. Morris; children of my late
husband John B. Slemons - all property
That Negroes shall be appraised according to their value and they be taken by my step-sons as a third part of
the estate. They Negroes being Elijah, Kitty and her children. Bob, Nancy, and Saul
Executor: Albert B. Slemons and Francis M. Slemons sons of my husband
Witness: Lemuel Malone, Lizzie S. Gunby, James Brereton
! January 1 868 Codicil to the above will
To John Brown Slemons second son of Albert B. Slemons - silver urn and cream cup
To Bettie Morris Slemons daughter of F. Marion Slemons - silver ladle
To Clara Estelle Morris daughter of Louis W. Morris - my gold watch
To Louis White Morris son of Louis W. Morris - my library case
24 March 1876 Then came
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Mary J. Williams
2 February 1876
To husband Robert D. Williams - my share of my deceased mother's, Sally Disharoon, estate
Executor: husband
Witness: George W. M. Cooper, Herbert Williams
1 April 1876 Then came
^original county - will made before the creation of Wicomico
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Hetty Bradley
3 September 1875
To Hester Mills wife of Moneius Mills "in consideration of the kind treatment and attention received" of her
- bed and furniture, wash bowl and pitcher, large rocking chair
To son William H. Bradley - gum dining table
To daughter Ellenor O. Neal of Dorchester - blue chest and spinning wheel
To son Benjamin Bradley - bed and furniture and stand table
To son Jacob Bradley - stand table, coffee pot. small flag bottom chair
To granddaughter Julia Bradley - small rocking chair
To granddaughter Phillis Julia Bradley - loom
To daughter Ellenor and granddaughter Hester Mills - wearing apparel
Executor: sons William and Benjamin
Witness: L.M. Bradley, Thomas Robertson, Elisha P. Bennett, William R. Gilliss
4 April 1876 Then came
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James Lloyd
I April 1876
To wife Rachel "for her kindness to me both in health and in sickness" - all my personal property
Witness: Sarah J. Brown
20 June 1876 Then came Ralph Lloyd and made oath that this is the will of James Lloyd
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John Kreutzer
no date
To wife - property for life
To son John A. - farm after wife's death
To daughter Mary B. Kreutzer - that part of my property where John Phipps and Marandy Phipps now live
Executor: wife
Witness: John E. Phipps, George Ward, Billy H. Farlow
29 April 1876 Then came Sarah Kreutzer
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William Leatherbury
6 May 1876
To Little Zion M. E. Church - $25 to be left in the hands of Bayard Brown
To wife Betsy - proceeds from sale of ("excepting the house which is Henry Jones's) all land consisting of 4
acres adjoining the land of Levin Cooper and Peter Ennis, the same which 1 bought of Leonard Brown
Executor: Bayard Brown
Witness: Severn B. Cooper, Thomas W. English, Baynard Brown
13 May 1876 Then came
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Leah Tull
1 May 1876
To eldest son Samuel Q. Tull - 2 acres of land where on Henry Tull now lives
To son Henry Tull - 2 acres where Henry now lives
To granddaughter Mary E. Tull - 2 acres of land where on Henr\' Tull now lives
To son George W. Tull - the balance of land
Witness: S. B. Price, Levin B. Price, John D. Malone, William Dashiell
3 June 1876 Then came
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James Mc Jones
5 May 1876
To wife Mary Ann - house and lot in Quantico for widowhood. Also lot or field near Wesley Disharoon's
house on the county road leading to Nutter's Neck my meeting house field that 1 bought at Doc. W. Taylor's
sale
To children Albert L. Jones, James M. Jones, Thomas R. Jones. Roberta F. Jones and Madora A. Andrews
wife of John Andrews - the above after wife's widowhood
Executor: wife and Albert L. Jones
Witness; Thomas B. Moore, William H. H. Dashiell, Benjamin E. Moore
13 June 1876 Then came
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Maria C. Walston widow of Thomas A. Walston deceased quit ail claims made by the last will and testament
of my husband and take my right of dower
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Thomas A. Walston
25 June 1876
To wife and son George - farm called Wainwright's Hard Luck being the land left by my father; my wife to
have her third for her life
Executor: E. Q. Watson, E. M. Walston
Witness: H. Laird Todd, Billy H. Holloway, John D. Perdue
3 July 1876 Then came
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Lovey C. C. Smith
6 August 1873
To grandniece Lillian Dennis - 25 cents
To Margaret Corbin - $30
To living brothers and sisters - remainder of estate
"1 hereby expressly forbid Levin S. H. Smith to pay the money for which he is security for John B. Collins
Executor: brother Levin S. H. Smith
Witness: Ritchie Fooks, J. J. Fooks
11 July 1876 Then came
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Harry Stanford (free Negro man) (Somerset)*
11 October 1853
To Levin T. H. Irving Esq. - all estate in trust for my wife Matty during her lifetime and after her death in
trust for him to lay off one half acre of land with the house and to hold that in trust for my daughter Mary
Slemons slave of Albert B. Siemens when she shall become free
To children George, James, Lydia, Caroline, Elizabeth, Emily, William - remainder of estate in trust
Executor; Levin T. H. Irving Esq.
Witness: A. G. Grove, Samuel A. Graham, M. Heam
17 July 1876 Then came
"original county - will made before the creation of Wicomico
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Priscilla Lankford (Somerset)*
17 January 1862
To daughter Mary Levinia - land on the west side of the road leading from the old mill dam to Mrs. Susan
Insley
To granddaughter Mary Wesley Dunn - acre on the south east corner of my land
To son Edward Washington - residue of land
To daughter Susan J. Jarrett wife of Jarrett - Negro woman Pat
Executor: Esau D. Insley (if 1 die while my children are minors)
Witness: Christopher C. Donoho, Alfra D. Mezick, Esau S. D. Insley
28 July 1876 Then came
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Josiah McGrath
29 September 1873
To wife Eleanor - land of 300 acres for widowhood
To oldest son John William McGrath - $600 or the equivalent in land
To children John William, daughter Celes Blanch McGrath. daughter Corsett Gilliss McGrath. daughter
Demina F. McGrath - remainder of estate after wife's widowhood
Executor: wife
Witness: I. H, A Dulany, L. W. T. Carey, Henry S. Dulany
28 July 1876 Then came
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Ebenezer Disharoon
1 January 1876
To wife Charlotte - house and lot for widowhood
To daughters Ursula C. Ennis, Margaret J. F. Whayland, Martha W. Barclay, Theodolia A. Smith - house and
lot after wife's widowhood
To son Ebenezer - book case and secretary, tools and tool chest
To son Alexander C. C. - bed and furniture
To grandchildren Mary W. Whayland, Charles L. Whayland, Sallie Whayland (children of Columbia E.
Whayland)- $10 each
Executor: son Ebenezer L.
Witness: W. W. Thorington, J. Hopkins Tarr. Edward E. Davis
13 August 1877 (sic) (may be 1876)Then came
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Mary A. White wife of John White
12 July 1876
To daughter Mary V. Dashiell - home and lot on Main Street in Salisbur>' where I now live reserving for my
daughter Hannah L. W. White a room in said house and the use of the parlor "and further reserving the use
of the store and dwelling, which I give to my husband John White, during his life, with the condition that he
pay to said Mary Dashiell annually a sum of money sufficient to clothe."
To Clarence C. Waller - house and lot on Division Street in Salisbur>' occupied by John P. Owens as a store
and dwelling and the rents to be paid to my daughter Amelia P. Waller
To the children of William and Amelia P. Waller and the children of Charles F. and Emily G. E. Dashiell
(being Mary E. Waller, Clarence C. Waller. Agnes D. Waller, Virginia W. Waller, Frank G. Waller, Charles
W. Dashiell, Mary Louisa Dashiell -) proceeds from the sale of the house and lot on Church Street,
adjoining the residence of Matthias J. Toadvine, and also the money owed by A. Frank Parsons and Levin
Dorman
(Cont.)
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To children John H. White and Hannah L. W. White - money owed from the estate of Isaac Anderson
That the furniture in my house "both useful and omamentar' be left for the use of husband and daughters
Mary V. Dashiell and Hannah L. W. White
Executor: husband
Executor: Handy Fooks, John Brohawn, Samuel A. Graham
18 August 1876 Then came
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Joshua P. Bennett of Sharptown
2 September 1870
To sister Priscilla A. Bennett - the house and lot in Sharptown where I now live and rest of property
Executor: sister
Witness: Richard Darby, John Robinson of Eli, James Robinson of E.
10 October 1876 Then came
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William Laws
6 January 1876
To sons James and William - tract called The Promised Land which was granted to William Laws 1 May
1851. Beginning at the original bounder marked by a stone of a tract called Bush Ridge resurveyed by Robert
Kelly on 23 February 1796 it being also the beginning bounder of a tract called Strife surveyed by George
Truitt on 20 January 1 794; from thence to the lands formerly belonging to George Truitt and now in the
possession of James Adkins
To son James - land purchased of John Kelly, 24 March 1857, and land purchased of William Freeny and
wife, 6 September 1858
To son William L. - land purchased of John E. H, Marshall and others to divide the estate of Henry W. Jarvis
deceased which is described in a deed dated 12 July 1856
To children James, William, Mary Jane Pumell, Leah Catherine Williams, and the children of my deceased
daughter Margaret Burbage - rest and residue of estate
Executor: sons William and James
Witness: Handy Fooks, John J. Parsons, Charles F. Holland
16 January 1877 Then came
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Eliza A. Carey
20 January 1877
To grandson James H. Sanders - my farm of 96 acres in Trappe District
To daughter Angeline Sanders - the farm where she now lives containing 250 acres
Executor: Joseph S. C. Allen
Witness: Levin B. Price, Goldsborough H. Phippin, James H. Stanford
20 February 1877 Then came
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James Causey
28 January 1874
To wife Harriett W. - all property for widowhood
To grandson Elisha C. Parsons - half of personal property and my home a part of Security and Golden
Quarter containing 60 acres all on the west end of my farm up to the fence near Levin Causey's store house
on the opposite side of the road called the county road to Snow Hill at my wife's death
To grandson George Washington Causey - the east end of my farm
Executor: wife
Witness: Benjamin H. Parker, L. Ernest Williams, John E. Parker
19 April 1877 Then came
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John Parsons
1 January 1875
To wife Theresa - personal property and two lots one on each side of the county road leading from the main
county road which leads from Fruitland (formerly Forktown) to the Upper Trappe and from which road
running to Upper Ferry
To daughter Hester Jane Handy - the above after wife's death
Witness: John H. Brinkley, J. H. A. Dulany
2 May 1877 Then came
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William H. Rider
5 August 1876
To children Alice B. Rider, William H. Rider, Noah H. Rider, John Rider - $2000 each
To wife Margaret - all household and kitchen furniture
To children William and Alice - all my books
The following real estate be sold:
The house lot on Main Street in Salisbury now occupied by me the same that was conveyed to me by the
President and Directors of the Bank of Salisbury by deed dated 1 October 1842.
The lot and building in Salisbury at the northwest corner of Main Street and Division Street, the first floor
which is now occupied by my son Granville Rider, a part of which was conveyed to me by Noah Rider by
deed dated 14 January 1854 and a part by deed from James Holland and wife and Samuel A. Graham dated 6
September 1863.
A small farm containing about 40 acres called Rayne Place and lying near Tony Tank mills.
A lot in Salisbury adjoining the lot of William Smith containing granary and stables the same that was
conveyed to me by deed from James M. Fooks and Benjamin Parsons dated about 9 Januar\' 1860.
A lot on Newton Street in Camden of about 3 acres conveyed to me by deed from John Williams and Salh
Hooper dated about 14 March 1846.
The house and lot on the east side of Camden Street adjoining the lot of Sarah E. Dashiell wife of Levin
Dashiell the same that was conveyed to me from Isaac H. Houston and wife by deed dated 16 February 1870.
To children Granville, Latitia Rider, Mary E. Houston wife of Isaac H. Houston, Annie F. Jackson wife of
Elihu Jackson, Alice Rider, William Rider, Noah Rider, John Rider - rest and residue of estate
Executor: son Granville and son-in-law E. Jackson
Witness: James Cannon, Henry Brewington, Amos W. Woodcock
12 June 1877 Then came
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William R. Ellis
21 April 1877
To wife Elizabeth J. Ellis - all estate for life or widowhood and then divided as follows
To eight children - personal estate after wife's widowhood
To son Joseph J. - that part of my farm where he now lives that is west of the line beginning at the county
road and runs north to the Delaware State Line
To sons Levin W., Robert A., William M. - $100 each
To daughters Lavinia Elizabeth, Julia Hester, and Cora Ellen Longstreet - $200 each
To son Stephen T. Ellis - the farm on which I now live which is east of the above line
To son Robert - a note held against him for $200
To son Levin - a note against him for $200
Executor: son Levin
Witness: Adolphus Garrison, Stephen E. Ellis, Samuel E. Fortay
13 June 1877 Then came
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Emeline Phillips ( Somerset)*
1 7 February 1 866
To nephew Isaac H. A. Dulany - all property including the interest in the trust fund of my brother's estate
Witness: Levin T. H. Irving, James H. Williams, T. W. H. Mitchell
2 July 1877 Then came
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Thomas B. Smith
7 June 1877
To daughter Emma L. Moore wife of E. B. Moore - my piano
That the following real estate in Salisbury be sold:
House and lot on Division Street known as the post office property to include all the vacant ground from
Mrs. Henrietta Parker's to the line of A. F. Parsons.
My interest in the Seminary lot owned in partnership with Col. Samuel A. Graham and Capt. William M.
Ruark.
The house and lot in Georgetown presently occupied by Dodge Wailes known as the Moses Leonard
property.
To son Albert C. Smith - proceeds from the sale of above property if there be any after debts are paid. "He
will have perhaps to negotiate the matter for his mother"
To wife Margaret E. Smith - tract of 220 acres called Friends Denial Enlarged this being the land devised to
me by my father Archibald Smith in 1824. Also the home and lot where 1 now live including the vacant lots
on the east and west of the property. Also my interest in the farm in Rockawalking owned in partnership with
Humphrey Humphreys, William Birckhead, and Thomas N. Roten Esq.
Executor: wife
Witness: J. C. Bell, J. T. Parsons, Randolph Humphreys
10 July 1877 Then came
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Matthias Disharoon
I January 1877
To grandson Winfield Scott Disharoon (son of Samuel) - $300 to remain in the hands of George Covington
Disharoon until grandson is of age
To granddaughters Mariah, Nancy, Clementine (daughters of my deceased son Asbury) - $100 each in the
hands of my son George until they are of age
To grandson Francis Asbury Hilman (son of my daughter Olivia Hilman) - $100 in the hands of son George
To daughter Olivia Hilman - bed and furniture
To sons W. Wesley Disharoon, Theodore F. Disharoon, George C. Disharoon, and grandson Goldsbury
Conoly son of John H. Conoly - proceeds from sale of personal property
Executor: son George
Witness: Thomas B. Moore, Rachel W. Moore, Benjamin E. Moore
10 July 1877 Then came
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Mary W. Taylor
4 June 1875
To son Doctor Jefferson Z. Taylor - farm known as the Mitchell farm including woodland near the forks of
the road leading from Quantico to Rewastico Mills the same being included in the deed from Doctor
Jefferson Z. Taylor to me for the Mitchell farm as willed to him by his father John W. Taylor
To daughter Virginia A. C. Bounds - note of hand 1 hold against her as principal and Rosella E. Hearn
security for $231.49 date of 9 October 1 869
To daughter Mary W. Crawford - note of hand against her for $135.54 dated 9 October 1869
To children Virginia Bounds, Rosella Hearn, Mary Crawford, Jefferson Taylor - balance of personal
property
Executor: son-in-law Alfred J. Crawford
Witness: Thomas B. Moore, Benjamin E. Moore, Peter Ownes
I I September 1877 Then came
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George Farlow of Benjamin
1 April 1877
To oldest son Billy Handy Farlow - in addition to that already given, two shares of the Wicomico and
Pocomoke Railroad and that note me from a note against him of the date 21 February 1874
To son Benjamin Warren Farlow - 1/8 of the proceeds or 1/8 household furniture
To son George Ritchie Farlow - 1/8 of the proceeds or 1/8 household furniture
To son Thomas Henry Farlow - my home farm and a 3 acre lot opposite my house and east of the county road
To sons Benjamin and George - the of above if Thomas dies without issue
To daughter Priscilla E. Melson wife of Burton Melson - 1/2 of the proceeds or 1/2 household furniture
To daughter Amandy Jane Stephens wife of Joseph Stephens - 1/8 of the proceeds or 1/8 household furniture
Executor: son Thomas
Witness: Billy F. Farlow, George R. Farlow, James H. Farlow
1 September 1877 Then came
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Rachel Phillips wife of Urias Phillips
17 May 1876
To daughter Rachel Ellen Phillips - bed and furniture, black mare
To daughter Ida Phillips - bed and furniture
To son Christopher Phillips - bed and furniture, black horse, two wheeled buggy, wane cart, yoke of oxen
To son George Phillips - bed and furniture, wane cart, yoke of oxen
Witness: Robert C. Mitchell, Levin B. Mitchell
18 September 1877 Then came
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John Goslee
7 May 1874
To son William J. Goslee - a note against him for $100
To daughter Sarah P. Ruark - house and lot at the creek where Old Thomas Hitch once lived containing 6
acres between the gate and the creek landing
To Greensbury Waller - the above if daughter dies without issue
To daughter Ann Maria Goslee - house and lot near the shipyard on the Wicomico River
To sons Samuel J., Jesse, John - all my right and title to farm in Somerset County purchased of George Price
To sons Jesse H. and John H. - my home farm , also my swamp land in the Great Swamp adjoining the land
of James Simms
To grandchildren Mary A. Waller, Henry Waller, and Jesse Waller - the farm of 60 acres called Dorget
where Alexander Waller resided at the time of his death
To grandsons William Waller, Vaughan Waller, and Samuel Jones Waller - $2. each
To the children of Samuel J. Goslee - house and lot of one acre at the shipyard adjoining daughter's land
Executor: sons William and Jesse
Witness: Lemuel Malone, Samuel T. Bush, William P. Bradley
25 September 1877 Then came
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Jacob Hayman
7 October 1871
To grandchildren Laura Emma Cordray, Elijah Henry Cordray children of my daughter Sally Ann Cordray -
$100 each
To Charles Reed Hayman son of my son Levin - "in consequence of the indebtedness of my son Levin to me
for money advanced and paid for him during his life, I give and bequeath to Charles Reed Hayman son of my
said son Levin the sum of one dollar"
To children Samuel H. Hayman, Hester Heam wife of Isaac N. Hearn, Daniel H. Hayman, Benjamin F.
Hayman, Joseph J. Hayman, and Maria J. Hayman - remainder of estate
Executor: son Benjamin
Witness: William E. Brewington, M. H. Tilghman, Samuel A. Graham
13 November 1877 Then came
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Henry Toadvine
20Febraury 1878
To wife Mary E. - estate for life
To children Greensbury A. Toadvine, Louis C. Toadvine, Lillian M. Toadvine, Jinnie E. Toadvine, Ella K.
Toadvine, Harry V. Toadvine, Lydia H. Toadvine, Ruba F, Toadvine - estate after wife's death
Executor: wife
Witness: George E. Wingate, Ware Winwringht, Stephen P. Toadvine
12 March 1878 Then came
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Lemuel Hastings
29 September 1874
To wife Rachel - all real estate for life or widowhood
To son Wilber Quigley - real estate after wife's widowhood
To son Gillis Emory - $200
To daughter Leah Ann - $100
Executor: son Wilber
Witness: Burton Culver, William Calloway, William S. Adkins
28 May 1878 Then came
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Whitty Leatherbury
23 January 1878
To wife Ann - personal estate for life
To Elizabeth Brown and Amanda Leatherbury - estate after wife's death
To William Birckhead - real estate in trust to be sold if need for payment of debts and the interest invested
for Ann, Elizabeth and Amanda
Executor: William Birckhaed
Witness: William J. Humphreys, William L. Birckhead, W. R. Humphrey
29 January 1878 Then came
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George W. Nutter
3 June 1878
To wife Nancy - real and personal estate and right and title and interest in tract in Tyaskin District where I
now reside
Witness: John F. Jester, George W. Evans, Zacheus Nutter
19 June 1878 Then came
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James Jackson
21 November 1877
To grandsons Thomas Edwin Jackson and George Washington Jackson - $50
To son Andrew Jackson (now living in Delaware) - $4
To wife Hennrietta - interest from the investment of $500, personal estate
To children Caroline Jackson, John Jackson, Charles Jackson, Mary Dashiell wife of George. Hannah B\rd
wife of Asbury - wife's part after her death
Executor: son John and daughter Caroline
Witness; Elijah E. Nichols, George W. Nichols, Mary C. Foskey, Samuel E. Foskey
29 June 1 878 Then came
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Benjamin Livingston
31 August 1868
To son James T. - tract of 72 acres called Facuebes and tract Dunkirk of 56 acres, livestock and 10 acres
bought of Benjamin Poilitt and all of the lumber that is prepaid to repair the house where he now lives
To son William F. Livingston - $50 if he outlives me
To daughter Mary Jane Merikin? - $50 and no more
To son Peter - cow and calf and the $10 1 loaned to him
To son John H. - the land that was sold at a trustees sale by James Hooper out of the estate of Elijah Ennis
and deeded by James Hooper trustee to John H. Livingston and from H. Livingston to Benjamin Livingston
being 76 acres of Facubes and another piece called Magdaiine Choice upon him paying $150 to my estate
To my brother John Livingston - a home where 1 now live with my son James as long as they shall agree
"if Thomas P. Price shall stay with James and his mother until he shall become of the age of twenty-one
years and behave himself wright, then I desire that James Livingston shall give him a suit or furnish with a
pretty good horse to begin with"
To James and William - remainder of estate if William shall outlive me
Executor: brother John H. and James T.
Witness: Jehu Fooks, William P. Prier, William McGrath
31 August 1878 Then came
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Mary E. Darby
5 January 1874
To son William T. Darby - bed and furniture and $200 and no more
To son Richard J. Darby - $100 and no more
To daughter Sally J. Dashiell - remainder of estate
Executor: daughter Sally and her husband Caleb R. Dashiell
Witness: George L. H. Woolford, William Elliott, Mary C. Taylor
10 September 1878 Then came
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Elizabeth Humphreys
13 March 1875
To son Randolph Humphreys - my farm called Fairfield reserving an acre for the family burying ground and
also tract purchased of Pumell Toadvine part of tract Castle Fine and also the schoolhouse lot purchased of
the School Commissioners of Worcester County containing 6 acres
To sons Lafayette Humphrey and Eugene W. Humphreys and grandson Gorden H. Toadvine - $1000
Executor: sons Lafayette and Eugene
Witness: William W. Gordy, W. S. Gordy, Thomas Humphreys
"I hereby consent and agree to the within last will and testamenf '
signed Humphrey Humphreys 13 March 1875
22 October 1878 Then came
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James Simms
29 April 1875
To wife Sarah - for her lifetime the farm where I now live containing two tracts of 102 acres called Adams
Choice purchased of William Whaland except so much of said land as has been exchanged with Henry
Banks; the county road being the line. Also household furniture
To son Rufus Simms - farm after wife's death and the use of the farm with his mother's consent
To daughter Martha Simms - 25 acres purchased of William F. Washburn and a home until her marriage
To son Elisha Simms - tract purchased of James Smith of 50 acres and $100
To daughters Emily Simms and Elen Simms - $200 in the hands of my son Rufus
That my books or library be divided among my children
Executor: son Rufus
Witness: A. C. Smith, T. W. Seabrease, Thomas B. Smith
1 January 1879 Then came
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Milby Adkins of M.
1 August 1873
To wife Mary R. - all property
Executor: James Duncan
Witness: George H. Riggin, Peter Duncan, Ara L. Davis
18 December 1878 Then came
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Martha Houston
19 July 1878
To George W. Bell - in trust to rent and collect rents and pay them to my husband Samuel P. Houston during
his life
To husband Samuel - house in Camden, Salisbury where I now live and after his death, house to be sold
To daughter Elizabeth Taylor and sons Joseph P. Houston and Samuel J. Houston - proceeds from sale of
house
To daughter Elanor Miller - cook stove and spinning wheel
To son William Houston - bed and furniture and the picture of myself and husband
To son Samuel J. Houston - one counterpane
To the children of daughter Henrietta - $15
To the children of daughter Mary Graham - $15
Executor: George W. Bell
Witness: Beachamp L. Gillis, Martha A. Gillis, Maggie H. McCallister
10 September 1878 Then came
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Zadok Lewis (Worcester)*
2 March 1 866
To wife Gatty E. Lewis - land called Harris Outlet of 60 acres on the north and south of the county road that
leads from Adkins Mill to Pumell Causeway. Also a piece of timber which is near John Lewis and the land,
which the timber is on. belongs to Harriett Lewis
Witness: Edward B. Adkins, William R. Jarman, Thomas H. Truitt
17 March 1879 Then came
•^original counts' - will made before the creation of Wicomico
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Elisha P. Parker
11 March 18_6
To wife Charlotte W. - for her lifetime, land on the north side of the county road from Salisbury to Farlows
Cross Road marked #4 on the plat of Greenland between the lands deeded to my son Clayton C. Parker
To daughter Henrietta Williams - $1000, carriage, choice of horse or mules, 500 pounds of pork and a home
in the house that I now provide. Also parcel of land marked #3 plat of Greenland resurveyed by me on 28
November 1865 near the old water hole and to the county road and to the land of Joseph Leonard
To the children of daughter Maria Ann - land north of the county road
Executor: son Clayton
Witness: William J. Leonard, E. L. Wailes, W. S. Gordy
25 Mach 1879 Then came
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John C. Harris
13 February 1879
To wife Margaret H. - her thirds, my gold watch and chain
To grandchildren Matilda and Eugene children of daughter Ellen Fowler - $200 each
To daughter Alverda, now the wife of Ebenezer Heam, and her children - SI
To daughters Annie Cathell wife of James E. Cathell, Kate Fowler wife of Dr. Edward Fowler, Lucretia
Harris and Delia A. Harris, and son Kinzey J. L. Harris - residue of estate
Executor: son -in-law James Cathell
Wimess: F. C. Todd, Thomas F. J. Rider, William A. Trader
8 April 1879 Then came
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Elizabeth Wilson
12 December 1877
To James Wilson Lowe son of George Lowe - $1000
To Mary Ann Lowe wife of George Lowe - $1200
To my cousin Dr. John B. Bell of Patosi Missouri - $500
To Miss Ellen Bounds - $500
To Noah D. Bell - $100 in the hands of his sister Margaret E. Parsons
To Joseph C. Bell - house and lot in Salisbury where I now live at the comer of Division Street and West
Chestnut and at his death, the house and lot to be the property of The Old School Baptist Church, the church
of where I am now a member
To Hennie Wilson ("my colored woman servanf ) - kitchen furniture, all the dishes in the pantries, and all the
eatables on hand and $30 each year for her support
To brother William Bell of St. Joseph, Missouri - rest and residue of estate
Executor: brother William Bell
Witness: James E. Ellegood, Samuel S. Smith, R. D. Ellegood
21 August 1879 Then came
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"To the Honorable the Orphans Court of Wicomico County Maryland
The petition ... of William Hustan, Isaac Miller, and Elleanair Miller by her next friend Isaac Miller
repectively represents that Martha T. Huston died about the month of September 1878 bring a paper
proporting to be her last will and testament which has been filed ... admitted to probate letters testamentary
granted to Geo. W. Bell. These petition respectifully that said paper is not her last will and testament ... and
ought not to be admitted ... but ought to be declaimed ... for the following reasons:
1. Because said Martha T. Huston was not capable of a valid deed or contract at the time the paper was
signed on account of mental
2. Because of under influence"
Samuel A. Graham, atty.
Filed Dec 1878
17 December 1878 George Bell appeared and defended the matter
25 February 1879 will admitted for probate
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Liber ELWl
(Remainder of Wicomico wills for 1879)
F:I
14 October 1879
Ann Maria Hayman widow of William W. Hayman renounce all claim to the bequests of my husband's last
will and testament and elect to take my dower
William W. Hayman
13 January 1876
To wife Ann Maria - her thirds in the home place and in the Twigg Lot and the Irving Lot and the Peter
Broen tract and the Penny PoUitt tract and the tract known as the Mill. This for her life time or widowhood.
Also half of my horse Julia and half of the carriage and third of personal property
To Elizabeth Vincent daughter of James Vincent - half of my horse and carriage and half of the Pollitt tract
and tract of 60 acres bought of Wesley Toadvine and after her decease to her daughter Alice
To Nehemiah Fooks - tract Twigg Lot clear of widow's dower
That my half interest in James Lot be sold and 50 acres of Fooks Lot
Executor: wife and Nehemiah Fooks
Witness: Levin M. Dashiell, Samuel Webb, Jacob Bell
4 August 1879 Then came
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Matilda A. Dashiell
21 October 1878
To daughter Mar\' C. Lowe wife of William W. - $10
To daughter Margaret A. Dashiell - $200
To son Orlando Dashiell - 100 acres known as Oak Hall
Executor: son Orlando
Witness: Joseph Bratten, Train A. Bounds. Thomas B. Taylor
30 August 1879 Then came
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Andrew Wilmore Anderson
13 June 1876
To daughter Mary Virginia Pollitt wife of Anthony - the farm, of 260 acres, where they now live formerly
belonging to Peter Bell and the farm of 91 acres purchased of Dr. Henry Dickinson. Also my piano forte,
cook stove, red wardrobe small mahogany table in the parlar chamberm red wash stand and toilet glass in the
sitting room for her lifetime and with the consent of my Executor the right to sell of any portion of timber
and the profits to go to my daughter and not her husband. Also the right and title to the fami purchased of her
husband containing 1 17 acres and on the north side of Wicomico Creek
To son in law Anthony - $1
To son Perry Harrison Anderson - my home plantation of 283 acres and my part of the crop on the Dickinson
farm during the year after my decease
Executor: son
Witness: George Waller, Benjamin B. Gordy, George A. Bounds
22 October 1879 Then came
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Samuel A. Robertson
11 December 1878
To son George - farm where I now live known as the River Field in Tyaskin District lying on the south side
of a fence running from the land of Stephen Dolby toward Shiles Creek
To son Albert - $25
To daughter Matilda - $25
To son Samuel - $25
To son Edward - $25
To wife Sarah Ann - rest of land for widowhood and then to be divided among Albert. Matilda, Samuel,
Edward
Executor: son Albert
Witness: Isaac Mezick. George W. Robertson, Albert E. Messick
June 1879 Then came
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William H. Farrington (Somerset)*
21 August 1863
To wife Zenaphine - ail estate
Witness: Levin Woolford, William W. Wise, Levin T. H. Irving
24 November 1879 Then came
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Thomas Parsons
7 December 1874
To brother Joshua Parsons - the farm of 5 'A acres where he lives known as Forest Grove. William's Security,
and Parsons Conclusion. This in the 5"' or Parsons District and contained in a deed rom said brother and wife
to me dated 14 September 1874. Also brindle cow, hogs (spotted and white) crop of com and fodder raised
by him in 1874 and also plow, long shovel and all fanning utensils
To brothers Beauchamp, John, Joshua, and Henry Parsons and sister Molly wife of James Broughton -
proceeds from the sale of my house and lot, known as the Jacob White property and in Salisbur> near the
mill pond of George W. Parsons
To Priscilla White widow of William White - my silver watch
Executor: my sincere friend William Sidney Parsons of Jehu
Witness: James E. Cathell, Alison F. Parsons, Jehu T. Parsons
23 June 1879 Then came
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George Willin
10 November 1874
To son John Willin - one shilling and no more
To son George Willin - all real estate
To son James Willin - $50
To daughter Realia Willin - a home at my place till she can raise her children or as long as she wants to stay
there
To children James, George, Cadamus, Realia - balance of estate
Executor: son George
Witness: Cooper Evans, G. W. Robertson, J. M. Roberts
14 August 1877 Then came
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"To the Honorable the Orphans Court of Wicomico County Maryland,
The petition of Cadamus Willing, John Taylor and Sarah his wife, Jesse Brumbley and Amelia Bromley his
wife .... the said Cadamus, Sarah, and Amelia are children and heirs at law of George Willin late of said
county deceased that a paper writing purporting to the last last will and testament of the said George Willing
has been filed ... These petitioners alledge that said paper writing is not the last will and testament ... and
should not be admitted for probate.
1. Because the said instrument of writing ... was not signed by him in the presence of the witnesses who
names are subscribed ...
2. Because the signatures of the witnesses ... were not made in the presence of each other ...
3. Because said paper ... was signed by said George Willin (if signed at all) while under under the undue and
improper influence of his son George Willin"
Sam. A Graham Atty.
This submitted to the court 22 January 1877 and was judged insufficient to pass any title
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Benjamin H. Parsons
26 August 1879
To sons Henry T., Levin A., and William and daughter Mary Francis - $1
To daughter Ann Jane - remainder of estate
Witness: Benjamin H. Parker, David Wooten
29 December 1879 Then came
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F.sniL' 27
Julia 27
Mar>'
O 10
i23
Ameli
Benjamin 23
Claressa 3
Clarissa 23. 24
Edward 4 1
Elijah 10. 24
James 24, 34
John 10
Laban 24
Laben 23
Lambert 23
Mar>' 4 1
Milby23, 41
Nmirod 23. 24
Noah 23
RH6
Reubm 23
Rider 23
Stanton 23. 24
William 24, 39
Joseph 34
Andrew Wilmore 44
Columbus 27
George Anna 7
Henr^ 27
Isaac 34
Man- Ellen 7
Perr> Harrison 44
Sallie 7
John 32
Madora 32
Miram 3
Mar> Jane 10
Amelia 27
Emma Virginia
Esther 27
Gammaiel 21
Granville 27
Henr>-41
John 27
Leah 21
Margaret 27
Martha 27
Mary 27
Beathards
Bell
ClarisscN 30
Frances 30
Hilry30
Isme 30
Josiah 30
Martha 30
Mar>-30
Nancv 30
.Silas 30
Bayly 21
Betsy 2 1
Elijah 21
Emiline 21
John W 4
Leoni 21
Sally 4
Samuel B 21
Sarah 4
Thomas 21
A P6
George 41. 43
J C 11.36
Jacob 44
John 42
Joseph 42
Noah 42
Peter 44
William 42
Amanda 9
E.T16
Elisha9
Elisha 8
Elizabeth 29
George 9
Idy9
James 9
Joshua 34
Laura 9
Levin 9
Martha 9
Mary 9
Nancy 9
Noah 9
Oliver 9
Priscilla34
Sarah Caroline 29
William 9. 29
Birckhaed
Birckhead
Willi;
i39
W 10
William 7. 36
Martha 33
Eleanor 13
Emory 13
Hetty 13
Sally 13
Severn 13
Bounds
Albert 15
Andrew 15
Elizabeth 15
Ellen 42
George 15
George A 17
Henry 30
Mary 15
Rachel 15
Train 1 5, 44
Virginia 37
William 15. 19
Bradley
AH 29
Benjamin 31
Elizabeth 5
Ferdinand 5
George 5
Hetty 3 1
Jacob 31
Jeremiah 16
Julia31
L.M3I
Lucien 8
Phillis Julia 31
PhillisWS
Samuel 5
Severn 5
Vardine 5
William 31, 38
B ratten
Alfred 18
Anna 9
Jesse 9
Joseph 12, 15,44
Sarah Margaret 9
William 9
Brereton
James 30
Brewington
Alexander 25
George 25
Henry 35
Hester 25
Isaac 25
John 12.23
Leah 25
Nancy 23
Vicey 24
William 25. 38
Brinkley
John 35
Bnttingham
Mary J 3
Broen
Peter 44
Brohavvn
John 34
James 45
Molly 45
Causey
31
Elizabeth 39
Leonard 31
Mary 16
Minus 14
Nathaniel 16
Sam 19
Sarah 31
Amelia 46
Jesse 46
Margaret 34
Amelia 13
Elijah 13
Margaret Hester 13
Mary Ellen 13
Samuel 38
Asbury 39
Hannah 39
Henrietta 12. 18
Cantwell
Carew
John 15
Charlotte 3
Eliza 27. 34
Elizabeth 3
Henry 3
John 3
L. W. T. 33
Michael 26
Theodore 3. 8
William Albert 3
William H 3
Annie 42
George 3
James 42, 45
William 2
George Washington 35
Harriett 35
James 21, 35
Josiah I
Levin 35
Louvenia21
Richard 21
Sallie21
Sarah 21
William 21
Conolv
Cooper
Christopher
l-ranky 23
Lovvdy 23
Clavwell
Robert 28
Collier
Eleanor 6
George 6
Levin 6
William 6
Collins
daughter 25
Edward 25
Isaac 13
John 32
Martha 25, 28
Concllv
James 14
Goldsburv 37
John 37 '
George 30
H 10
Hiraim 10
Lambert 8.9.15
Levin 3 1
Severn 3 1
Thomas 4, 25
Corbin
Margaret 32
Cordray
Elijah 38
Laura 38
Sally Ann 38
Coulbourn
Henny 24
Coulbourne
Shady 17
Cox
Sarah 16
Crawford
A, J. 17
Alfred 37
Mary 37
Mary E 19
Ralph Lowe 19
Crockett
Crosbv
Crouch
Culver
Dale
Darby
Mar\'27
Burton 39
John 1 1
Laura 12
Mar>'40
Obadiah 29
Richard 4. 12, 17,34,40
William 4. 40
William Thomas 12
Aurelia 14
Benjamin 15
Caleb 40
Charles 33
Daniel 2
Dashiell 44
Edgar 2
Emily 33
Esther 29
George 39
Hampden 13, 14
Henry 7
J. M. 17
Levin 22, 35, 44
Levin M 20
Levin Washington
Lourania Priscilla 1
Margaret 44
Mary33. 34. 39
Mary Ellen 1 1
Matilda 44
Peter 2
Sally 40
Wesley 2
William 2. 1 1
John 2
Ara41
Catheron 14
Columbus 25
Edward 33
James 1, 9
Jesse 7
Pumell 30
Man Ann 21
Richard 27
Ananias 2
Benjamin 2
CW6
Charles 1
Daniel 4
Ebenezer 4
Garrettson 2
Henry 1, 2
Hiram 22
James 13, 14
John 2
John Westly 2
Johnathan 2
Johnson 2
Lavinia2
Levi 2
Levin H 3
Margaret Elizabeth '.
Mary 2
Mao'E. 4
Minos 2
Nancy 4, 2 1
Nancy Francis 21
Phones 1
49
Rosina 22
Sarali 1
Henry 44
I
Alexander 33
Asbury 37
Azariah 27
Charlotte 33
Clementine 37
Ebenezer 3, 33
George Covington 37
James 2 1
Joseph 7
Mariah 37
Matthias 37
Nancy 37
Robert 21
Sally 7, 13,21,30
Samuel 37
Theodore F. 37
W. Wesley 37
Widon 22
Dolby
Curtis 23
Molly 23
John 17, 18
Levin 10,33
Douglass
Downs
Dryden
Maria 5
David James 16
Elijah William 16
Isaac 16
Jacob 16
Joshua Henry 16
Leonora 16
Mary Ellen 16
Wanda 16
James 4
Robert 6
Samuel 6
Henry 33
LH A33
Isaac 36
J H, A 35
James3, 8, 41
Lemuel 9
Mary Wesley 33
Duskey
John 3
Dykes
James 7, 20
Sarah 7
William 7
Ellegood
James 26, 27. 42
R. D42
Ellingsvvorth
Hugh 28
Elliott
James 17
James K. 17
Margaret 23, 24
Mariah 17
William 40
Ellis
Charles 6
Elizabeth 36
Henny 6
John Henry 6
Joseph 36
Lavinia Elizabeth 36
Levin 36
Martha 6
Pumell 6
Robert 36
Stephen 29, 36
William 36
Elsey
Ann 3
Esther 3
Francis 3
Henry 3
Nancy 3
Samuel 3
Wesley 3
English
Alfred 4, 15
Isaac 29
Thomas 11,31
Ennis
Elijah 40
Peter 3 1
Ursula C 33
Evans
Cooper 45
Eliza 16
George 39
John 7
Margaret 5
Eversham
James 19
Evvell
Charlotte 19
Farlow
Benjamin 4, 37
Benjamin Warren 37
Billy 9, 31
Billy F 37
Billy Handy 37
George 37
George Ritchie 37
James 4, 37
Man' 4
Sarah 4
Thomas Henry 37
WiMiam 14,45
Zcnophine 14
Beachamp 4 1
James 16,22
Martha 41
George 13
James 5. 8
John 1 1
Flemmmg
Anna 2 1
George 2 1
Handy 34
J.J 18
James M 35
Jehu 40
Levem 26
Mary 21, 25
Nehemiah 44
Ritchie 32
Samuel 21
Daniel 7
James 7
Mar>'39
Mary Catherine 7
Sally 7
Samuel 7. 39
Aurelia 10
Claude 10
Edward 10,42
Ellen 42
Eugene 42
Handy 9
Henry 10
Kate 42
Lucretia 10
Matilda 42
Elijah 14
Joshua 23
Mary 14
Matilda 14
Peter 23
Rosa 14
Sarah 14
William 23, 34
Willii
Adolphus 36
Alonzo 18
Eliphlet Reed
Elizabeth 18
JohnH 18
Sidney 18
Thomas 18
Godfrey
Gordy
Gray
Grey
Grove
James 4
Priscilla
Sally 18
Benjamin 21
Benjamin B 44
Elizabeth 6
Estelle 16
Garrettson 2
George 17
Gillis 12
Jane 21
Laura 12, 16
Leah 12
Leah Murray 16
Levi 2, 28
Margaret 28
Martha 21
Mary 12
Nancy 2 1
Samuel 12, 16, 21, ;
W S. 42
W.Sydney 17
WW 7
William 12, 16, 18
William W I
Ann Maria 38
Jesse 38
John 38
Samuel 38
William 38
Emma 27
George 27
James Stewart 27
Jasper 27
John 27
Leah 27
Mary 41
Samuel 7, 34, 38
Samuel A 1,32,36
Samuel A. 35
Zipporah 27
Benjamin 4, 29
Eleanor 9
Caroline 22
AG 32
Gunby
Hastings
Lizzie 30
Betsy Stewart
Michael 14
William 14
Winder 14
Peter 1 1
Winder 21
Hester Jane 35
Richard 10
Caroline 10
Marion 10
Delia 42
John 42
Kinzey 42
Lucretia 42
Margaret 42
William 2
William 29
Dorothy 19
Gillis Emoo' 39
Leah Ann 39
Lemuel 39
Rachel 39
Susan 19
Wilber Quigley 39
Benjamin 38
Caroline 20
Charles Reed 38
Daniel 38
David 20
David 20
Elizabeth 20
Handy 20, 22
Jacob 38
John 20
Joseph 20, 38
Levin 38
Louisa Jane 20
Maria 38, 44
Matildy 26
Milly 22
Samuel 38
Thomas 13
William 44
William W 20
Alverda42
Benjamin 23, 24
Brinkley 8
Daniel 9
Ebenezer 23, 24, 42
Elijah 8
Hester 38
Irena 8
Hooper
Hopkins
Horsey
Isaac 38
Jane II, 12
John 1 1
Joseph 8
M32
Nancy Jane 7
Noah'23
Peter 8
Robert 24
Rosella37
Ruth 1 1
Sally 8
Samuel 8
Thomas 23, 24
Zessy 23
Francis Asburv 37
Olivia 37
John 7
Nancy 14
Robert 19
Thomas 38
Elizabeth 20
Polly 20
Charles 34
James 35
Billy 32
Daniel 10
Elijah 4
Elisha3,4
Joshua 4
Mary 17
Mordecai 4
Anna 14
E. K29
James 40
Sally 35
John 15
Charles 8, 12
MilcahS, 12,22
Ann 15
Ester 15
Esther 1 5
Henry 15
Isaac 35
John 1 5
Joseph 41
Levin 1, 15
Martha 41
Mary 15,35
Samuel 41
Saul 15
William41
HufTington
Hustan
Huslon
Indiana ;
Insley
Irving
Azariah 4
Bcauchamp 4
Hi nam 4
Joseph 4
Louther 4
Mahala 4
Margaret 4
Mary 4
Rachel 4
William 24
Elijah 16
n
Hester 8
James 8
Jesse 13
Rutah 8
L P21
Eugene 40
Lafayette 40
Thomas 1, 7
Elizabeth 40
F B16
Humphrey 36, 40
Huston 16
R.G 14
Randolph 36, 40
Thomas 12. 16.28
William 39
William 43
Martha 43
Ohio 23
Esau 33
Susan 33
Levin 26
LevmT H 15.24,32,36,45
Annie 35
Caroline 39
Charles 39
Delilah 5
Elihu 35
George 5, 8
George Washingt
Hennrietta 39
Isaac 7
James 39
John 39
John Andrew 19
Margaret 6
Mary Jane 5
Peter 5
Samuel 5
Thomas Edwin 3<
Virginia 5
Jackson
James
Jarman
Jarrctt
Jarvis
Jenkins
Jester
Johnson
Willii
I 6, 7
Jordan
Kebberlv
Amelia 13
Anna Louisa 13
James 13
Sally Elizabeth 13
William 41
Susan 33
Henry 34
Frank 7
Littleton 7
Loda 10
Sarah Jane 7
Susan 16
John F 39
Ebenezer 18
Harriet 18
Henrietta 17
Joshua 6. 10
Josiah 28
Maria Ann 17
Noah 18
Purnell 17
Albert 32
Eglantine 14
Elizabeth 4
G Paul 14
George 13
George Paul 13
Henrietta 13
Henry 31
Isaac 15
James 32
James Mc 32
John 2, 6, 16
Kate 13
Laura 13
Margaret 6
Mary Ann 32
Perr> 13
Robert 13
Roberta 32
Sally 4
Samuel 14
Samuel B 22
Tazwell 13
Thomas 4, 32
Thomas Woodland 13
Wally A. P 6
William 4
Conrad 1
Isaac 12
Kennerly
Ker
Kerby
King
Knowles
Kreutzer
Franklin 18
John 18
Kelly 34
Kittiana 18
Maria 18
Mary Ellen 18
William 18
Julia 14
Luther 4
Samuel 16
James 17
Levin 13
Thomas 8
John 31
Mary 31
Sarah 31
Langrall
William 5
Langrell
Mary 26
Samuel 26
William 26
Lank ford
Edward Washington 33
Mary Levinia 33
Priscilla33
Laws
Charlotte 3
Elijah 3
Gertrude 3
Henry 34
James 34
John W 3
Noah 3
Priscilla3
William 34
Layt'ield
Abigal Fooks 14
Ephraim 14
Ephraim Wilson 14
George 14
Jane Layfield 14
Robert 14
Sally Deen 14
William Quinton 14
Layton
Milbem 22
Miller A 22
Leatherbury
Amanda 39
Ann 39
Whitty 39
William 31, 39
Livingston
Lloyd 14
Ellen 1
George W 17
Joseph 42
Julia Estheranne
Martha E 1
Mary Ann 1
Mary Jane 17
Moses 36
William 26. 28
William Anna 1
Elijah 2
Gatty 4 1
Harriett 4 1
John 41
Joshua 30
Zadok41
Hetty Ann 22
Mary Adaline 22
Mina22
Nancy Emeline 22
Thomas 22
1
Benjamin 40
James 40
John 18.20,40
Matilda 20
Peter 18.40
William 40
James 3 1
Mary 16
Mitchell 16
Rachel 31
Ralph 31
William 16
t
Cora Ellen 36
George 1 1, 27, 42
George Anna 1 1
James Wilson 42
Jas. W 1 1
John 1 1
Lydia 1 1
Mary 19,44
Mary Ann 42
Ralph 19
Sarah 19
Thomas 19
WW 22
Whitefield 1 1
William 44
John 27
Hester 16
Lemuel 7, 12,30,38
Levin 30
Matilda Elizabeth 26
Simon 25
Marsha
Marster
Masscv
McCalhst
McDaniel
Meek
Melson
Mcrikin
Mezick
Milbom
Miller
Ida 28
James 28
John 28
Lemuel 28
Rachel 28
Sallie28
William 28
;r
Maggie 41
Elizabeth 6
John 6
Ccles Blanch 33
Corsett Gilliss 33
Demina F 33
Eleanor 33
John William 33
Josiah 26, 33
Polly 22
William 40
Priscilla24
Hannah 23
John 23
Melson 37
Priscilla37
AlfraD. 33
G. W 18
Isaac 29, 45
Newton 1 5
Elanor 41
Elleanair 43
Isaac 43
Amelia 28
Betsy 23
David 23, 24
Edward 28
George 9
Henry 8
Hester 31
Jacob 14,25
Jehu 25
Lemuel 9
Mary 9
Monelus 31
Sally 23
.Stephen 9
Susan 23
Levin 38
Robert 38
T, W H 27, 36
Benjamin 32, 37
Delvia (Delia) 15
E B36
Elizabeth 21
Emma 36
George 17
George M 18
Margaret 10
Rachel 19,37
Rachel W. 19
Thomas 19,32,37
Thomas B 18
Vincent 21
Clara 30
Clara Estelle 30
Elijah W 3
Jacob 26
James 26
John 26
Levin 26
Louis 30
Sally 26
Samuel 26
Theodore 3
Thomas 26
William 26
Ellenor0 3l
Amanda 26
Anne 26
Bob 30
Charles 20
Edward 20
Elijah 30
Emiline 20
George 20
Jacob 23
Jane 20, 26
Kitty 30
Martha 23
Nancy 30
Pat 33
Peter 20
Rhody 23
Sam 23
Saul 30
Stephen 5
Perry 4. 19
Olliphan
Owens
Ownes
PPrice
Packard
Parker
Parkes
Parks
Parmer
Parsons
Elijah 39
Mar>' 14
George 39
Nancy 39
Philiis21
Zacheus 39
William 8
John 33
Peter 37
Charles 13
Benjamin 26, 35
Benjamin H 46
Betsy 26
Charlotte 42
Clayton 42
ElishaP. 42
Elizabeth Heam 26
Hannah 23
Henrietta 36
John 26, 35
Joseph M 21
Maria Ann 42
S Q13
Samuel W 26
William 23
J 12
Hannah 5
Jesse 5
Job Thomas 7
Johns
Lidia 5
Thomas 26
Joseph 10
A F36
A, Frank 33
Alison F 45
Amelia 23
Ann Jane 46
Ann Mariah 4
Beauchamp 45
Benjamin 23-25, 35, '
Charlotte 18
Daniel J 4
Ebenezer 23
Elijah 23
Elisha35
Elizabeth 4
Esther 27
George 27, 45
Paton
Patt\'
Perry
Phillips
Phippin
Phipps
Pinkett
George W 4
Hannah J 4
Henry 46
123
J. T36
Jehu 45
John 34, 35, 45
Jonathan 23
Joshua 45
Joshua J. 4
Lemor 4
Levin 24, 46
Martha 23, 25
Mary Francis 46
Milton 24, 27
Parsons 25
Rufus 23
Samuel 18,25
Sarah 3
Theodore 1 1
Theresa 35
Thomas 45
William 46
William Sidney 27, 45
Emmy 26
John 28
Mary 28
Hannah 4
John 32
Lambert 4
Mary E 6
George 28
Christopher 38
Emeline 36
George 38
Ida 38
Isabella 5
Jacob 17
James 2, 12
Rachel 38
Rachel Ellen 38
S.A. 6
Unas 38
Goldsborough 34
H34
John 3 1
Marandy 3 1
Charlotte I
Elijah 1
Johnl
Milly 1
Sally 1
William 13
PUSCN
Raill
Ram
Mar> 21
Amandy 26
Anthony 44
Benjamin 40
Eleanor 20
Frost 18
Isaac IS
Jane 26
Joshua 17
Lewis 20
Mariah 18
Mary A 17
Mary Virginia 44
Milkey 18
Penny 44
Stephen 18
Sue 18
William 17
Henry D 22
George 38
Levin 25. 27
William 40
Mary Jane 34
Robert 7
Henry 13
John 1 5
Bassitt 2
Henry 2
John 2
Julia 2
Lamber 2
Rachel 2
Eliza 28
Maria 28
Albert 15
Ernest 15
George 2, 6, 15
John 15
Louisa 15
Richardson
Eleanor 10
Alice 35
Granville 35
John 35
Margaret 35
Noah 35
Thomas T J 25
William 35
Riggin
George 4 1
Harriet 20
Jane 20
John 22
Major 16
William II
Robbins
Mary Jane 22
Robertson
Albert 45
Edward 45
Eleanor 15
G 45
George 45
Hester 29
John 18
Mary 29
Matilda 45
Oscar 29
Priscilla29
Rilon 29
Rufus 29
Samuel 15.45
Sarah Ann 45
Thomas 31
Washington 29
Robinson
Eli 10. 34
Elizabeth 10
Henr>' 26
Isabella 16
James 10, 16.34
John 10, 26, 34
Joseph 16
Thomas 1 1
Rollins
Martha 10
Roten
Thomas 36
Rounds
A. J^ 24
Leah Famey 2 1
Margaret 21
Sophia E 21
Ruark
Sarah 38
William 36
Russel
Elizabeth 29
Russell
Hetty 16
STruilt
Elisha4
Sanders
Angel me 34
James 34
Scarborough
Johns
Seabraze
TW 6
Seabrease
T W 15.41
57
Sheppard
John 1
Smyth
Benjamjn Jackson 29
Christopher 29
Daniel 22
Eleanor 29
Ellen 7
Henny 6
Hester 18
Isaac 18
James 18
James Madison 7
Levin 18
Margaret 18
Napoleon 29
Sylvester Stewart 29
Thomas 29
William 3, 29
Elen41
Ehsha 19.41
Emily 41
James 38, 41
Jesse 6
Martha 4 1
Rufus41
Sarah 41
William 14
Albert 30, 32
Bettie Moms 30
Francis 30
John 30
John Brown 30
Mary 30
A,C41
Albert 36
Archibald 36
Betsy 23
Clara A. 18
James 41
John 21
Levin 32
Lovey C. C 32
Margaret 36
Samuel 10
Samuel S 42
Sarah 10
T A21
Theodolia33
Thomas 8, 11, 14,21,36,41
William 18,35
Henry 1 1
William 3
George 32
Hany32
James 27, 32, 34
Matty 32
William 32
Stephens
Sturgis
Taylor
Thorington
Tilghman
Robert 4
Amandy Jane 37
James 13
Joseph 37
Richard 25, 29
Susan 29
Thomas 29
Charles 18
Julia 3
Mary 18
Thos 3
William 16
J- Hopkins 6, 33
Algernon Sidney 28
Andrew 28
Cadmus 28
Elisha9
Elizabeth 28, 41
Emiline 28
George Handy 28
Henry 9
Hester 9
Ichabod 28
Jefterson Z 37
John 21, 46
Laura 2 1
Lee 28
Letictia9
Mary9, 37, 40
Orlando 28
Sanford 2 1
Sarah 46
Thomas 5, 9, 15, 16, 19
n
WW 33
M H 38
Martha 21
William B. 20
Alexander 10
Easther 22
Elijah 22
Ella 38
Esther 22
Gorden 40
Greensbury 38
Harry 38
Henry 22, 38
James 22
Jinnie 38
John 22
Lillian 38
Louis 38
Lucreatia 10
Lydia 38
Mary 38
Turpin
Matthias 10, 12,33
Priscilla22
Pumell 12,40
Ruba38
Stephen 7, 22. 38
Wesley 22, 44
William Anna 12
Willie 21
F C28,42
George 12, 29
George W 7
H. Laird 15,25,28,32
Mary 12
Michail 12
Sarah 29
Elizabeth 28
Ida 28
Jennie M. C, 28
John 28
R W S 28
Robert 28
William A 42
Elijah 4
George 34
Isaac 1 1
John 17
Leurane 3
Levicia4
Lursia 4
Mary 4
Matthias 1 1
Narcissa 1
Peter 1 1
Rosena 4
Rufus 13
Ruftis K 20
Thomas 41
Truitt 1
Williams. 11
George 3 1
Henry 31
Leah 31
Mary 31
Samuel 3 1
Vance
Venable
Wall
Waller
A. F. 12
Amelia 23
John 5, 12.27
Ellamaude 14
Johns, 19
Thomas 14, 19
Vashta 10
Robert 8
Sarah Jane 10
Thomas 10
William 19
Walton
Ward
Rosanna 1 5
James 6
Alberta Maloney 29
David 6
Elizabeth 44
Harvey 6
James 6, 20, 44
Dodge 36
E17
EL 42
EL 6
William 29
ght
George 5
Jesse 5, 6
Nancy 1 1
Agnes 33
Alexander 38
Amelia 33
Clarence 33
E M9
Frank 33
George 12, 23, 44
Greensbury 38
Handy Irving 19
Henry 38
Jesse 19
Joseph 28
Mary 33, 38
Prissy 12
Robert 23
Vaughan 38
Virginia 33
William 33, 38
Mary Ann 22
Westley 22
E. M. 32
E.g. 32
George 3, 32
Maria 32
Sally 23
Thomas 4. 32
George 5
Robert 6
Levin 22
Caroline 25
Cyrus 23, 25
George 4. 3 1
Harney 25
Martha 23
Martha Ellen ;
Mar\ Jane 4
59
Wealtherly
N
Weatherly
Elizabeth 8
Mary 8
Samuel 8
George 45
James 45
John 45
Realia45
Cadamus 46
James A, J 3
James R. 3
Matthias 5
Priscilla Ann 4
William 4
James 28
i
Charles 33
Columbia 33
Margaret 33
Mary 33
Sallie33
Ebenezer 8
Edward 3
Elizabeth 2, 7
George H 15
Hannah 33, 34
Henry 5
Jacob 45
John 26, 33, 34
Laura 15
Mary 33
Noah 28
Priscilla 45
Samuel 5
Spicer 7
William 45
Elizabeth 42
George 15
Hennie 42
Thomas 29
William 29
Winder
Seleh Elizabeth II
Wingale
George 38
Winright
Ware 2
Winvvringht
" Ware 38
Wise
William 14
Woodcock
Amos 35
Woolford
George 6. 15,27,40
Levin 45
Wooten
David 46
Wright
Clement 12
Isaac 12
Annis 1
Edward H 2
Emory 20
Henrietta 1 7, 42
Herbert 30
Hester 30
James 36
James F 17
James F. 1
John 35
L. Ernest 35
Laura 28
Leah 1
Leah Catherine 34
Luther 28
Margaret 20
Mary 30
Milly 1
Robert 30
Sally Ann 20
Samuel 14,20
Thomas 17
Thomas H 1, 17
Index to tracts and place names
Acworth's Old Age 17
Adams Choice 41
AdkinsMilUl
Bam Neck 22
Barren Creek 1 7
Barren Neck 20
Beaver Dam Ridge 22
Bound's Neglect 15
Bush Ridge 34
Carey's Folly 26
Castle Fine 40
Clover Field 5
Collins Lot 26
Daniel Discovery 16
Dashiell'sMill20
Dashiell's Regulation 2
Delmar 7
Dispute 1 1
DonohoMillPond9
Dorget 38
Double Mills 4
Dunkirk 40
Facuebes 40
Fairfield 40
Farlows Cross Road 42
Fooks Cash 20
Fooks Cost, 22
Fooks Lot 44
Forest Grove 45
Fork-town 12,35
Fort Neck 22
Foys Discovery 28
Friends Denial Enlarged 36
Friends Discovery 16
Fruitland 35
Gilliss Venture 17
Golden Quarter 21. 35
Greenland 42
Hard Fortune 15
Harris Outlet 41
Henry Last Choice 2
Hickory Point 22
Hog Range 26
Holefast 26
Hopewell 26
Humphreys Mill 17
Hungary Neck 1 5
Indiana 23. 24
Iowa 23. 24
Irland's Eye 1 1
Jackson Disappointment 7
John's Lot 2
Justice Swamp 26
Kentucky 23
Knights Tract 25
Kobeasey 18
Kobleuses 18
Lions Den 16
Littleton's Delight 22
Long Acre 22
Magdaline Choice 40
Mill Lot 20, 22
Missouri 42
Mount Hope 6
Nanticoke Point 6
Nanticoke River 6
Nutter's District 10
Nutter's Neck 32
Oak Hall 44
Parsons Conclusion 45
Parsons District 45
Partners Choice 15
Pittsville 22
Pompey's Point 28
Powellsville 22
Princess Anne 13
Promised Land 34
Pumell Causeway 41
Quantico 32, 37
Rayne Place 35
Redhill 3
Rewastico Mills 37
Salisbury 12, 16, 17, 20. 21, 23, 33. 35. 36. 41. 42
45
Security 35
Sharptown 10. 11,34
Shiles Creek 45
Small Spot 8
Snow Hill 35
Snow Hill 21
St, Polls Church 8
Strife 34
Timber Range 26
Tony Tank 20. 35
Tony Tank Mills 20
Trappe District 34
Turnstile 6
Tw igg Lot 44
Tyaskin 6
Tyaskin District 29. 39. 45
Upper Ferry 35
Upper Ferry 25
Upper Trappe 19, 35
Wainwright's Hard Luck 32
Warrington 16
WetipquinNeck2
White Hall 15
White Haven 6
Wicomico Creek 13
Wicomico River 38
William's Security 45
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WICOMICO COUNTY, MARYLAND
WILLS
LIBER WB #1
December 1880- 1897
Abstracted by
Leslie and Neil Keddie
The Family Tree Bookshop
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WICOMICO COUNTY, MARYLAND
WILLS
LIBER WB#1
December 1880- 1897
Abstracted by
Leslie and Neil Keddie
The Family Tree Bookshop
www.familytreebookshop.com
WICOMICO COUNTY, MARYLAND
WILLS
LIBER WB#1
December 1880- 1897
The following wills have been abstracted from the Wcimico county Register of Wills documents which can
be found on microfilm MSA CR65 and MSA CR66 from the Maryland Hall of Records. Wicomico county was
established in 1867 out of the Worcester and Somerset Counties.
We have attempted to abstract as much vital information as possible in order to facilitate the researcher in
their quest. The first date given refers to the date the will was written— the second date is that of the probate of the
will. Following down, are the various legatees and relationship (when mentioned) to the testator. We have listed all
bequests following the legatee's name and have done so by pulling all the information together. In many of the
wills, the bequests are scattered about, so that our abstracts do not fully follow the exact order in which the will was
written. We have also included the tract names and the names of individuals -where mentioned -whose property
lay adjacent to the testator's land.
One of the difficulties of abstracting old documents is the handwriting of the clerk. The wills contained on
the microfilm are all clerk's copies of the original document. Thus, the clerk did copy verbatim the will as it had
been dictated onto the original. In many cases these were written and spelled the same as the testator spoke which
causes some problems of translation. However it is important for the researcher in some instances as it gives one a
sense of how the testator spoke and what type of dialect he may have had. The most obvious is the spelling of some
of the names— Heser, for "Hester" or "Sary" for "Sarah" and "Alec" for "Alice" Also
the dialect of the shore made it common for the inhabitants to use the words "Daster" or "dater" for daughter.
Where names or tract names or even items are indecipherable, we have placed (?) after the word in question.
At the end of the will are the signatures of the subscribing witnesses— being those who could swear that the
will was the acknowledged will of the testator and that he was of sound mind when the document was written. Then
came: refers to those witnesses who appeared before the magistrates to swear of their presence and the authenticit>'
of the will.
Following Then came" May be another "Then came:" in which the widow appeared before the magistrates
and either agreed to abide by the legacies and divisions of the will as written, or
refused and instead elected to have her lawful thirds, which means she could-b\ law-take one third (her dower
portion) of the testator's estate both in real estate and personal estate.
Mar\land
East of the Chesapeake
Somerset County Wills 1675-1710 D
SomersetCounty Wilis 1710-1729 D
Somerset County Wills 1730-1739 D
Somerset County Wills 1 740- 1 747 a
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SomersetCounty Wills 1863-1870 D
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SomersetCounty Land Records 1753-1759 D
Somerset County Land Records 1 760- 1 760 n
Somerset County Land Records 1765-1769 D
Somerset County Rent Rolls Vol 1 D
(Annamessex. Monie. Wicomico)
Somerset County Rent Rolls Vol. 2 D
(Manokin, Pocomoke, Dividing Creek)
Somerset County Rent Rolls Vol. 3 D
(Nanticoke. Qiiantico, Rewastico
Assawoman. Sinepivcanl. St. Martin 's River)
Somerset County Rent Rolls Vol. 4 D
(Various Locations)
Somerset County Rent Rolls Vol. 5 D
(Various Locations 1688-1705)
Somerset County Rent Rolls Vol. 6 O
(Various Locations 1705-1740)
Somerset County Additional Rent Rolls □
(] 766- 177 5)
Talbot County Court Proceedings 1 662- 1671 D
Talbot County Court Proceedings 1 67 1 - 1 674 n
Talbot County Wills 1 777- 1 784 D
Talbot County Wills 1 785- 1 789 D
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TalbotCounty Wills 1823-1830 D
Talbot County Wills 1 830- 1 84 1 n
Talbot Count>' Rent Rolls Vol. 1 D
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F:15
Jacob Bell
28 October 1867
To wife Mariah - estate for life or widowhood
To nephew's son Andrew Covington Pollitt - estate after wife's widowhood
To Perry R. Pollitt, William W. Hayman and John W. Riggin - the above if Andrew Covington Pollitt dies
without lawful heir
Executor: Perry R. Pollitt and John W. Riggin and that they shall take care of Andrew Covington PoUin
until he is of age
Witness: Robert Staton, Daniel Staton, Josiah McGrath
10 January 1880 Then came
F:16
William T. Smith
12 September 1879
To wife Margaret A. Smith - all estate
Executor: son William G. Smith
Witness: Samuel A. Graham, William Waller, B. F. Smith
9 June 1880 Then came
F;17
Theodore Parsons
2 January 1873
To wife Margaret - all estate
Executor: wife
Witness: William Birckhead, I. Marcellus Dashiell, Samuel A. Graham
10 June 1880 Then came
F:18
William L. Truitt
24 October 1863
To daughter Sarah Williams Wells wife of Daniel Wells - land that is south and east of the road that leads
from the Line Meeting House to Melson's Meeting House
To daughter Gatty Elizabeth Truitt - the home plantation including the land on the north and west of the
above road
To wife Elizabeth - third of property for life
Executor: Billy F. Farlow
Witness: Spicer M. White, Mary E. Pumell, William Foskey
13 July 1880 Then came Spicer White and Mar\ Pumell (now Savage). William Foskey since deceased
F:19
James L. Smith
31 August 1880
To son Albert Smith - one lot or parcel of ground being a part of the tract where I now reside and beginning
on the public road and at the comer where my line joins Albert Townsend and running south to the
intersection of Martha Anderson's
To son Perry - the lot or parcel of ground being a part of the tract where 1 now reside and beginning on the
public road at the south boundary and running west
To son Thomas - the lot or parcel of ground being a part of the tract where 1 now reside and beginning on the
public road at the northeast comer where my land joins that of Thomas H. White
To son William - $30
To son Asbury - $20
To daughter Ann Eliza wife of Robert Cooley (Cookey?) - $1
To daughter Meary Banks wife of Thomas Banks - $5
To daughter Leorana Townsend wife of Albert - $1
To daughter Sarah Ellen - $5
To wife Sarah Ann Smith - personal property and that she and my daughter Sarah shall have a home on the
property given to my sons
Executor: son Albert
Witness: H. Laird Todd, Rufus Simms, I. M. Dashiell
26 October 1880 Then came
F:21
Mary A. Palmore
7 May 1874
To my child Mary Alice Taylor - "what household stuff I have independent of my husband Peter I. Palmore
consisting of 1 bed and fumiture and 1 bolster, 2 large pillows, I pair of sheets, 1 quilt with green border, 6
cain chairs, 1 large rocking chair, the mahogany table in the parlor ... 6 pictures in the parlor, my family
Bible, my tin workbox and hymn book"
To granddaughter Mary A. Mezick - the little china cups and saucers and one of the glass cups that sits on
the mantle
To grandchild Elizabeth Taylor - the other glass cups and china cups
Witness: John W. Moore, Mary C. Evans, Isabella Taylor
I November 1880 Then came George W. Taylor who had this will in his hands
F:22
Henry F. Price
7 February 1878
To aunt Margaret Banks - remainder of estate after the following
To uncle Henr>' W. Anderson - $300
Executor: Margaret E. Banks
Witness: F. M. Slemons, Henry I. W. Dinson, Jesse H. Goslee
8 January 1881 Then came
F:23
William Poliitt
26 November 1877
To wife Mary - land on the west side of a private road leading from Lazarous Johnson's to the mills formerly
owned by Gestavus Schumaker and joining the land belonging to Shady Colbourn at the time of her death.
Also house and lot in the part of Salisbury called Camden adjoining the lot of Scott Brewington and
Elizabeth Humphreys
To son Joshua D. Poliitt -$l
To the heirs of son Joshua - the farm where 1 now live known by the name of Hongarv Quarter being part of
the same that I have given to my wife
Executor: wife
Witness: E. L. Wailes, John D. Truitt, Robert Disharoon
22 March 1881 Then came
F:24
Benjamin Dennis
17 June 1880
To wife Mary - my cow which is now giving milk
To son Samuel - $1
To daughter Ellen Gale wife of Benjamin Gale - $10
To grandson Julius Church son of my daughter Sally Church - one feather bed and furniture
To daughter Hester Rider wife of Henry Rider - my horse Durbin
To daughters Hester and Sally, wife of James Church - the house and lot where I now live and the balance of
personal property except the present crop which I give to wife and son-in-law Henry Rider
Executor: sons-in-law Henry Rider and James Church
Witness: Thomas B. Moore, Edwin H. Hayman, A. L. Jones
4 May 1881 Then came
F:25
Isaac B. Jackson
12 February 1878
To Elihu Jackson son of Hugh Jackson - all my silver plate
To brother Hugh Jackson - half of the proceeds from the sale of remainder of real and personal property
To Clayton Penuel (son of my sister Leah Hum) - fourth of the proceeds from the sale of remainder of real
and personal property
To Sarah Catherine Phillips wife of Jacob C. Phillips - fourth of the proceeds from the sale of remainder of
real and personal property
Executor: brother Hugh
Witness: William Parsons, S. P. Parsons, John H. White
10 May 1881 Then came
F:26
Anthony Brown (of Parson's District)
25 April 1881
To wife Louisa - all property for her lifetime or widowhood for the care of my children
To children John W. Brown and Lucy Brown - estate after wife's widowhood
To brother Charles Brown and my sisters Sarah White and Emma Howell - estate if both of the children die
without issue
Executor: wife and brother-in-law Girshom Howell
Witness: John D. Truitt, William M. Collins, James Windsor
20 May 1881 Then came
F:27
Samson Burbage
10 December 1879
To wife Margaret - house where I now reside during her lifetime and then the house to the children Cornelia,
George and Eva
To daughter Cornelia Burbage - bed and furniture
To son George W. Burbage - bed and furniture
To daughter Eva B. Burbage - bed and furniture
To son Hiram - the land in the 6* Election District which begins at the bounder of Teague's Folly with the
line that divides my land from that of Albert Bailey until it strikes the county road leading from Powellville
to Snow Hill. This containing about 5 acres
To sons Hiram and George - my still, kettle, worm, and brandy jug
To grandson Arthur White - $5
To grandson E Clyde Burbage - $5
That remainder of property including the store house now occupied by Davis & Truitt be sold and divided
between my children and grandson: Hiram Burbage, Martha Freeney, Laura G. Powell, Cornelia Burbage,
George Burbage, Eva Burbage, and Hubert Parsons; but my son Hiram is to retain the share of Laura G.
Powell in his hands as long as her husband Elisha Powell lives and if she dies before her husband; this to be
paid to a guardian appointed for her children
Executor: son Hiram
Witness: Henry D. Powell, Ebenezer Dennis, William Lewis
1 June 1881 Then came
F:29
Matilda Mitchell
To children Rufus Mitchell, James H. Mitchell, Asbury Mitchell, Mary H. Downs - all monies and bed and
furniture to each and residue of property
To Isaac Henry Evans - the bed "on which he generally lies" and the red chest in my bedroom
To James H. Mitchell - the five flag-bottomed chairs, a red stand and "the black steer for he saved the cow's
life"
To Rufus - loom, tin can with handle, the chest upstairs
To Asbury - cupboard and the carpet in my bedroom
To Mary - one set of stem glasses, set of cane chairs, carpet in the parlor
Executor: son James
Witness: Charles R. Hearn, Thomas Burton, Jonathan J. Fooks
19 July 1881 Then came
F:30
Jonathan Riggin of Sharptown
10 August 1878
To wife Matilda - house and lot in Sharptown which is on Main Street commencing at John R. Twilley's lot
and up Main Street to a cedar post about two-thirds the way from J. R. Twilley's to the lot of Uriah
Gravenor. This for her widowhood
To son William A. Riggin - land in Dorchester County and the lot in Sharptown between that willed to my
wife and the lot of Gravenor and also $100
To daughter Hetty Twilley - house at the death of my wife
Executor: John R. Twilley
Witness: John Robinson of Eli, Noah Collins, James Robinson
27 September 1881 Then came
F:32
Elizabeth Malone
19 August 1880
To daughter Ann Maria Hayman - $300 and the bed and furniture now at her house
To son Alexander Porter Malone - the note held against him for $100 and $100 in cash
To Ida Belle daughter of Alexander P. and Elizabeth Malone (his former wife) - $100, sewing machine, bed
and furniture and rocking chair. These articles are now at Alexander's house
Executor: Alexander P. Malone
Witness: Thomas Humphreys, Ware Wainwright, Eugene W. Humphreys
4 October 1881 Then came
F:33
Huston Humphreys of Salisbury
7 October 1872
"1 desire my bones may rest with my kindred in the churchyard of the Presbyterian Church at Salisbury ...
that a plain stone mark my grave inscribed only with a plain statement of my name, date of birth (which is
August 2 1848) and the day of my death"
To the trustees of Princeton College of New Jersey (where I was educated) - $1000 to found a scholarship to
be called The Humphreys Scholarship and to be given to any student from Maryland best entitled to it
To cousin John H. Handy - $1000
To Elizabeth Bennett - $500
To Annie Coulborn wife of John Coulbom - $500
To nephew Walton Cathell Humphreys - my watch
To my sister Mary F. Humphreys - the ring which I now wear
To mother Isabella Humphreys - $1000 in her hands to ameliorate the condition of any deserving poor of the
Town of Salisbury
To the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church - $500
To Thomas Humphreys and E. L. Wailes - residue of property in trust for my sister Bell H. Jones. The
interest to be paid to on a quarterly basis
Executor: Thomas Humphreys
Witness: none named
6 October 1 88 1 Then came Stephen Toadvine and Ernest Toadvine who make oath to the handwriting of
Huston Humphreys
F:34
Elizabeth Humphreys, "married woman"
8 June 1881
To nephew George T. Dove - all property for his lifetime
To brothers and sisters George W. Smith, Robert Thomas Smith, Mary Jane Wrightson, Biddy Bennett - the
above after nephew's death
Executor: brother Robert
Witness: George W. Bell, Lillie Huston, Georgia Huston
23 October 1881 Then came
F:35
Leah Peters
23 July 1881
To grandson William Grant Peters - house where 1 now live which is near the Colored M. E. Church one
mile from Upper Trappe Wicomico County Maryland and residue of estate
To daughter Leah Whitney mother of William Grant Peters - a home in the above house for her lifetime
Witness: Levin B. Price, Lemuel Price, Nathaniel King
17 December 1881 Then came
F:36
Benjamin W. Truitt
16 October 1881
To wife Martha W. Truitt - estate for lifetime and life insurance policy No. 6480 date 20 August 1866 from
Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company
To children Eleanor F. Taylor, John W. Truitt, Benjamin P. Truitt, Martha E. Truitt, Charles Truitt, Edna F.
Truitt, and Queen L. Truitt - estate after wife's death
Executor: wife
Witness: George E. Wingate, Samuel T. Acworth, John W. Moore
24 January 1882 Then came
F:37
Humphrey Humphreys
15 may 1880
To grandson Gordan Humphreys - house and lot in Salisbury where my son Eugene lives and which adjoins
my residence. Also two houses and lots on East Camden Street bought of Noah Rider and Harry Game in
Salisbury. Also all my interest in the Hooper Farm bought of Thomas Humphreys, trustee to sell the real
estate of John T. Hooper. Also all my interest in the Toadvine Wharf in Salisbury bought of E. L. Toadvine,
trustee. Also 10 acres of land bought of Sarah Hitch and Betsy Nichols.
To son Lafayette P. Humphreys - use of the above given to his son Gordan and $2500 paid in equal amounts
over 5 years
To grandchildren Lucy Randolph Parsons, Theodore F. Humphreys, Eugene D. Humphreys; all children of
my son Eugene - the office now occupied by my son Eugene and the privilege of putting it on the dwelling
house lot at the southwest corner, east of the sycamore tree fronting on Broad Street. Also horse and carriage
now in the possession of my son Eugene. Also dwelling house and lot
To son Eugene - use of the property given to his children for his lifetime
To Lucy and Randolph children of son Eugene - the Tilghman Farm in Nutters District and the surrounding
tracts being a tract bought of D. C. Humphreys, tract bought of Elijah Coulboum, and two tracts bought of
Henry Fooks
To Theodore and Eugene children of son Eugene - two house and lots on the comer of Division and Isabella
Streets bought of 1. Madison Shockley and wife and lot of ground lying along and east of the Eastern Shore
Railroad bought at the sale of the real estate of D. C. Humphreys
To son Randolph Humphreys and grandson Gordon H. Toadvine - that property known as the Bailey Mills
consisting of a saw, grist, carding, and planing mills. Also tracts bought around said property being one tract
bought of Benjamin Parsons, one tract bought of John B. Slemons, one tract of Elizabeth Robertson, one
tract of D. Cathell Humphreys, one tract of Isabella Humphreys, and one tract of William S. Parsons and the
assignee in bankruptcy of Cathell. Also all my interest in the property on the south side of Main Street in
Salisbury consisting of storehouse, wharf and granary occupied by Humphreys and Tilghman. Also dwelling
and lot occupied by Handy Fooks. Also the iron safe at my home
To brother George W. Humphreys - $800
To the Wicomico Presbyterian Church - $800
To sister Mary Anne Humphreys - $140 per year for her lifetime. This made in pursuance of an agreement
with the heirs of my brother D. C. Humphreys to contribute to her support
1 "will and direct that the partnership now existing between myself and William B. Tilghman under the name
of Humphreys & Tilghman shall not be dissolved by my death, but my interest remain and continue for five
years"
To sons Lafayette, Eugene, and Randolph and grandson Gordon - the cannon which lies at my front gate
To nephew Thomas Humphreys - $250 and request that he act as council to to my estate
Executor: son Randolph
Witness: E. L. Wailes, M. H. Fooks, S. E. Gordy
13 March 1882 Then came
F:43
Luther M. Williams
4 April 1882
To daughter Martha Jane Pollitt - 100 acres being the north part of the farm now occupied by Martha and her
husband Lewis A. Pollitt and situated in Sussex County Delaware. Also part of a water mill joining the land
To Lewis A. Pollitt - remainder of the above farm provided he pay to my son James and my daughter
Elizabeth C. Connelly the sum of $370 to each with interest
To daughter Lucy E. Ellingsworth - 80 acres joining the land of Hugh Ellingsworth the same being the land
on the west side of a division fence beginning at the county road and running north until the line strikes the
line of A. Sidney Taylor. This provided that a right-of-way will always be around the bridge and over the
stream that is on the road leading to the Rockawalking M. E. Church
To daughter Eliza C. Morris - part of tract known as the Stevens Farm containing the dwelling and lying on
the south side of the road leading from Salisbury to Quantico
To son Alonzo L. Williams - part of the farm on which he now lives except the part given to daughter Lucy
To son Jay D. Williams - house and lot where I now live in Salisbury on Delaware Street
To wife Palmyra B. Williams - the house and lot on Delaware Street for her lifetime provided that my son
Jay D. be pennitted to enjoy a home
"It is also my will and testament that my private securities and the proceeds of my personal estate ... shall be
appropriated ... towards the payment of my marriage contract of tlve hundred dollars"
Executor: son Alonzo
Witness: W. H. Mitchell., Lambert W. Adkins, Joseph Mitchell
23 June 1882 Then came
F:45
Mary Allen
10 May 1879
To grandchildren Raymond Allen, Lindley Allen, Verona Allen, Mary Whittington Allen - my house and lot
where Joseph Allen now resides situated at Upper Trappe Wicomico County and bounded on the north and
east by the mill pond, south by a small ditch at the south end of the garden which is the line dividing my two
lots and west by the county road
To grandchildren Grace Whittington Allen, Francis Percy Allen - my house and lot where William F. Allen
now lives at Upper Trappe and bounded on the north by the ditch as above and on the south by the M. E.
parsonage lot
To son Albert James Allen - $75
To daughter Mary Jane Williams - $50
To daughter Margaret Priscilla Toadvine - $50
To granddaughter Mary E. Harcum - $50
To grandson Charles T. Dashiell - $25
To sons Joseph Allen and William F. Allen - remainder of estate
Executor: sons
Witness: Levin B. Price, Levi Malone, Simion F. Malone
25 July 1882 Then came
F:46
William P. Prior
To daughter Mary E. E. Prior - bed and furniture
That residue of personal property be divided among my seven children with the following conditions:
That daughter Hester F. C. Prior (or Brown) pay to daughter Mary $50 out of her part
That daughter Sarah C. Prior pay to my son George L. Prior $50 out of her part
That Daniel Staton and William Livingston shall value and appraise my property
Executor: James Dykes
Witness: Daniel Staton, William Livingston, Nehemiah Fooks
29 July 1882 Then came
F:48
Littleton Q. Dennis
10 November 1871
To sons Washington and Marcellus - my farm
To grandson Willie - $500 when he is of age
To wife - personal property for her lifetime
To daughters Amanda and Cordilia - personal property after wife's death
Witness: Edward White, I. D. White, Mephibosheth C. Webb
1 August 1882 Then came
F:49
James H. Elliott
18 July 1882
To wife Missoui E. Elliott - my farm known as the Price Farm for her lifetime. Also $400 in cash and for her
to collect notes of hand which she holds against me
To son Edward Elliott - real estate in the village of White Haven which I bought of Robert F. Bratten trustee
for Wair Winwright
To sons E. I. Elliott, D. 1. Elliott and daughter Julia Elliott - the swamp land known as the Wilson land and
half the farm on Witipquin Creek known as the White Farm
To my children that my wife M. E. Elliott now has or may have by me - half the farm on Witipquin Creek
and all the farm known as the John Dashiell Farm
Executor: sons Edward and Daniel
Witness: Minus Downing, Benjamin Waller, William H. Taylor
3 August 1882 Then came
F:50
Jonathan W. Benson of Sharptown
16 May 1882
To wife Sabra Benson - estate for life
To Thomas Twilley - after wife's death, land northeast of the tract of land called Robinson's Delight
To William Nichols (son of Jonathan and Anne Nichols) and William R. Robinson (son of Elijah and Mary
Robinson) - residue of real estate; "but should the above William A. Robinson refuse to stay with my wife
and wait on her to her satisfaction then his legecy shall go to the above named William Nichols"
To Jonathan Benson Bennett son of Ephraim and Sarah Bennett - one suit of clothes at twenty-one not to
cost over $100 "provided he does not arrive to that age until after the death of my wife". If wife is still alive,
then he is not to have the suit until after her death
Executor: Thomas Twilley
Witness: Samuel Cooper, John R. Twilley, James Robinson
8 September 1882 Then came
F:52
Mariah Elliott
13 November 1880
To son James Henry P. Elliott - all real estate for his lifetime
To grandchildren Isaac Edward Elliott, Lenord Washington Elliott, James Henry Elliott, William John
Benjamin Elliott, Earnest Polk Elliott, and Anne Mariah Elen Elliott - the above land after son's death
To sister Emma Lewis in the State of Missouri - the above land if all my grandchildren die without issue
To the children of my sister and the children of my brother Robert Dorman - the above land after sister's
death
Executor: friend James Gilliss and son James
Witness: George Bounds, William H. H. Dashiell, Benjamin E. Moore
17 October 1882 Then came
F:53
Cannon Knowles of Sussex County Delaware
26 April 1877
To Irvin and Eliza Jane; children of my son Sylvester - a tract of 14 acres called Baker's Folly where my son
Sylvester now lives
To daughter Ann Elizbeth - $100
To daughter Suny Jane - bed and furniture and a home as long as she is single
To sons Josephus and William - the farm on which I now live containing 1 1 1 acres
To son Giddeon - bed and furniture
To Sylvester and July Ann - proceeds from sale of my mill
To wife Nancy - her third of the above items
To son James - $1
To daughter Priscellar - land where she now lives
To son Thomas - "the house I let him have some time ago"
Executor: sons Elijah and Josephus
Witness: Levin Wright, Flavins Bradley, Joseph H. Mann
23 May 1 882 Then came
F:55
Lewis Pollitt
7 December 1880
To daughter Catherine Malone wife of Alexander - house and lot in Fruitland where I now live on condition
that she pay $100 into my estate
To wife Mary - use of half of the above house and kitchen as long as she lives
To daughter Mary Toadvine - tracts called Sandy Hill and Jonathan's Luck and Facubus adjoining the lands
of James Vincent and John Pollitt on condition that daughter Man,' pay $150 into my estate
To son Anthony Pollett - $5
To Marion, Eleanor wife of John Gosley, Willie, and Annie (children of son Anthony) - S50 each
To son Lewis - balance of proceeds from the sale of the home farm called George's Purchase which begins
on the south side of the land belonging to Wesley Cheatham
Executor: son Lewis
Witness: William W. Gordy, B. H. Parker, Thomas F. I. Rider
14 November 1882 Then came
F:57
Daniel F. Melson
3 August 1882
Toson John E.- $100
To son Pumell B. Melson - the note that I hold against him for $95
To daughter Matilda E. Humphreys wife of John E. Humphreys - $100
To wife Sarah - $1200 and sewing machine and other furniture
To sons Thomas A., Samuel F., Levin M., James S. and Daniel W. - rest and residue of estate
Thomas to pay, out of his share, $50 to Daniel and $200 to Samuel as "Thomas having received more in
assisting him to procure an education than the rest and the said Samuel being less able to earn a livelihood
than the rest and he and the said Daniel never having attended school except in the neighborhood of their
home"
Executor: son Thomas
Witness: V. S. Gordy, W. A. Humphreys, Samuel A. Graham
5 December 1882 Then came
F:58
Richard P. Darby
21 November 1882
To nephew John E. Darby - 1/4 of estate
To Margaret F. Bradley wife of Levin Bradley - $100
To Richard A. Bradley son of Levin - $100
To my housekeeper Sarah Bennett - $50
To William T. Darby, Richard Darby, Sally Dashiell wife of Rufus, and Sophonia K. Taylor wife of Gilliss -
remainder of estate
Executor: Charles F. Holland
Witness: Joseph Bratten, Thomas B. Taylor, Isaac Kennerly
12 December 1882 Then came
F:59
Josephine A. Rider
11 October 1882
To Anne White (colored) - $50
To Vestry of Salisbury Parish - $100 to be use for the construction of an annex to St. Peters Church
To daughter Mary - residue of estate except such articles of my husband's as my husband Thomas Rider may
desire
Executor: husband Thomas and that he and E. Stanley Toadvine be guardians for my daughter Mary
Wimess: William Waller, A. G. Toadvine, S. P. Dennis, Mary A. Young
26 January 1883 Then came
F:60
Thomas Hooper Roten
4 September 1876
To wife Mary Ellen - all property
Executor: wife
Witness: Samuel A. Graham, Henry Brewington, Samuel A. Graham Jr.
1 February 1883 Then came
10
F:61
Tabitha Hearn
6 September 1878
To nephew Elijah Hearn son of brother Joseph - all the real estate devised by my father Peter G. Hearn
adjoining the lands owned by Elisha P. Parker, James Oliphant and others and being about 130 acres
To the children of my brothers; Elijah, Isaac, Joseph and Peter Hearn - remainder of personal property
To Elizabeth Parker and Joshua Dredden children of Tabitha Dredden (deceased)who was the daughter of
my brother Isaac - their mother's share
Executor: nephew Samuel G. Hearn
Witness: George W. M. Cooper, Enoch G. White, Elihu Jackson
27 February 1883 Then came
F:62
Henry Crawford
11 July 1868
To wife Margaret - house and lot in Quantico, where I now reside, purchased of Marcellus Bounds for her
life time. Also tract near Quantico purchased of James E. Bounds and containing 27 acres
To niece Mary E. Crawford daughter of Andrew J, - the above house and lot at my wife's death
To nieces Mary E. daughter of A. J. Crawford and Hetty Crawford daughter of H. Crawford - the above tract
at wife's death
Executor: wife
Witness: S. J. L. Keir, Levin J. Gale, John D. Bounds
17 March 1882 Then came
F:64
John B. Taylor
29 September 1879
To daughters Sophronia Jane Taylor, Lorretta Anne Taylor, Mary Alice Taylor - dwelling and lot being part
of tract called Gladstone Adventure beginning at the comer of the storehouse lot and then south to the comer
of the lot now occupied by the widow of Levin Wright and then to the lot of the heirs of Ephraim Collins to
the line of a tract called Bachelor's Follv and then north to the county road.
To son Josephus A. Taylor - the above after the death or marriage of my daughters. Also tract called
Gladstones Adventure and the tract called Hardship being together 190 acres. Also the small lot being a part
of Bachelor's Follv which is described in a deed from Elijah Badley and wife to Daniel Badley dated 12
Februar>' 1835. Also all the land in the village of Sharptown which 1 bought of William Bennett except that
which I have already sold. Also my wharf property on the south side of the Nanticoke River composed of the
tract called Bradley's Beginning as appears by patent. Also my land in Dorchester County on the south side
of Indian Creek. Also my saw mill, house and lot being part of Tower Hill which adjoins the land of Isaac
Hubbard and runs across the pond and binding on Robinson's Hill. Tower Hill and Taylor Addition. Also to
my son all my interest in the partnership of John B. Taylor & Son. Also half interest in the schooner Jo/;/; B.
Taylor
To son John E. Taylor - all my Indian Town lands in Dorchester County which I purchased of William
Howith, Mary Ann Parks and John H. Seward and the land on the north side of Indian Creek. Also 15 acres
at Sandy Point and my schooner called Mary Alice and my share of the partnership in the firm of J. B. & J.
E. Taylor in Dorchester County
To daughter Sophronia - the fam: in Barren Creek District known as the Langsdale Farm
To daughter Lorretta - land in Sharptown purchased of Jesse Badley and the tracts purchased of Elias
Taylor's heirs now occupied by Frederick Crockett as tenant
To daughter Mary Alice - farm called the Homestead now occupied by Goldsborough Phippin as tenant and
the 40 acres adjoining which I purchased of I. H. English
(Cont.)
To daughters Sophronia Jane Taylor, Lorretta Anne Taylor, Mary Alice Taylor - that part of the Gordan
Farm which was conveyed to me by deed from Levin T. H. Irving dated 7 October 1 869
To daughters Rebecca Taylor and Fannie Taylor - $10 each
Executor: son Josephus
Witness: Levin Dorman, Lafayette P. Humphreys. John W. Crisfield
24 April 1883 Then came
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Rosa Wainwright
30 April 1883
To youngest son William - half of dwelling plantation in Tyaskin District purchased by me of William Harris
and wife and containing 20 acres
To second son George - residue of the above plantation
To oldest son John, son George and son William - personal property
Executor: Joseph Travers
Witness: Jessie T. Denson, James W. T. Robertson, John R. Robertson
4 May 1883 Then came
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Ann Maria Turner
23 April 1883
To sons George Turner and Henry W. Turner - $5
To daughter Hester Carroll - 1/6 of remainder of estate
To son Charles Edwin Turner - 1/6 of remainder of estate
To daughter Sally Jane Turner - 1/3 of remainder of estate
To son Thomas Turner - 1/3 of remainder of estate
Executor: Naaman P. Turner Jr.
Witness: Levin Graham, Naaman P. Turner Sr., James Melson
5 May 1883 Then came
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Eleanor Shockley
25 May 1883
To Annie Mary Gillis daughter of the late Margaret Gillis - all estate
Executor: Thomas B. Taylor
Witness: George R. Lowe, Joseph A. Lowe, J. B. Armstrong
12 June 1883
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Ephraim Harris Rencher
24 April 1883
To son William Alpheus Francis Rencher - residue of sale of personal property which is to remain in the
hands of his guardian until son is twenty-one. Also my home plantation for which is guardian shall attend to
the upkeep and collect the rents
To Ruphus Franklin Dashiell Rencher - $50 it being the same money left him by his mother and 1 have
tendered to him several times and he refused
To brother Alpheus Rencher - son's part if son dies without issue
To Sarah C. White - $25
To Mary W. E. Ingersol and John R. O. Ingersol the children of John R. Ingersol - $100
It is my desire that my brother Alpheus shall take care of my brother Reuphues
(Cont.)
12
That "I give my son William A. F. Rencher unto Henry Pollit - his uncle - to take care of and watch over
him" until he is of age
That " I caution my Executor not to rent, lease, let or in any manner let Thomas Pollitt have use of any of the
real or personal property I Have devised"
Executor: brother Alpheus Rencher
Witness: William Wailes, Joseph Heam, George Catlin
12 June 1883 Then came
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William F. Wilson
16 August 1881
To wife Elizabeth B. Wilson - a home where I now live for her single life. Also horse and carriage, 50
bushels of corn, 500 pounds of pork and all household and kitchen furniture and $90 annually to be paid by
my sons
To son William T. Wilson - furniture at wife's death
To son Isaac Watson Wilson - farm where he now lives known as the Huffington Farm and containing 100
acres. Also 1/3 of my interest in the Barren Creek Mills
To son Addison E. Wilson - the farm called Western Fields whereon Theadore T. Bailey now lives and
containing about 170 acres and 1/3 of my interest in the Barren Creek Mills
To son William T. Wilson - farm where I now live and land purchased of Gillis Bennett's heirs which is on
the south side of the county road leading from the Barren Creek Mills to Salisbury and 1/3 of my interest in
the Barren Creek Mills
To daughter Clara C. Bounds wife of Albert M. Bounds - $1000
Executor: Isaac Watson Wilson and Addison E. Wilson
Witness: John T. Wilson, Lambert H. Cooper, Thomas B. Taylor
11 August 1883 Then came
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James P. Truitt
14 December 1874
To wife - her thirds
To eldest son Lemuel E. Truitt - part of tract called Sheppard's Third Addition To Golden Valley beginning
at a comer in the swamp between said James Truitt and Peter P. Truitt's and to run east to intersect with a
piece of land I bought of Benjamin Sheppard and Sally his wife. Also a piece of land of my home tract on
the south side of the road leading up to the house
To second son Rufus Washington Truitt - farm where I now live called Turkey Ridge and Gargatha and
Solomon's Fortune and Black Soil and containing 180 acres. Also a piece of land of three acres bought of
Benjamin Sheppard and Sally his wife on the west side of the county road leading from Mitchell's Bridge to
Cobbs Hill. Also my stock of bees
To youngest son Albert James Truitt - a tract joining that of Lemuel E. Truitt on the west side of the said
Lemuel's farm and joining the land of Jesse Bratten and running with the county road up to Rufus's land and
called Sheppard's Addition to Golden Valley
To daughter Mary Cathanne - $20
To daughter Levinia Hester wife of Isaac Brittingham - $40
To daughter Sally Ann wife of William Davis - bed and furniture and $20
To daughter Julian Jane - bed and furniture and $20
Executor: sons Rufus and Albert
Witness: Lemuel S. Truitt, Jesse B. Davis, Garrettson Adkins
4 September 1883 Then came
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Isreal Pullett
8 January 1881
To son Perry W. ("who has supported me during my infirmities") - all property with the agreement that he
care for his sister Mary Jane during her single life
Executor: son
Witness: Eben Stanford, R. H. Toadvine Jr., James Stanford
8 September 1883 Then came
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Mary A. E. Parker
23 July 1883
To daughter Elizabeth Davis - 25 cents
To son Joshua J. Parker - 25 cents
To daughter Sarah White - 25 cents
To son George B. Parker - 25 cents
To son John Parker - 25 cents
To son Edward Parker - bed and furniture
To son Thomas J. Parker - bed and furniture
To daughter Mary M. Parker - bed and furniture
To son Eben Parker - residue of property
Executor: son Eben
Witness: Ernest N. C. Parsons, Billy H. Farlow
6 October 1883 Then came
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Mary D. Cannon wife of William
23 August 1883
To husband William - in trust for my four children, the house and lot bought of Lemuel Malone. This for the
life time of my husband
To children Annie, Lemuel, Lewis, and Addie Cannon - the above after husband's death
Witness: Clarence M. Brewington, Lemuel Malone
20 October 1883 Then came
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Levin W. Wright
4 February 1880
To wife Elizabeth E. - third of real estate during her lifetime and third of personal property
To son John A. Wright - land on the east side of the road from Riverton to the Homtown Mill and 2/3 of my
interest in the Double Mills. Also land known as Bennett's Loss containing 15 acres and adjoins the lands of
John B. Taylor and Joshua Bennett and others
To son Josephus A. Wright - bed and furniture
To the children of Joseph P. Twilley by my daughter Easther A. Twilley late of this county - $100
To daughter Louisa H. English wife of Cornelius English - $100
To son Levin E. Wright - land where I now live on the west side of the road from Riverton to the Homtown
Mill third of my interest in the Double Mills
Executor: son Levin
Witness: Thomas B. Taylor, Joseph Brattan, Ezra Boston
13 November 1883 Then came
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Sarah F. Pointer
22 September 1879
To Littleton Robins Tindal son of Mary Campfield - the home plantation of George P. Tindal deceased
which is situated on the south side of Bald Cypress Branch being the same that was owned by the said
deceased and called Discover\'
To husband Benjamin R. Pointer - residue of estate
Executor: husband
Witness: Billy F. Farlow, James H. Farlow, William E. Farlow
21 December 1883 Then came
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Thomas Ryan
16 January 1884
To William Watson - $50
To Pumell Twigg - remainder of estate
Witness: Francis Hayman, Josiah Pollitt, William P. Morris
4 March 1 884 Then came
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Henry P. Lewis
Feb last 1884
"A few requests: I want to be buryed in our row on Peters Hill: Jane by the side of me: I want Kirt Evans to
make my coffin: at Berlin comon plain. Sent at the same time to the Masons. I want them to burry me, have
my apron and scarf put on me, have a black alapackir suit put on me; have my funnerell at the house. I want
wife Gertrude Jane to hav the income of the place: as long as she remains a widow, when she marry s or dies
I want the place sold and equally divided between my seven children namely: Larra E. Lewis, Julia J. Dennis.
John D. H. Lewis, Riley Carrel Lewis, Jula E. Shockly, Viola P. Lewis and Corra E. Lewis. As soon as 1 am
gone I want my tools and all that can be done without sold to apay the ispencis and live on the rest. I want
John W. Davis to assist you - Jane in the buisnes, he is acquainted with the buisness and you will have to
have some one to assist about the sale and getting things reddy. Let him now right away and let him keep
informed. Tern the things to the best advantage or come as near to for you and the children. This is my prayer
Feb last 1 884 Take particular care of the 2 young children Ola and Cora and each of you meet me in
heaven"
19 April 1884 Then came John W. Davis. Then came Elisha Truitt and James Duncan who were acquainted
with the handwriting of H. P. Lewis
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Justina Mitchell
14 February 1884
To husband Wesley W, Mitchell - my right, title, and interest to the farm where I now live on the road
leading from Salisbur>' to Rockawalking
To son Edward D. Mitchell - bed and furniture
To son Corvosa B. Mitchell - bed and furniture
To daughter Minnie Mitchell - bureau, wash stand
Witness: G. H. Taylor, H. F. Pollitt. John Marcellus Dashiell
3 May 1884 Then came
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Gillis Anderson
26 Dec 1883
To wife Martha J. Anderson - all property
To Clemintine Anderson, the wife of my brother James - $50
"that my wife shal out of my property cause to be put at the head and foot of my grave a pare of tombs the
same as those at my first wife's grave"
To William More - $100 at my wife's death
To Archibald Fields - $100 at my wife's death
Executor: William More(Moore)
Witness: Daniel J, Staton, G. W. Cathell, William Cathell
10 May 1884 Then came
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James P. Toadvine
22 May 1872
To sister Elizabeth Fields - $100
To Laura Fields daughter of Elizabeth - $400
To Anna Fields daughter of Elizabeth - $400
To Lafayett Fields son of Elizabeth - $400 and my watch
To Alice Fields daughter of John Alison Fields - $400
To Mary Young daughter of David Young $110
To Emma Young daughter of David Young - $50
To Katie Hammond daughter of Dr. John Hammond - $100
To Ginnie Hammond daughter of Dr. John Hammond - $50
To trustees of the Presbyterian Church in Salisbury - remainder of estate
Executor: Alexander G. Toadvine
Witness: Thomas F. J. Rider, Levin W. Dorman, William E. Brewington
26 May 1884 Then came
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Charlotte Parsons
3 1 May 1 884
To son Charles Parsons - house and lot where I now live on the east side of Poplar Avenue in Salisbury
T son James -$100
To daughter Emily Williams - $100
To husband Samuel Parsons - a home in said house for his lifetime
Executor: John D. Truitt
Witness: S. P. Downing, Samuel Wailes, S. P. Truitt
11 June 1884 Then came
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Joseph Bratten
23 June 1884
To wife Susan Ann - farm for her lifetime(except what is laid off for Thomas B. Taylor)
To Linda Marian, Edith, Ann Rush, Susie Robertson, Emma Porter (my wife's children by me) - the farm
after wife's death
To Louisa Collier wife of Dr. Levin Collier, Robert Franklin, Joseph Gancey, Marianna (my four children by
my former wife Elizabeth) - the Phippin's Promise land
To the Elders of Barren Creek Springs Presbyterian Church; (Train A. Bounds, Isaac H. Houston, J. B.
Armstrong and their successors) - the Presbyterian Church building
To Thomas B. Taylor - deed for land on the north of Rev. John L. Straugh's farm and the farm whereon
George Lowe now lives. This upon paying $30 per acre
Executor: son Robert F. Bratten
Witness: J. B. Armstrong, Thomas B. Taylor, Train Bounds
23 Aug 1884 Then came
Renunciation of the foregoing will by Susan A. Bratten, widow:
24 September 1 884
who elects "to take that proportion of the proceeds of said sale which are allowed widows of my age in such
cases by the Circuit Court for Wicomico County, in Chancery, when real estate is sold under decrees of said
court. My age is forty-five years having been bom on the first day of December eighteen hundred and thirty-
eight."
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Phillip A. Heam
18 August 1884
To wife Hannah - all estate for widowhood and her thirds if she marries
To the children of my brothers and sisters - remainder of estate if wife marries
Executor: wife
Witness: Martha E. Messick, Samuel Graham, Thomas L. Beachamp
10 September 1884 Then came
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Sarah Farlow
2 April 1867
To daughter Mary T. Holloway (formerly wife of Joshua Holloway) - $50 and l/l l of remainder of estate
To daughter Gatty M. Parker (widow of Joshua Parker) - $50 and l/l 1 of remainder of estate
To daughter Mahala E. Parker (wife of Hiram D. Parker) - $50 and l/l l of remainder of estate
To daughter Julia A. Melson (widow of Josephas Melson) - $50 and i/i i of remainder of estate
To Samuel F. Farlow and Jonathan J. Farlow (the heirs of Benjamin B. Farlow) - l/i i of remainder of estate
after deducting the amount for bills incurred that are chargeable against the estate of my son Benjamin
To Billy F. Farlow - l/ll of remainder of estate
To George R. Farlow - i/i i of remainder of estate
To Jonathan S. Farlow - i/i i of remainder of estate
To James H. Farlow - i/ii of remainder of estate
To John H. Farlow - l/l I of remainder of estate
To Hiram W. Farlow - i/i i of remainder of estate
Executor: son Billy
Witness: Joseph L. Staton, William Tilghman, William Downs
6 November 1 884 Then came
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Margaret S. Murphy
I March 1879
To husband Isaac S. Murphy - house and lot in that part of Salisbury known as Camden. The said lot
purchased from Joshua Twilley and wife
Executor: husband
Witness: Joshua Johnson, Robert Disharoon, Willie Ann Trader
14 November 1 884 Then came
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Priscilla A. Bennett of Sharptown
II October 1883
To William E. Bennett and Elizabeth Cooper (wife of Jonathan Cooper) - my two beds and furniture
To Eliza Lowe (wife of James Lowe) and Priscilla Phillips (wife of Columbus Phillips) - all my china
To Emma W. Phillips (daughter of Columbus) and Marion Bennett (son of Dr. Washington Bennett) - real
estate and remainder of personal estate
Executor: Jonathan P. Bennett
Witness: James Robinson, John W. Silby, Albert W. Robinson
28 November 1884 Then came
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Simion Malone
6 July 1883
To brother Levi Malone - all estate
Witness: W. L. Brewington, Solomon R. Corkran, Lemuel Malone, Robert E. Powell
31 January 1885 Then came
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William Disharoon
5 April 1884
To sons Samuel and William Disharoon - the farm on which 1 now live in Trappe District . Each is to have
half as laid out by the survey of James Disharoon and John W. Smith. The survey of James Disharoon begins
on the home line of Firtzells's Enjoyment and at the lower end of a ditch leading across the said William's
land and runs to the road leading from William Disharoon's land to the railroad and thence to a fence
between William Disharoon and John Disharoon. William to have the half where the dwelling is which has
the divisional line between said Disharoon and Capt. Thomas White which was known as Caleb Disharoon's
land and is on the side next to David Pryor.
To wife -$100
To daughters Sallie Ann Disharoon, Elizabeth Ellen Banks, and Martha Jane Fleming - personal estate
Executor: sons Samuel J. and William Francis Disharoon
Witness: Gustavus W. White, Major Phillips, David Prior
4 February 1885 Then came Ellen Rebecca Disharoon, widow of William renounces the above will and
relies on her right under the law
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Leah Weatherly "being old and feeble"
14 May 1881
To grandson Thomas L. Twifford son of Alfred Twifford - Vi acres where the grave yard is . Also land
beginning at the county road at a stone ... and thence with a straight line to the Nanticoke River "but the said
Twifford is nor to sell any part of said land to any negro"
To daughter Easter P. Giles wife of John H. Giles - all land land on the east and south east of the land given
to my grandson running from the 4"" bounder to the wharf Also one workshop and one corn house
To daughters Mary E. Cooper wife of Severn B. Cooper and Charlotte Twifford wife of Alfred Twifford -
residue of land
To Mary E. Venables wife of Thomas W. Venables, Constant Weatherly. John Weatherly; children of my
son Thomas - $20 each
Witness: Train A. Bounds, Turpin R, Bradley, Thomas B. Taylor
10 Feb 1885 Then came
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Mary L. Shockley of the town of Salisbury; "being old and afflicted in body"
9 June 1882
To sister Nelly Lidnum - the house and lot where I now live for her lifetime. After her death, house is to be
sold
To the Old School or Primitive Baptist Church of Salisbury - $100 to be used to keep-up and repair the
enclosure around the meeting house
To Rosa Marion Nock - $100 to be held by her father Littleton Nock until she is of age
To Mary Ann Parker (colored) - $100
To Mary F. Graham daughter of daughter of Wesley W. Thorington - $100 provided she pay "to my sister
Betsy Lidnum the sum of six dollars once in each and every year that she (the said Betsy Lidnum) may live"
To Amelia Wilson wife of Benjamin Wilson (colored) - $50
Executor; Rufus K. Truitt, merchant of Salisbury
Witness: William W. Gordy, James E. Cathell, Daniel HoUoway
Codicil to the above will
23 June 1884
"I hereby make null and void the 6"' item in my will ... and forever cut off Mary F. Graham from claiming
one cent by virtue of said will"
30 March 1885 Then came
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Catherine M. Collins
1 March 1883
That personal estate be sold and used for tombstones for my grave and my mother's grave
Executor: Henry J. Collins
Witness: James Robinson, John W. Covington, Albert W. Robinson
1 Apr 1885 Then came
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Horatio Nelson
10 May 1884
To wife Sally Jane - all property for lifetime and after her death property to be divided among m\ children
Executor: son Archilia F. Nelson
Witness: W. H. Jackson, George T. Huston of William, Hugh Jackson
5 May 1885 Then came
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Peter Dykes of Worcester County
18 March 1866
To oldest son Ebenezer Dykes - land where he now lives called Securities Addition which I bought of Henry
Fookes and Jehew Fookes that was sold at the trustee sale
To son James Dykes - $5 and that already given
To son William Dykes - the home place
To son John Dykes - the place where he now lives and the home place to be divided between him and
William
To daughter Ellen Dykes - $100 and half of personal estate
To the children of my daughter Mary Ann Rook - half of personal estate
Executor: son James
Witness: Benjamin H. Parker, Thomas C. Morris, William H. Jones
7 May 1885 Then came
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Noah B. Wright
29 December 1883
To wife Virginia - all estate for her life time
To nephews John P. Wright and John B. Elliott - estate after wife's death
Executor: Thomas B. Taylor
Witness: Train A. Bounds, Thomas J. Windsor, J, Windsor Bounds
11 May 1885 Then came
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Handy Fooks
24 December 1868
To wife Mary Ann - all estate
Executor: wife
Witness: William Waller, Charles H. Wood, James E. Ellegood
27 May 1883 Then came
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Robert Evans
30 September 1880
To son William F. Evans - Lot # 1 of my real estate (this land binding on the farm of John Willing and on the
Nanticoke River Wicomico Maryland) as laid down on the plot of the same made by William W. Evans May
1880
To son Robert G. Evans - Lot #2 of my real estate (this land bounded by John Turner's line)
To son Charles S. Evans - Lot #3 of my real estate
To son John W. Evans - $100 to be paid to him by each of my other sons within a year of my death and also
$200
To daughter Lucy A. A. Humphreys wife of Alpheus Humphreys - all her indebtedness to me except the sum
of $100"
To daughters Emily Susan Walter, Sarah Virginia Turner, Charlotte Alice Williams - personal estate
Executor: son Robert and son-in-law Levin T. Walter
Witness: L. W. Gunby, Joseph A, Graham, Samuel A. Graham
1 July 1885 Then came
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Elisha P. Bennett
11 June 1885
To nephew Elisha T. D. Bradley - $600 when he is twenty-one
To daughter Nancy C. Gillis wife of William - the above money if nephew Elisha dies without heir and the
farm after wife's death
To wife Mary Jane Bennett - farm with only the privilege of cutting timber and keep-up repairs. Also horse
and carriage and the crop of wheat
Executor: William R. Gillis
Witness: William Howard, Elijah Phillips, W. Frank Howard
4 August 1885 Then came
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Elizabeth Brown of Falls Township, Bucks County Pennsylvania
10 October 1879
To brother George Brown - $ 1 50 a year for his lifetime
To Sarah Bousch daughter of my deceased niece Mary Cole - $500
To nieces and nephews Sarah, Thomas, Caroline. Elizabeth, Anna Maria, Louisa, Emma, Sarah Jane,
Charles, Emma (children of my brothers George and John Brown) - monies from the sale my estate in
Tyburn Township and the proceeds from the sale of real estate in Maryland. The land in Maryland shall not
be sold for a period often years
Executor: cousin Joseph Brown and nephew Charles Brown
Witness: Stacy Hepburn, John Ryan (County of Bucks)
5 August 1884 Then came
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John Parker
10 December 1883
To wife Mahala W. Parker - the farm purchased of Benjamin S. Melson for her lifetime
To son Samuel L. Parker - the farm after wife's death
To son Isaac T. Parker - $140
To daughter Rebecca A. Melson wife of Ezekiel - $140
To daughter Lavinia E. Smith wife of John T. Smith - $140
To son John B. Parker - $25 to be paid out of the sale of personal property after the death of my wife
Executor: son Samuel
Witness: Benjamin W. Parker, Joseph W. Robertson, Samuel E. Foskey
3 September 1885 Then came
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Winder Hastings
2 September 1882
To son John Sydney Hastings - that tract of where 1 now live purchased of the Commissioners to value and
divide the estate of James Johnson and containing 314 acres. Also a tract containing 50 acres purchased of
Theodore Johnson
To son Jacob B. Hastings - all that part of the Jones Farm where Jacob now lives and which 1 purchased of
Thomas Humphreys and L. Ernest Williams, trustees. Also all horses, mules, cattle, carts, and farming
utensils
To daughter Sarah wife of Samuel Leonard - all that part of the Jones Farm where James White now lives
To daughter Irene wife of James Disharoon - all that property called the Jones Mills purchased of L. James
Cathell and Thomas Humphreys, trustees
(Cont.)
21
To daughter Julie Anne wife of John Gordy - farm in Delaware called Poor Chance
To son Elijah - $5
To daughter Mary wife of James White - $5
Executor: son John and Thomas Humphreys
Witness: Samuel H. Evans, W. E. Wailes Jr., W. A. Trader
1 1 September 1885 Then came
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RJioda Robinson
18 April 1885
To William A. Riggin - part of tract called Ireland's Eye which is in the 10* Election District
To John H. Vincent - all sheep and my counterpane which he now uses
That William A. Riggin "shall have me buried in a respectable manner when life shall have departed from
me; and to erect tombstones to my grave"
Executor: William Riggin
Witness: Alisander M. Robertson, Thomas C, Knowles, William J. Knowles
23 November 1885 Then came
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Martin Ross
9 June 1885
To wife Sarah Virginia Ross - my real estate purchased from Mitchell Jones. Also my canoe called Sarah
Virginia with all the masts and sails belonging
To daughter Leah Elizabeth Ross - the above after wife's death
Executor: wife
Witness: Joseph E. Scott, W. C. Nutter, William J. Wailes
24 December 1885 Then came
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Susan Booth
7 April 1880
To son William M. Booth - use of house and lot beginning at the northwest comer of my land where it joins
the land of Benjamin Parsons and William Birckhead and running down to the road and across the field
parallel with B. Parson to Joshua McBrieby's land. This for his lifetime
To Benjamin A. Booth son of William - $50
To my grandchildren (heirs of Benjamin T. Booth) - the above house and lot at William's death
To son Benjamin T. Booth - my home place
To grandson John Thomas Booth, son of Benjamin T. - land on the north side of the county road
Executor: son B. T. Booth
Witness: F. C. Todd, James T. Truitt, H. S. Todd
26 January 1886 Then came
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Samuel B. Phillips of" Little Creek Hundred, Sussex County, Delaware
13 November 1882
To son James H, Phillips - one twenty dollar gold piece. Also the farm where he and his son Samuel now live
that I purchased of Edward Dashiell and Levin Dashiell in Wicomico County adjoining the lands of Franklin
Wilson landlord??(unclear) of John Crocken deceased
To Isaac and William Phillips sons of James H. Phillips - the remainder of the above land at their father's
death
To Samuel, Andrew Jackson, Lizzie, Ida (the other children of James) - $200 each
To son Samuel I. Phillips - one twenty dollar gold piece. Also the farm where he now lives having a westerly
division line drawn from the county road leading from Blackwater to Barren Creek Springs separating this
farm from the Donoho Farm. This being in Little Creek Hundred, Sussex County and adjoining the lands of
Charles B. Elzey, Isaac Phillips and others. This for his lifetime. Also half of the mills, milk yard, and milk
shed. This land between the grist mill and saw mill races on the west side of the dam
To son Rufus W. Phillips - $300 per year for life to be paid by other children and grandchildren. Also one
twenty dollar gold piece
To the two youngest sons of son Samuel named Joseph and "Dink" - the remainder of the lands and mills at
the death of their father
To William, John, Laura, and Anna (the other children of Samuel) - $200 to each son and $ 1 00 the
daughters
To Jefferson Davis Phillips son of Samuel - farm on the south side of Donohoe Mills known as the Mitchell
Wilson farm with its northern limits being the mill yard. This adjoining the lands of John Hughes, Ezekiel
Hitch and others
To James F. Phillips son of James H. - the farm known as the Jimmy Donoho Farm on the north side of the
said mill adjoining the land of Daniel Johnson and others. This in Little Creek Hundred
To Rebecca Phillips (she now being Rebecca Wright wife of Ebenezer A. Wright) - $500 and the bed and
furniture that was promised her by her grandmother
To son Marcellus B. Phillips - one twenty dollar gold piece, yoke of young oxen, timber cart, wayne cart.
plow, also the farm where he now lives for his lifetime. Also half of the Donohoe Mills
To James son of John T. Phillips - the above farm if Marcellus dies without issue
To Jefferson son of Samuel and James son of James - the half of the mill if Marcellus dies without issue
To son John T. Phillips - one twenty dollar gold piece
To Julia A. Phillips wife of John - the farm where they now live in trust for the use of said John T. Phillips to
furnish maintenance to him during his natural life
To the three daughters of Julia and John - the farm at their mother's death
To William S. Phillips son of John T. Phillips - farm bought of Noah Phillips in Wicomico adjoining the
lands of John H. Smith, Hiram B. Cooper and others
To Thomas R. and James T. Phillips sons of John T. Phillips - property in Sharptown
To daughters Eleanor E. Bacon and Mary Lowe - my home farm and all the gold and silver I have deposited
in Georgetown Bank
To Granville Bacon (son of Samuel Bacon) and Nellie Lowe daughter of E. M. Lowe - the home farm at the
death of Eleanor Bacon and Mary Lowe
To Harry Bacon and L Bacon sons of Samuel - land purchased of John L. Bacon being divided from the
land before given to Julia Phillips using the old divisional line of Thomas and Samuel Bailey. This land in
Little Creek Hundred adjoining the lands of Charles Moore and Joseph W. Phillips
To Samuel J. Lowe and Joseph H. Lowe sons of Ebenezer Lowe - all my Cod Creek Farm, Cod Creek Mills
To my seven children - residue of estate
Executor: son James and sons-in-law Samuel Bacon and Ebenezer Lowe
Witness: William E. Thomisin, Charlie A. Heam, Thomas W. Ralph
7 March 1886 Then came
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Albion R. Wright
18 Jan 1886
To wife Lora (Laura) - all the lands which my father Isaac K. Wright devised unto me by his last will and
testament and all my personal property
To sister Cornelia P. Wright - a home for her single life
Executor: wife
Witness: R. V. Taylor, B. S. Bradley, Thomas B. Taylor
23 March 1886 Then came
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Samuel Robertson
2 April 1885
To son Elias J. Robertson - my plantation where, the said Elias now lives, called Betsy's Gift and which I
purchased from Revel Winder and containing 60 acres
To oldest daughter Nancy H. Robertson - plantation called Part of Betsy's Gift
To granddaughter Nancy E. J. Rencher - $50
To youngest daughter Annie Rencher - plantation that I purchased from William Robertson and where
Rebecca Robertson now lives
Executor: son
Witness: William Douglass, Esau Insley, William J. Wailes
I May 1886 Then came
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Ann Maria Mitchell of Sussex County Greenborough Hundred
(But now visiting my brother Alexander P. Malone in Wicomico County)
16 April 1886
To brother Alexander Malone - $240 with interest which is included in two notes of hand held against John
Reddish and Peter Hobbs
To Robert Malone, Alexander Malone Jr., (the sons of my brother Alexander) - personal property
Executor: brother
Wimess: I. H. A. Dulany, William McGarth, Michael Carey
4 May 1886 Then came
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Sallie Smith
27 August 1885
To husband Edward J. Smith - my interest in the house and lot in Quantico District situated on the east side
of the road leading from Spring Hill Church to Rewastico Mills. This for his lifetime
To Thomas J. D. Bailey son of Thomas J. Bailey - the above house and lot after husband's death
To Lovey Tull - bed and furniture for her lifetime
To Lillie W. Fitzgerald - the above bed and furniture after Lovey's death
Executor: friend E. Stanley Toadvine
Witness: George W. Bell, William Graham
II May 1886 Then came
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Josiah Johnson
17 December 1885
To niece Resiner Mezick - $100
To niece Eliza Jane Johnson - $100
To niece Amelia Ann Twilly - $100
To niece Drucilla Chatum - $100
To niece Emeline Coulbome - $400
To Corral, Authur, and the other name not known; the children of my niece Margaret Twilly (late wife of
Levin Twilly deceased) - $450
To nephew Josiah Thomas Johnson - residue of estate
Executor: nephew Josiah
Witness: Samuel H. Fooks, C R. Jordan, Sylvanus Trader
9 July 1886 Then came
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Thomas Stevens
10 February 1886
To Annie Stevens wife of my brother Albert Stevens - all estate
Executor: Annie Stevens
Witness: William J. Riggin, W. S. Hastings, John H. Riggin
7 September 1886 Then came
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Eleanor S. Woolford
12 July 1884
To grandson George A. H. Woolford - house and lot in Quantico with all the furniture for his lifetime and
then to his children. Also $500 to erect a railing around the family burying ground in the graveyard
belonging to the Protestant Episcopal Church in Quantico
To great-granddaughter Nellie Woolford Brady - the above house and lot if George dies without issue and to
"my said great-granddaughter Eleanor Woolford Brady" $1000
Executor: George Ashby Handy Woolford of Quantico
Witness: George A. Bounds, Benjamin Moore, A. L. Jones
3 November 1886 Then came
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Eliza W. Fooks
15 December 1883
To Cornelia E. Marshall - my old bureau, washstand, feather bed, third of the spoons in the large box, small
rocking chair and $1000 when she is of age
To Lida B. Marshall (sister of Cornelia) - best bureau, bed, third of the spoons in the large box, small
rocking chair, set of cane chairs, big looking glass and $1000 when she is of age
To daughter Julia T. Marshall wife of Albert Marshall - S7 per month for her lifetime, third of the spoons in
the large box. Also the land and premises, woods, ways and privileges of the land I bought of James Laws
situated near Pittsville west of Leonard J. Timmonds and north of the Wicomico and Pocomoke Railroad.
The residue of the estate at the death of her husband
Executor: J. R. Laws and James H. Farlow
Witness: James C. Littleton, Billy F. Farlow, William Farlow
29 October 1886 Then came
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Samuel Fooks
21 August 1886
To sons Thomas S. Fooks and Howard H. Fooks - the farm where I now live and that they shall support my
youngest children Julia and Elisha Fooks using the interest from the sale of personal property
To sons Thomas, Howard, James Henry Fooks, and Elisha Fooks - proceeds from sale of land after the
youngest are of age in the 1895
To daughters Eliza and Julia - $100 each
Executor: sons Thomas and Howard
Witness: H. Laird Todd, John L. Morris, Samuel Graham
29 January 1 897 Then came
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William F. Washburn
18 January 1887
To sons Christopher Columbus Washburn and George William Washburn - real estate in Trappe Election
District on the public road called the Ferry Road which leads from Princess Anne Road at a point near Rum
Bridge to the Upper Ferry
Whereas I have conveyed to son Christopher by deed dated 8 December 1884 a part of this land on the south
side of said road, I now give to the said Christopher all the aforesaid land on the north side of Ferry Road
and on each side of a line beginning near a bridge and running to the comer of the land sold by me to
Ephraim Banks and that George to have the remainder of land
To my six daughters; Louisanna Fletcher wife of William Fletcher, Sally Hayman wife of Thomas Hayman,
Isabella Donalds wife of James Donalds of Deals Island, Americus Hayman wife of L Hayman, Mary Ann
Crouch wife of William Crouch and "unmarried daughter" Betsey Jane Washburn - $25 each
Executor: sons Christopher and George
Witness: A. F. Smith, Louis Morris
12 February 1887 Then came
F:149
Eliza J. W. Dashiell of Somerset County
20 November 1884
To son Levin J. Dashiell - my farm, where the said Levin now lives, purchased from Isaac D. Jones in
Wicomico County
To son Caleb R. Dashiell - $200
To James L. Dashiell son of Oliver Dashiell - SlOO when he is of age
To daughter Harriet E. Milboume - residue of estate after paying my doctor's bills and the note due from
my brother James W. Hughes for $500
Witness: J. W. Hughes, George E. White, E. F. Broughham
28 December 1886 Then came
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James P. Oilplant
10 August 1885
To wife Mary - plantation where I now live for her widowhood or lifetime
To daughters Mariah J. Oliphant and Sarah Oliphant - the above land after wife's death. Also the land
bought of S Broughham lying on the west side of the county road leading from the Melson Meeting House
to Salisbury. Also land bought of S Heam lying on the north side of said road
To son Eupine? Oliphant - land on the north side said road purchased from Benjamin Gordy and S Heam
To daughters Eliza E. Parker and Lauzer A. Brown - that land purchased of Henry Mills and where Benjamin
Truitt now lives
To daughters Hester Gordy wife of William Gordy and Caroline Gordy wife of Hansen Gordy -land where
Spicer Gordy lived
To son William Oliphant -$1
To son John B, Oliphant - $50
To son Minos W. Oliphant - $1
That land known as the Mary Gordy Farm lying north and south of the branch be sold and divided among
children. That land that I purchased of Spicer Gordy lying on the south side of the county road where Nathan
Gordy lived be sold and divided among children.
To grandson James Oilplant - $20
To grandson Merrlon Oilplant - $20
Executor: wife and William Oilplant
Witness: Billy H. Farlow, Clayton C. Parker, William S. Parker
Codicil to above will
5 September 1885
To daughter Adova Etta wife of Clayton Jackson - $500
Witness: Elijah Melson, B. H. Farlow,
10 March 1887 Then came
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Manean Gum of Frankford Sussex County Delaware
15 March 1886
To wife Sarah - the land where 1 now live in Baltimore Hundred lying on the east side of Gum Mill Pond and
on the southwest of the county road leading from Frankford to Selbyville adjoining the lands of the heirs of
John Hickman and of Ebe Williams and containing about 10 acres and third of real estate In lieu of her
dower. This for her lifetime
To children Charles F. Gum, Martha Cannon wife of Luther W. Cannon, William A. Gum, Mary E. Gum
widow of Joseph W. Hall, Francis M. Gum, Sarah J. Poole wife of Robert W. Poole, Lavinia Walter wife of
Ebe? W. Walter, and John A. Gum - two thirds of real estate
Executor: sons William and Francis
Witness: Robert W. Daisey, Samuel H. Layton, Alfred B. Long
23 March 1887 Then came
F:156
John Hamblln
7 November 1884
To wife Hester ("if she survives me") - all personal estate and all stock and all notes or debts due me. Also
the income of my real estate for "her years after my death" for her support and maintenance of my five
children namely John, Allen, Frances, y, and Hester Hamblin
Executor: wife Hester
Witness: George W. Freeny, William Sheppard, J. J. Fooks
24 March 1887 Then came
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Elisha Parsons
8 February 1886
To Jidda Parsons widow of James Parsons (my eldest son) and her children - $25
To son Minos H. Parsons - $200
To son William F. Parsons - $200
To daughter Elizabeth A. Parsons - $200
Executor: Billy H. Farlow
Witness: Samuel Riley, Samuel P. Parsons, John W. Wimbrow, Elijah H. Parsons
8 April 1887 Then came
F:159
Hugh Jackson
4 February 1883
To wife Sarah Jackson - all property
Executor: wife
Witness: George W. Truitt, J. T. Goslee, James T. Truitt
19 April 1887 Then came
F:160
Samuel White
8 March 1887
To son Enoch George White - that farm now occupied by Noah Parsons ("cold.") extending to the land 1 sold
to William Brown
To daughter Melicke (Milissa?) C. White - $200
To son Elijah E. White - house and lot in Salisbury where 1 now live
To granddaughter Emma daughter of son Thomas W. White - $100 when she is of age
To daughter Melissa C. White - tract of land adjoining the lands of Elijah Heam and the land conveyed to
son Enoch
To son Ebenezer White - tract called Spring Hill where he now lives
To son Howard White - $600
To grandson James son of son James - $200
To William Tilghman, John Tilghman, Ida Tilghman children of Noah J. Tilghman by my daughter Mary
(deceased) - $200 each
To my children Elijah, Enoch, Ebenezer, Milissa - all my books and the fixtures hanging on the walls
That the vacant lot near the splinter mill in Salisbury and adjoining a lot of Ulman & Bro. And the residue of
estate be sold and the proceeds be divided among my children and grandchildren William Tilghman, John
Tilghman, Ida Tilghman, and James B. White
To wife Nancy - the sum of $10 annually for life to be paid my sons Elijah and Ebenezer and $5 to be paid
by Millissa
Executor: son Ebenezer
Witness: Charles F. Holland, F. M. Slemons,
Codicil to above will
6 April 1887
To wife Nancy - the land and lot in Salisbury where I now live
To son Elijah - the above after wife's death
To granddaughter Emma daughter of Thomas White - $50 when she is of age
Witness: John D. Truitt. F. M. Slemons
5 May 1887 Then came
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Anne Maria Freeny
22 April 1886
To son John Oscar Freeny - parcel of land where he now lives on the north west side of the Wicomico River
purchased of Hugh Jackson and wife, Josephus Humphreys and wife, and William W. Johnson and wife.
Also the use of the road as at present used by him running through the land known as the Hearn Farm and
leading to the new county road running to Salisbury
To daughter Maria Alice Freeny - that parcel of land known as the Hearn Farm on the north and west side of
the Wicomico River purchased from Isaac W. Hearn and Doctor Francis Slemons
To daughter William Anna Freeny - half of the tract of land in the Trappe District on the south side of the
Wicomico River containing 417 acres it being the land purchased by me at the Executor's sale of my
deceased husband's real estate. Also two houses and lots in Salisbury situated on High Street
To grandson Walter Cathell Humphreys - the remaining half of the tract in the Trappe District during his
lifetime
To grandson William Morris Freeny - $600
Executor: son John
Witness: F. M. Slemons, Emma L. Rasch
24 May 1887 Then came
F:164
George T. Carey
25 January 1887
To wife Elizabeth - all estate
Executor: wife
Witness: William J. Riggin, George Hammond, Jacob Morris
9 August 1887 Then came
F:166
Mary E. Hearn wife of Benjamin
13 October 1882
To daughter Laura J. Brenizer - all real and personal property including the house and lot in Philadelphia
number 512 Federal Street and my real estate in Wicomico County
Executor: daughter
Witness: Handy Fooks, S. P Dennis, Ella Ward
23 August 1887 Then came
F:167
Stephen McKinzie
1 March 1883
To wife Eleanor - house and lot in Shad Point known by the name of Cherry Hill and also all household and
kitchen furniture
Executor: son James Polk McKinzie
Witness: John W. White, John H. White, James T. Truitt
22 August 1887 Then came
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Hetty Lewis
7 March 1884
To granddaughter Sarah Lewis - bed and bedstead, pair of sheets, quilts and counterpane
To granddaughter Hetty Palmer - $5
To grandsons Isaac Lewis and Hiram James Johnson Lewis - $5 each
To granddaughters Lewis and Anna Bell Lewis - $5 each
To grandchildren Thomas J. Lewis, Charissa Lewis, William H. Lewis, King Lewis, Jacob Reed Lewis - $5
To son Hiram Lewis - remainder of property
Executor: son Hiram
Witness: Henry Powell, William T. Truitt, Charles Collins
27 September 1887 Then came
F:169
James Toadvine
17 September 1887
To wife Rachel - all estate for lifetime
To sons Elijah and Joseph Toadvine - home farm of 100 acres
To sons Alfred, Theodore, and William Toadvine - remainder of real estate
Executor: son Alfred
Witness: William J. Riggin, Peter J. B. Hobbs, Elifaha McGrath
9 November 1887 Then came
F:170
Henry Fooks
3 August 1887
To son Levin - having heretofore made provision for my son Levin Fooks, I give and bequeath personal
property only consisting of bed and furniture and grey horse called Bird, six silver spoons
To children Merrill H. Fooks, Emily Gordy, Martha Perdue wife of John D. Perdue. Oliva Trader wife of J.
H. Trader - remainder of property
Executor: son Merrill
Witness: James E. EUegood, Daniel J. HoUoway
18 January 1888 Then came
F:171
Mary Pryor
30 December 1886
To sister Elizabeth E. King - my right and title to tract called Laban's Discovery
To Alexander King son of Elizabeth - the above land at the death of Elizabeth
Witness: E. A, Denson, H. S. W. Denson, J. M. Whayland
7 February 1888 Then came
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Eliza Pollin
15 October 1884
To husband Ephraim Pollitt - all property for his lifetime
To children Mary Vandyke wife of Stephen Vandyke, Martha Pollitt, James Pollitt, George Pollitt, Julia A.
Baily wife of John Baily - property at husband's death
Executor: Charles F. Holland
Witness: James Venables, W. J. Todd
7 February 1 888 Then came
Codicil to above will
15 June 1885
To children George Pollitt, Martha, and Julia Baily - my interest in house and lot in Salisbury which was
conveyed to me and Ephraim Pollitt by deed from Jehu (John?) Parsons
Witness: John Coulbome, Charles Holland
7 February 1888 Then came Charles F. Holland ... witness to the foregoing codicil to the last will and
testament of "'Eliza Fooks" (note: the codicil is presented as: " / Eliza Pollitt " j
F;174
Lorretta A. Taylor
26 September 1887
To sister Sophromin J. Taylor and brother John Taylor - all real estate
To the Vestry of Spring Hill Church - $ 1 00
To the Trustees of the Methodist-Protestant Church at Riverton - $100
To John Winfield Bradley son of Benjamin Bradley - my gold watch that belonged to Josephus A. Taylor
Executor: brother
Witness: Isaac S. Bennett, Thomas B. Taylor, James H. Huston
8 March 1888 Then came
F:175
Amelia A. Turner
23 January 1888
To Lous E. Brown - my interest in the lot in Camden, Salisbury adjoining the house and lot of Isaac Murph\
To S J. Brown - my log cabin quilt and china
To Mary Ellen Crockett - shell quilt and shell box
To Isaac Brown - best leather trunk
To Mary Brown - my wine basket
Executor: Lous E. Brown
Witness: Ida Gilbert, Isaac H. A. Dulany
21 February 1888 Then came
F:177
Sarah Mc. B. Jackson
15 October 1887
That suitable stones be placed at the grave of my deceased husband Hugh Jackson and that like stones be
placed at my grave
To daughters Sarah C. Phillips wife of Jacob C. Phillips and Elizabeth E. Phillips wife of George W. Phillips
- remainder of estate with Sarah taking as part of her share, all the money which her husband Jacob owned
my late husband Hugh Jackson. "I do not think my daughter would want my Executor to inforce the payment
of the said debts and because I think it proper that she, instead of her sister, should hold them against her
husband"
(Cont.)
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To son Richard W. Phillips (sic) - family bookcase and desk
To son Elihu Jackson - the old family Bible
To son Isaac A. Jackson - the old Protestant-Episcopal Church prayer book
To sons Elihu, William H., Richard W., Wilber F., and Isaac A. - each a chair of my parlor suit of furniture
To grandson Hugh son of Elihu Jackson - silver pitcher and two silver goblets presented to me at my golden
wedding
To grandson Hugh Phillips son of Sarah - my silver cake basket
"My sons are sufficiently provided for in this worlds goods and do not need or desire that I should give then
other of my property"
Executor: Elihu Jackson
Witness: James Ellegood, Albert Smith
20 March 1888 Then came
F:179
Rider Adkins
14 May 1885
To wife Ann Mariah - all personal property for her lifetime and her thirds in lands
To daughter Mary Martha Powell wife of Elisha A. Powell - land on the east side of the road over the old
mill between the mill race and the Farlovv land where Mrs Burbage now lives
To son King L. White Adkins - the farm that I bought of Mary or J. M. Adkins formerly the property of my
brother Wilber situated on the east side of the road from my house to his
To son Ernest Mitchell Adkins - all of my home place being the land on the west side of the road leading
from Leonard Morris toward the old mill before mentioned or Pittsville
Witness: James Duncan, Peter Duncan, Jason A. Morris
22 May 1888 Then came
F:180
Elisha J. White
12 April 1886
To wife Mary E. White - all property for lifetime
To my children by the said Mary (if there are children at the time of my death) - property after her death
Witness: H. Laird Todd, James E. Ellegood
20 July 1888 Then came
F:182
Mariah Furbish in the Third Election District
8 May 1888
To son William P. Douglas - all the parcel of land purchased of Stephen Cook containing about 12 acres
and remainder of property
Executor: son
Witness: Robert C. Mitchell, Levin B. Newton, James B. Harris
20 July 1888 Then came
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Phyllis Dryden
30 November 1887
To granddaughter Elizabeth Parker wife of Elijah Parker - $60
To grandson Joshua J. Dryden - $60
To granddaughter Elizabeth and grandson Joshua - a note of hand held against their father James Dryden
To son George J. Dryden, son Isaac W. Dryden, son Joshua L. Dryden, and granddaughter Mary A. Johnson
- remainder of estate
Executor: son George
Witness: Daniel J. Staton, Major L. Phillips, William Dykes
7 August 1888 Then came
F:184
Eliza Penuel
9 May 1887
To Julia Parsons and Sarah Jane Aikman - bedding, trunks and whatever household property I may have to
distribute by them among themselves and their neighbors
To the Trustees of the Methodist Protestant Church of Salisbury - all money due my estate in notes or bonds
Executor: Irving Powell
Witness: Jay Williams, Robert D. Ellegood, A. Aikman, E. L. Williams
F:185
Nancy Collins
20 April 1888
To Susan E. Fields - best feather bed, two pillows, two sheets
To brother Levin G. Dutton - one cupboard, bureau, two rocking chairs, six cane bottom chairs, all my wall
pictures, cherry table, cook stove and fixtures
To nephew Henry Fields - feather bed, two books, white horse, horse cart
To Nicholas Gunby - dark brown cow, bed downstairs, small Bible, trunk, half of hogs, tea kettle
To John Gale - bed and furniture, small looking glass, old clock, fowl of all kind
To nephew James Dutton - six flag chairs, one common table, pot hangers, common tinware
To nephew Noah Dutton - best mantle clock
To Nicholas Gunby and James Dutton - all farming implements
To the daughters of Aaron Gale and Charlotte Dutton - my wearing apparel
Witness: Levin B. Price, F_ F. Price, Alexander King
21 July 1888 Then came
F:187
Esther A. Williams
31 September 1887
To daughter Octavia A. Cox - $1
To daughter Thomasine R. Wilmer - all my personal effects now in her possession such as bed and bedding
and general household and kitchen items
To daughter Anna B. Williams - feather bed and parlor organ
To daughter Virginia A. Bartley - bed and furniture
To children William C. Williams, Ella V. More?, Anne B. Williams and Virginia A. Bartly - remainder of
estate
Executor: son William
Witness: R. Truitt, George W. Truitt, Joseph Heam
6 September 1888 Then came
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Margarite E. Brewington
3 November 1884
To daughter Margarite E. Brewington - $5
To daughters Nettie and Lucy Brewington - feather bed each
To children Melissa A. Gordy, Octavia C. Kinny, and Nettie and Lucy, George H., Euphrastus A. -
house and lot in Delmar bought of Elijah Freeny with the understanding that it not be sold as long as Nettie
and Lucy remain single and that my husband James Brewington is to have the privilege of a home as long as
he remains a widower and if the house is sold during his life time, he shall be paid for his work on the house
and it is my desire that my invalid chair shall be for use of any one of them in case of sickness
Executor: daughters Nettie and Lucy
Witness: Augustus Culver, H. Laird Todd
13 November 1888 Then came
F:190
Robert J. Brittingham
21 September 1888
To wife Amelia - her thirds and the remainder of property
To children Edward, Annie, James, Harry, Lula, and Willie - note owed by Isaac Brittingham for $300
Executor: wife
Witness: James W. Parker, John H. Dennis
2 November 1888 Then came
F:191
Elizabeth Taylor wife of Isaac Taylor
24 November 1884
To daughters Amanda Jackson widow of Thomas L. Jackson, Arietta Phillips wife of Elijah Phillips, Sarah
Lowe wife of George Lowe - land situated in Barren Creek District called Oak Hall and Dashiell's Success
adjoining the land of Richard Venables, Tubman Seabrease, William Pollitt and others being the land which
was occupied by my late son Washington D. Taylor and containing 146 acres. This with the proviso that my
husband have a good and sufficient maintenance during his life and decent burial according to his station in
life out of the same
TosonElias W.Taylor- $100
Executor: George Lowe
Witness: B. Amistrong, Thomas J. Windsor, Thomas B. Taylor
25 October 1888 Then came
F:192
Milley White
21 November 1874
To daughter Hannah wife of Levan Parsons - the house and lot in that part of Salisbury known as
Georgetown during her lifetime and then to her children. Also my personal property and $100 with interest
that I have deposited in Northern Savings Bank of Baltimore
Executor: John White Senior
Witness: John D. Truin, Charlotte White, Samuel Wailes
24 December 1888 Then came
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Ozias Bailey
5 May 1888
To son Alison Bailey - land where I now live containing 20 acres. All hogs, cattle, hogs and farming utensils
To son Alison and daughter Emma Bailey - remainder of property and that Emma shall have a home with
Alison as long as she may "want to stay and remain single"
Executor: son
Witness: Thomas B. Taylor, Richard V. Taylor
18 December 1888 Then came
F:194
George W. Humphreys
28 June 1887
To daughter Malvina Seabrease wife of Thomas W. Seabrease - my house and lot in Salisbury
To grandchildren Lula wife of William E. Dorman, Cora wife of R. Laws, and George Collier - balance of
estate
Executor: daughter
Witness: Thomas Smith, Thomas Humphreys
20 Februan,' 1 889 Then came
F:196
Sabra Benson of Sharptown
20 August 1886
"being old and feeble"
To William R. Robinson son of Elijah - horse and cart
To Thomas J. Twilley - $200 to enclose my grave and the grave of my husband Jonathan Benson and the
graves of my two children with and iron railing
To the Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Sharptown - residue of estate
Executor: Thomas Twilley
Witness: Walter Mann, Lambert Ellis, Isaac Murphy
9 July 1889 Then came
F:197
James W. Downing of Wicomico (but in Sussex at the time of this writing)
13 May 1889
To sons James H. Downing. William J. Downing, Levin W. Downing - land in Maryland with the proviso
that they care for their mother "San," Downing as long as she lives. That my notes of hand and money shall
be applied to building a house on my lot in Delmar for my wife Sarah Downing
To daughter Mary E. Smith - $100 to be paid by my sons at the death of their mother
Executor: sons
Witness: Samiel E. Foskey, Lavater H. Heam
15 July 1889 Then came
F:199
Aaron W. Hill
14 November 1887
To Samuel Graham - $200 insurance from a policy with United Workman to be applied to the pa\ ment of
two mortgages held by him on my real estate
To wife Margaret Ann Hill - residue of estate
Executor: Samuel Graham
Witness: Levin D. Collier, George R. Collier
22 July 1889 Then came
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F:200
Winder Hasting of A.
24 March 1883
To wife Sarah Ann Hasting - all property for life or widowhood
To children Martin E., William, Mary Ellen Bailey wife of Albert Bailey, Maria Jan Layfield wife of George
W. Layfield - property after death of wife
Executor: wife and Thomas Humphreys
Witness: Samuel H. Fooks, James B. Perdue, Thomas W. Bailey
6 August 1889 Then came
F:201
Asa Graham
29 July 1889
To John Graham, William Graham, and Francis Graham sons of James Graham - five acres of land lying on
the north side of the road that leads to my house from the comer of a piece of land that 1 sold to J. Wesley
Bradley. The line running with the road and then to a creek
That Francis J. Kennerly be empowered to sell all the residue of estate
To Elizabeth Kennerly wife of Thomas Kennerly - 3/4 of proceeds from sale of estate
To Mary Kennerly wife of Isaac Kennerly - 1/4 of proceeds from sale of estate
Executor: Francis Kennerly
Witness: William G. Holmes, Thomas B. Taylor
30 September 1889 Then came
F:203
Samil? Collier, farmer
31 July 1889
To William Henry Jones - $5
To Samuel Ennis son of Sarah? Ennis - $5
To Samuel Ennis son of Biddy Johnson - $5
To the Trustees of Barren Creek Colored Methodist Episcopal Church - $10
That $25 be used to place a stone at the grave of my wife Ardilla and my own grave
To wife Betsy - $50 and "my interest in the dearborn 1 now use"
To wife Betsy and Henry Dashiell - half of the remainder of estate
Executor: Baynard Brown of Sharptown
Witness: Thomas W. English, C. C. Bradley, Asa A. B. English
23 September 1889 Then came
F:204
Alfred E. McAllister
1 April 1889
To son Ira McAllister - bed, bedstead, two quilts, pair of pillows, bolster when he is of age
To "my little friend" Addie E. Burnett - $5
To daughter Roxie McAllister - residue of estate
Executor: friend Samuel W. Burnett and "beloved" daughter Roxie
Witness: James B. Armstrong, Joseph P. Huston
17 October 1889 Then came
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Henriett Byrd
23 August 1889
To the Trustees of Saint Peters Protestant Episcopal Ciiurch - $1500 to pay off the mortgage of church
To grandson Harvey Byrd Morris - remainder of estate
To the children of brother J. M. Fooks - remainder of estate if Harvey dies without issue
Witness: Annie M. Byrd, Hannah L. W. White
16 January 1890 Then came
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Elizabeth McBride Acworth
2 1 October 1 88 1
"that my body be buried in the churchyard of the Presbyterian Church in Salisbury in a walnut casket, the
grave bricked up"
To the Committee of the Wicomico Presbyterian Church - $200 toward the completion of the tower
Executor: Train Bounds
Witness: Thomas Humphreys, F. M, Slemons
24 March 1890 Then came
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Drusilla W. Messick
1 October 1880
To youngest son William B. Messick - all land in Tyaskin District on the east side of a private road leading
from M. E. Church to James W. J. Robertson and on the south side of a ditch beginning near the northeast
comer of the farm now occupied by Benjamin Roberts and thence northeast to the land of Sarah Brewington.
This containing about six acres
To oldest son Thomas Messick - residue of real estate
To grandson John Messick - residue of estate if Thomas should die without issue
Executor: son Thomas
Witness: G. Robertson, James W. T. Robertson, J. M. Roberts
6 May 1890 Then came
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Sallie Maddux
1887
To son Jason Maddux - lot of ground, household and kitchen furniture
To son John Maddux - $1
To daughter Mary Morris - $1
To son Joseph Maddux - $1
To son William Maddux - $10
To son George Maddux - $1
To son Sylvanius Maddux - $1
Executor: son Jason
Witness: S. P. Downing, D. S. Wooten, W. S. Boston
14 May 1890 Then came
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William W. Gordy
18 April 1890
To wife Mary Ann - for her lifetime, property at the comer of Church and Division Streets in Salisbury
adjoining the property of Robert E. Powell on the north and east and bounded on the west by Division Street
and on the south by East Church Street and residue of property
To half-sister Emily Phillips wife of James A. Phillips, half-brother Elijah J. Parsons, half-brother Edwin C.
Parsons, the issue of my half-brother George Andrew Parsons (now deceased) - the above property after
wife's death
To half-sister Emily Phillips wife of James A. Phillips - a mortgage that 1 hold against them on a farm in
Nutters District amounting to $1 108.42 principal and dated 26 April 1872
To the issue of my half-brother George Andrew Parsons (now deceased) - the cancellation of all debt against
him
To the descendants of my uncle Thomas Gordy (being?) Perry Gordy, Garrison Gordy, Spicer Gordy and of
Aunt Polly West wife of William West - my right, title, and interest to tract of land on the west side of the
Middle Neck Road and on the north side of Middle Neck Branch being a tract which I got from my father
Wesley Gordy sometimes called Tinapin? Hill. This lying to the north of and binding on the above tract, the
latter being a tract which I agreed to sell to Charles B for which there is now a proceeding pending on the
Equity Side of the Circuit Court
Executor; friend James Cannon
Witness: W. S. Gordy, James E. Ellegood
26 May 1890 Then came
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James H. Penewell
24 May 1890
Top wife Emma E. - all property for her lifetime
To children Noah J. and Sallie M. Penewell - property after wife's death
Executor: wife
Witness: James W. Parker, William Reddish, George W. Parker
10 June 1890 Then came
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Daniel Heam of Laurel Delaware
28 December 1886
To wife Amelia - all person property and the house and lot in Laurel with the adjoining house and lot known
as the Penitentiary for her lifetime and the sum of $450 per year
To Emma Sirman daughter of Isaac Sirman of Laurel - the house and lot in Laurel now occupied by John S.
Bacon and $200 at the age of twenty-one
To the Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Laurel - the house and lot now used as a parsonage
To John D. H. Long son of Emily E. E. Long - $1000
To Sallie Edwards daughter of John Edwards (deceased) - $ 1000
To Maria Jane Morgan widow of James Morgan - $200
To niece Sallie Horsey - $2500 and the house and lot called the Penitentiary at the death of my wife
To niece Mary E. Collier of Wicomico County - $5000 and the house and lot where 1 now live at the death of
my wife
To nephew Daniel J. Fooks - all land in Maryland being my storehouse, granary, and wharf, wharf at the
railroad, all my shares in the Bank of Georgetown and the bank at Newcastle. That he is to take good care of
my wife during her lifetime
Executor: Daniel Fooks of Little Creek Hundred
Witness: Thomas C. Horsey, W. I. Records, W.B. Records
2 January 1 890 Then came
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Rosa J. Walter wife of Robert Walter of Tyaskin District
15 October 1886
To husband Robert - all personal property and all real estate
To daughters Sally Jane Walter and Alberta Walter - real estate after death of husband
To grandson William Walter - real estate if daughters die without issue and share of life insurance
Executor: husband
Witness: Samuel A. Langrall, William J. Wailes, S. B. Langrall
14 August 1890 Then came
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Samuel A. Graham
3 December 1890
To wife Louisa - all estate
Executor: wife
Witness: Robert P. Graham, Samuel A. Graham
23 December 1890 Then came
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John R. Ingersoll
7 May 1890
To daughter Mary Ingersoll - the cleared land of my farm on the north east side of a line beginning with a
stone on the east side of the road leading from the county road to where Jonah Cooper now lives and running
northwest to where Mrs. Mary Toadvine now lives.
To son Oscar Ingersoll - all the cleared land on the southward side and the wooded land to Coals Branch
Executor: Apheus Rencher
Witness: M. B. Downing, L. C. Toadvine, H. V. Toadvine
14 October 1890 Then came
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Josiah Bailey of Little Creek Hundred, Sussex Delaware
19 July 1886
To wife Margaret - that part of my home farm beginning at the comer of my land and the land of Robert O.
Twilley and Mary A. Waller (deceased) and running with the big ditch to the field next to where Joseph W.
Phillips now lives. This for her lifetime
To son Joseph J. Bailey - the above land after wife's death and part of personal property after wife's death
To daughter Rachel M. Bailey - part of personal property after wife's death and a home with her mother.
Also that part of the land bought at Sheriffs sale as the property of Frederick Phillips that is east and south
and west of the home farni and running to the land of William G. Hearn and the two acres where the new
house now stands
To son James W. Bailey - that part of home farm on the east side of the above mentioned line
To son Jonathan E. Bailey - all the notes held against him and $100
To daughter Mahala S. Phillips - $10 and residue of land bought at the sale of Frederick Phillips for her
lifetime
To Josiah B. son of daughter Mahala - the above land after his mother's death
To daughter Margaret A. Beach - the land purchased of Samuel Bratten in Wicomico County containing 160
acres
To daughters Elizabeth A. Windsor and Pattie E. Calloway - $700 each in lieu of land given to daughter
Margaret
Executor: wife and William B. Records
Witness: Kames C. Owens, Robert O. Twilley, Joseph W. Phillips
15 April 1890 Then came
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Eliza Huffington
1 July 1890
To daughter Ella Drucilla Huffington - as long as she is unmarried, house, lot, and property where I now live
located at Allen which is north of the lot owned by John Whayland and east of the county road and west of
the lot of B. Frank Messick. Also my gold watch, set of teaspoons with the initial "D" on them, parlor
furniture
To daughter Esther Rhutta Huffington - the above property after the death or marriage of Ella. Also set of
china and any other household items
To Emily Waller and Williamanna Whayland - the above property if daughters die without issue
To daughters Emily V. Waller, Williamannna Whayland, Ella and Esther - balance of estate
Executor: Robert F. Brattan of Somerset County
Witness: W. J. Brewington, J. W. Crisfield, John H. Bell
31 January 1891 Then came
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Mary Smith
17 September 1890
To granddaughter Amelia Smith - bed and furniture and bed coverings. Also house and lot at Sharpers Point
To grandson Nelson Smith - the above if Amelia dies without issue
To husband Charles - home for his lifetime in the above house
To son Addison Smith - home for his lifetime in the above house
Executor: husband Charles
Witness: William J. Riggin, Rouza Smith, Ida W. Williams
21 February 1891 Then came
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Ellen Penuel
12 January 1891
To daughter Lizzie Powell wife of Irving Powell - house and lot in Salisbury on the north side of and
binding on Walnut Street and bounded on the east by the property of William H. Jackson, and on the west by
the property of James E. Ellegood and George Waller and on the north by the lot of the Episcopal Rectory
To son Lee Penuel - a note 1 hold against him and also all the money owing to me by the firm of R. E. Powell
& Company of Salisbury
To niece Drucella Ballard - one large trunk
That the money in Salisbury Permanent Building & Loan be used for funeral expenses
Witness: R. E. Powell, S. T. Dennis
24 February 1 89 1 Then came
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Levi Malone
25 July 1888
To wife Letitia Malone - all estate for lifetime
To sons Simion F. Malone, Levi A. Malone, George T. Malone - lands and premises
To daughters Mary V. Turner, Sally A. Malone. Elizabeth Ellen Malone, Emma L. Malone - $150 each and
that unmarried shall have a home in my house for their single life
Executor: Simion Malone (but if he should be dead or disqualified by any physical or mental disease, then
either of my other sons may be Executor)
Witness: Lemuel Malone, Levin B. Price, Finly F. Price
14 May 1891 Then came George T. Malone
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Robert J. Garnet
8 April 1890
To nephew Robert Barkley son of Jessie Barkley - land where I now live except for 1/4 acre
To the Joint Stock Institution - 1/4 acre of land at the corner of my field where The Hall now stands
To Charlotte Barkley and Matilda Laws - my carriage
To brother Alfred Barkley - residue of personal property
Executor: John Wright
Witness: John S. Robertson, William H. Heath, Samuel E. Heath
26 May 1891 Then came
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Levin B. Littleton
6 April 1889
To wife Sarah Littleton - all estate for lifetime or widowhood
To children Mary A. Littleton, Vesry? E. Littleton, John B. Littleton - personal property after wife's
widowhood
To daughter Mary - a lot of land beginning at the north comer of my corn field on the line between John E.
Riggin and myself
To son John - residue of property
To daughter Vesry? E. Jones - $100
Executor: wife
Witness: Daniel Staton, Joshua J. W. Shockley, Josiah T. Johnson
20 June 1891 Then came
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Amelia Parsons
6 November 1 890
To daughter Eliza Smith - $100 and household and kitchen furniture
To grandson William Tilghman - $300
To granddaughter Elinor Smith - $500
Witness: John White, W. A. Trader, Clara D. Lowe
31 July 1891 Then came
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John B. Pryor
2 July 1891
To children Eliza Malone, Matilda White, and Sarah Washburn - proceeds from sale of land. Land to be
divided as follows:
First parcel to begin at the comer of a tract sold by me to John Twigg and running to the bend of ditch that
leads through Capt. T. W. H. White's field and with said ditch to the new county road and with the ditch to
the old county road leading from the Upper Ferry to Maple Bridge and with the ferry road to the new road
and then to the north line of the land sold to John Twigg
Second parcel - beginning at the south end of W. H. H. Cooper's land and running southwesterly to the east
side of a ditch and with the ditch to the new county road to John Field's land and with Field's land to
Copper's land
Third parcel beginning at the bridge near the public school house and running northeasterly with a ditch to
the comer of Cooper's land and my own land
Executor: Thomas W. H. White Esq. of Trappe District
Witness: L. B. Price, S. T. Malone, K. A. Hitch
14 July 1891 Then came
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Sally R. Bailey wife of Benjamin Bailey
7 October 1889
To husband - all real estate for his lifetime
To brother Marcellous E. Dashiell - real estate at the death of husband for his lifetime
To nephew John Tubman Dashiell - property at the death of brother
To John Lawrence - bed and furniture
Executor: husband
Witness: Lizzie A. Crawford, Lillie M. Crawford, H. A. Crawford
11 August 1891 Then came
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Clement Ennis
June 1885
To daughter Mrs. Josephine Watts of Wilmington - $1
To wife Leah - remainder of estate "on condition that my grandson John Whalen returns and cares for me
and my wife and manage the affairs of the estate in our old age and so merit the property". Should he not
return, the widow may dispose of property in any way to suit her
Executor: wife Leah
Witness: Handy Waller, Jessie Ennis, S. J. Bounds
12 September 1891 Then came
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Abigail Fooks Layfield
23 December 1880
To Phoebe Elenor Holloway - all household and kitchen furniture for her lifetime and 2/3 balance of estate
To Lavinia Caroline daughter of Phoebe - the above after her mother's death. Also bed and furniture, one
chest called 'my sister chest', earthen ware, chairs
To Mary Jane Dean Layfield - one chest called 'my chest' and 1/3 balance of estate
Executor: G. W. Freeney
Witness: Benjamin Jackson, Martha E. Jackson
15 September 1891 Then came
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Rufus K. Truitt, merchant of the town of Salisbury
29 October 1884
That "the grave where I shall be deposited to be marked together with that of my mother's with the plainest
sort of gravestones with inscription of the time of birth and death in each case"
"It is my will, wish and desire that my family after my death shall remain together and for that reason I direct
that not one dollars worth of my real estate shall be sold. The home residence is to be the head quarters and
home of any or all my children that have no other home or may at any time get out of homes and for a home
for my wife Sally A. Truitt during her natural life or widowhood (but if she gets married again she will
vacate said residence while her husband lives). With this understanding I give Jane S. Carpenter and Edwin
Martin a home with the family as above when they desire or have no other home".
To son Charlie R. Truitt - my third interest in the store of R. K. Truitt & Sons and direct that he shall be
educated for a pharmacist and physician as soon as his age and preliminary education permit and while he is
single he shall remain at home with the family
"While R. K. Truitt and Sons shall occupy the Odd Fellows Hall building or any part of it for store or any
purpose, they will set apart a certain amount for rent, upkeep and insurance and the balance for each year
shall be equally divided between my five oldest children by my first wife Mary A. Truitt and Charles R.
Truitt, my son by my present wife and Sallie A. Truitt"
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"I desire and request my Executors ... and my wife Sallie A. Truitt to have particular oversight over the
conduct, wants and necessities of my daughter Laura V. Truitt as she and has been sorely afflicted"
That $100 be applied to repairs on the enclosure or to keeping the meeting house yard of the Old School or
Primitive Baptist Church in Salisbury
Executor: James T. S. Truitt, George W. Truitt, Charles R. Truitt
Witness: Levin Dashiell, John H. Gordy, W. C. Bradley
25 July 1891 Then came
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George Fields of Salisbury
24 February 1891
To daughter Patty Anne Tindal wife of Thomas D. Tindal - all property
Executor: daughter
Witness; N. P.Vurner, H. H. Hitch, F. M. Siemens
26 September 1891 Then came
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William Bacon
4 July 1885
To daughter Rebecca Robertson wife of Robert G. Robertson - $300 and 1/5 of balance of estate if she is
living at the time of my death; if not, then to her children
To grandchildren Lucy Wright and Maria E. Wright children of my late daughter Elizabeth M. Wright (wife
of James Wright) - $500 to each when they are of age and 1/5 of balance of estate
To daughter Mary J. Humphreys wife of Thomas Humphreys - 1/5 of balance of estate if she is living at the
time of my death; if not, then to her children
To the children of my late son John H. Bacon - 1/5 of balance of estate
To son James E. Bacon - 1/5 of balance of estate if he is living at the time of my death; if not, then to his
children
Executor: son James
Witness: Train Bounds, George T. Robertson, Thomas B. Taylor
31 October 1891 Then came
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William Leonard, colored
22 November 1890
To son John Leonard - house and lot on the east side of the county road leading from Salisbury to Laurel
To son Samuel Leonard - $50
To Jane Leonard wife of John - the feather bed "the one on which I now sleep in my room"
To daughter Annie Pollitte - $1
To son Frank Leonard - $ 1
To daughter Mary L. Leonard - $ 1
To son William Leonard - $1
To son George Leonard - $1
Executor: Leon Ernest Williams
Witness: John Parker, Alfred Phillips, John D. Truitt
14 November 1891 Then came Perrv Leonard
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Isaac Hastings
2 October 1891
To daughter Ginna Anna Mumford - all property
Witness: William Brown, A. W. Parker, _. E. Parker
1 1 November 1891 Then came
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Nancy W. Ralph
18 September 1889
To daughter Anne Mariah Poliitt - $100 to be paid out of note due me by John Cooper of Delaware dated 10
July 1884. Also bed and coverings, bureau and 1/4 of balance of estate
To son T. W. Ralph - 1/4 of balance of estate
To the children of deceased son William J. Ralph - 1/4 of balance of estate
To Anna Elliott wife of John Elliott - 1/4 of balance of estate
Witness: H. T. Poliitt, _ Ellingsworth
18 June 1890 Then came
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John Melson
28 August 1876
To brother William R. Melson - wearing apparel
To wife Mary Melson - all personal property and insurance policy. Also the fann where 1 now live in the
Sharptown District
To grandson John Edmond Nelson - farm after wife's death
To nephew Alexander Melson son of William R. Melson - farm if grandson dies without issue
To daughter Mary Rhoda Nelson wife of Edward Nelson - cow, bed and furniture, $100
To Joseph Bailey son of Isaac Bailey - $50 from interest on insurance policy
Executor: William B. Records of Sussex County
Witness: Noah C. Cooper Jr., Jonathan Benson, Samuel J. Cooper
14 December 1891 Then came James Robinson
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Elsey Leonard
28 December 1891
To daughters Mary A. Leonard and Martha A. Leonard - the house and lot where 1 now live in the
Georgetown part of Salisbury and lying west of the colored people's church
To daughter Leah J. Schenks - $50
To wife Sallie A. Leonard - her thirds in the house
Executor: daughter Mary
Witness: John D. Truitt, Elijah Trader, Rufus Leonard
13 January 1892 Then came
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George W. Riggin of Worcester County
26 October 1880
To grandson Illinois Riggin - $50
To Rhoda Ann Brittingham wife of Joseph Brittingham - $25
To the trustees of the church at Parsonsburg - my family graveyard including 30 feet from the same to the
county road. The said graveyard situated on my farm near Parsonsburg
To children John Henry Riggin. Thomas Riggin, George Riggin, William Riggin, Amanda Shockley wife of
Elijah Shockley, Denwood Riggin, Jonathan Riggin - proceeds from the sale of estate
Executor: son George
Witness: John Richardson, L. E. Mumford, _. W. Williams
14 January 1892 Then came
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Levin Cooper
6 April 1888
To eldest son Lambert Cooper - land purchased of Samuel Bratten except about 6 acres lying north of a line
running to Joseph Twilley's land. This containing 162 acres. Also all my interest in the Grange Building and
lot in the village of Barren Creek Springs
To son Severn H. Cooper - my home farm of 100 acres and the remainder of land purchased of Samuel
Bratten. Also my part in a saw mill, stock yard, and mill pond. Said mill known as the English Mill
To daughter Jennie Cooper wife of Wailes Cooper - part of tract called Gladson's Adventure and Hardship
lying on the county road leading from Riverton to the Homtown Mill and containing 62 acres. This land on
the east end of the plat
To granddaughter Emily Howard daughter (of?) L_ (Loudy?) J. Howard - $500 and the interest on $50 to
be paid yearly by Jennie Cooper and the interest on $50 to be paid yearly by Nancy Adams and the interest
on $50 to be paid yearly by Mary P. Cooper and the interest on $50 to be paid yearly by Laura D. Bennett
To daughter Nancy Adams - part of Gladson's Adventure and also all my land adjoining the Nanticoke
River of about 25 acres
To daughter Mary P. Cooper - half of land purchased of Thomas Robertson
To daughter Laura D. Bennett wife of Isaac Bennett - half of land purchased of Thomas Robertson
Executor: sons
Witness: Thomas B. Taylor, _ B. Armstrong, Luther Vincent
9 February 1892 Then came
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John Wilson
9 March 1874
To William Robert Wilson, Marcillus Allen Wilson, George Thomas Wilson, Mary Anne Wilson, Margaret
Jane Wilson, Mariah Ellen Bradley - my farm lying in Barren Creek District being the land bought of
Richard Venables and Joseph Bratten. "My son John Wesley is not to have any part of the above land, but
shall come in for an equal part of the personal property"
Executor: friend James Gillis
Witness: Samuel Robertson, Thomas Taylor, George B. Robertson
23 February 1892 Then came
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Robert Wilson
9 December 1891
To grandson Lawrence Wilson - bed and furniture and residue of estate
To Phillis Fletcher - whereas she "has nursed and cared for me during the past two months and 1 desire to
pay her for her kindness. 1 hereby give to her the right to have a home in my house purchased of Robert
Hitch provided she continues to remain with me and care for me as she has done during the remainder of my
life'-
Executor: Ebenezer Waiies
Witness: John Dashiell, John D. Truitt
1 April 1892 Then came
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Henry J. Dashiell
18 January 1892
To daughter Sallie E. Disharoon and her children viz. Woodland, Lawrence, Anie, Mary, and Joseph - $150
each on condition that the children release and discharge all claims they may have against me or my estate as
one of the Executors of their father, Joseph W. Disharoon. "Such release to discharge the securities or the
bond given by the Executors aforesaid; the note 1 hold against the said Salie E. Disharoon for six hundred
dollars with interest"
To the children of my daughter Mary Hughes viz. Louisa, Marg, and Charley - $400 each when they are of
age
To daughter Martha A. Price - house and lot in Salisbury on the east side of Division Street for her lifetime
To Jesse son of Martha Price - half of the above property at his mother's death
To son J. Louis Dashiell - my house and lot at Allen being the property 1 bought of Dr. Long. Also $1000 in
my farm on the Wicomico River. The said farm to be sold and money used to put the graveyard in good order
Executor: Jesse D. Price
Witness; John M. Dashiell, E. L. Waiies
12 April 1892 Then came
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Mary A. Nichols
14 June 1890
To Miss Eliza Denson (who now lives with me) - house and lot in Salisbury situated between Church and
Broad Street, the house fronting on Church Street and situated on the east side of the lot hereafter devised to
Mrs. Lida Evans. The lot devised to the said Denson being the same occupied by John Simms. That Eliza
must keep the house insured against fire and if the house is destroyed by fire, I direct that Robert F. Bratten
of Somerset County collect the Policy of Insurance and sell the lot. Also bed and furniture, best homemade
carpet, the mohair mahogany sofa, marble top center table
To niece Mary Thomas and widow of Rev. D. Thomas - the above after the death of Eliza Denson. Also the
house where 1 now live on the east side of Division Street in Salisbury near Humphrey's Mill Pond
To sister Rosanna Vance - all clothing and all bed clothing
To the trustees of the Asbury Methodist Episcopal Church of Salisbury - $500
To Josephus Evans - $300
To Lida Evans wife of Samuel Evans - the house and lot in Salisbury situated between Church and Broad
Street opposite the Presbyterian Church and on the east side of an alley separating the said lot from the
property of James Truitt
To Rev. William Taylor, missionary Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church - $100 to used for the
educating and teaching the faith in Africa
Executor: friend Robert F. Bratten with full power to convey the estate of my late husband Isaac Nichols
Witness: James E. Ellegood, Walter Humphreys
26 April 1892 Then came
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Jane Hayman
6 April 1891
To daughter in law Alice Hayman - all the buildings on that part of my farm adjoining Theodore Toadvine
and 5 1 acres where the said buildings stand. This for her lifetime
To the heirs of my son Alfred Hayman - the above after the death of Alice
To daughter in law Emmie Hayman - 51 acres of the land and buildings where 1 now life for her lifetime
To the heirs of my son Elsey Hayman - the above after Emmie's death
To granddaughter Clary Hayman - 50 acres of the farm where Mrs. R. Gale now lives. This for the lifetime
of her mother Emlie Gale and then to the heirs of Emlie Gale in general
To my four grandchildren Laura Gale, Oliva Gale, Asbury Gale, Sallie Gale - 2 acres each of my farm
Executor: son Alfred Hayman
Witness: William J. Riggin, Albert Fooks, H. P. Hammond
2 May 1892 Then came
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Joseph P. Twilley
25 April 1893
To son Levin O. Twilley - all land on the west side of the county road where he now lives which joins the
land of Lambert Cooper, Severn H. Cooper and others and contains about 70 acres
To daughter Lizzie A. Cooper wife of Levin Cooper - $500 to be paid by son Levin
To son Joseph Twilley - land on the east side and southeast side of the county road where 1 now live
To youngest daughter India M. Twilley - $200 to be paid by son Joseph and also a home with him
Executor: son Levin
Witness: William G. Holmes, Samuel P. Wilson, Thomas B. Taylor
16 May 1892 Then came
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Zadoc Stevenson
14 December 1881
To nephews Thomas Riggin and John Riggin - house and lot where I now live on Isabella Street in Salisbury
and the one which 1 bought of Samuel Graham fronting on Division Street
ToMary F.Adams -$100
To sister Hetty Causey - $100
To Wesley Cattam - $50
To Mary Ann Causey - $50
Executor: nephew John Riggin
Witness: J. C. Bell, Elijah J. Parsons, John D. Truitt
29 June 1892 Then came
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Harriett Pryor
23 March 1892
To daughter Mary C. Taylor - bed and furniture and coverings belonging, rocking chair, large black shawl
and bureau now in the possession of Louis Malone. Also the six dollars now due me from my daughter Sarah
Washburn and money due on account of my dower in the estate of my late husband John B. Pryor
To granddaughter Harriett Washburn - feather bed and two quilts now in the possession of Louis Malone and
one quilt not quilted at Louis Malone's
To daughter Eliza E. Malone - large cupboard
To daughter Matilda J. White - spinning wheel
Witness: Levin B. Price, William F. Allen, Thomas W. Hayman
23 May 1892 Then came Anthony Taylor
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James Farrington
14 June 1892
To wife Henrietta - my land of six acres until her death or marriage
To children Alexander, Jock, William, James, Arthur - the above after wife's widowhood and balance of
estate
Executor: wife and Samuel Conoway
Witness: Samuel Conoway, Titus Dashiell, Phenias E. Gordy
6 July 1 892 Then came
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Levin Irving PoUitt
20 April 1891
To wife Ann Maria Pollitt - house and kitchen furniture for her lifetime and then to my six daughters
To son Albert Lee Pollitt - proceeds from sale of real estate and that he have the care and oversight of my
youngest son William Ralph Pollitt
Executor: son Albert
Witness: George W. D. Waller, Ernest A. Toadvine, Joshua J. W. Shockley
23 August 1892 Then came
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Sinier Taylor
15 July 1889
To son James White - $5
To daughter Henrietta Hopkins - $5
To daughter Susan Thomas - $5
To granddaughter Victoria Taylor - $5
To great-grandson Beachum White son of Joseph White, great-grandson Roger White son of Daniel White,
great-grandson Herman Wheatley son of Henry Wheatley, and to granddaughters Octovo White and Emma
White - real estate in Trappe District
Witness: Rufus Simms, J. W. Brewington, Isaac F. Mezick
13 August 1892 Then came
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Emily Connelly
13 December 1887
To husband James E Connelly - house and lot where I now live in Salisbury on the northeast comer of East
Church Street and Isabella. This as long as long as he remains unmarried or for his lifetime and then to my
children
Witness: Maggie E. Nichols, Albert S. Johnson. John Connelly
24 August 1892 Then came
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Gatty Fooks
5 March 1878
To Ella Gertrude, Stephen Penrose, Isaac Spencer, and Jane Elizabeth children of Isaac B. and Jane Phillips
of Philadelphia - remainder of estate
Executor: Dr. Stephen Dennis
Witness: George W. W. Cooper, Handy Fooks
5 October 1892 Then came
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Louisa M. Riall of Tyaskin
19 November 1891
To son Ernest Riall - all "my maiden lands" on the west side of the county road including wharf property at
Wetipquin Creek. This being part of the land devised me by my father James Larmore
To granddaughter Grace White - house and lot on the east side of the county road leading from Wetipquin
Creek to Tyaskin Church. This house now occupied by J. H. Dorman and adjoining the lands of J. K.
Covington being part of the land devised me by my father James Larmore. Also bed and furniture, entire
parlor furniture including carpet and pictures, six silver tablespoons
To daughter Louisa A. Dougherty - bed and furniture and bed coverings, dressing bureau, wash stand and the
floor matting in the parlor
To grandson E. Ryoll White - my large traveling trunk
To daughter Delia Moore - $25, my gold spectacles, my prayer book
To great-granddaughter Minnie Riall - bureau now in my bed room downstairs
To grandson Albert H. Riall - the family Bible and horse and carriage
To daughter Laura T. White - remainder of household and kitchen furniture
Executor: Gustavus White
Witness: Franklin B. Culver, George W. Larmore, Henry Larmore
20 October 1892 Then came
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Annie M. Jester
29 March 1874
To son Wilford Jester - all my right and title, and interest in that tract of land in Tyaskin District on which
my husband, John F. Jester, and 1 now reside and which was conveyed by deed from John R. Roberts and
wife to the said John Jester. Tract containing 254 acres. This minus 19 acres belonging to Margaret Efforts
Witness: William J. Kirkpatrick, Alexander White, Alice Willing
24 January 1893 Then came Alice Turner
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Richard V. Taylor
23 February 1892
To wife Amanda E. Taylor - all real and personal estate for her single life and if she should marry; then her
thirds and land to children
To son Winder Taylor - my watch
To son Louis Taylor - my gun
To son Walter Ta>ior - my spy glasses
Executor: Thomas B. Taylor
Witness: Isaac Kennerly, Louis N. Wilson, Francis J. Kennerly
16 February 1893 Then came
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Maria Williams
27 April 1892
To husband Samuel Williams - house and lot
To children John W. Samuel Williams, Louisa F. Williams and also daughter-in-law Mary A. Dashiell - the
above house and lot after husband's death
To children and to daughter-in-law Mary A. Williams - household and personal property provided they settle
my debts with Dr. Slemons and Dr. Louis Morris
Executor: Isaac H. Dashiell
Witness: Albert Dulany, Henry White, I. H. A. Dulany
2 December 1892 Then came
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Elisha Hasting
25 November 1863
To wife Hetty - my dwelling plantation for her life or widowhood
To son Joseph Hasting - the plantation after wife's widowhood
To sons William L. Hasting, Daniel H. Hasting, Levin Hasting - the farm in Somerset County whereon
Daniel now lives
To son William -$150
To daughter Sarah E. Hasting - bed and furniture
To daughter Matilda Hasting - bed and furniture
To daughters Sarah, Matilda, and Elizabeth HoUoway wife of Billy H. Holloway - residue of personal
property
Executor: sons William and Daniel
Wimess; William W. Layfield, George W. Layfield, Levin S. H. Smith
Codicil to the above will
2 July 1887
To daughters Mary Elizabeth Holloway wife of Billy H. Holloway, Sarah wife of Robert Parsons, and
Matilda wife of Samuel Bailey - the sum given by my will to son William. Also that my four sons pay to my
daughters the sum of $50 within a year of my death
Witness: Billy R. Farlow, Levin S. H. Smith
23 March 1893 Then came Samuel Parsons and R. H. Smith who are well acquainted with the hand writing
of William Layfield and Levin Smith
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George Bradley
7 December 1889
To wife Isabella - all property
Executor: wife
Witness: E. Stanley Toadvine, George Bell
25 April 1893 Then came
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William W. Parsons
14 December 1891
To wife Mary Hester Parsons - all property
Witness: James T. Truitt, James E. Ellegood
8 June 1 893 Then came
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Peter R. Parsons
30 August 1892
To wife Elizabeth Parsons - the farm where 1 now live on the south and west side of the county road from
Pittsville to Powellsville and containing 75 acres and also the land on the north side of the county rad from
Brumbley's Mill to Powellsville. Also all the land on the east side of the county road from Pittsville to
Powellsville containing 15 acres. The land to be divided among my five children at the death of my wife.
That the farm where John White now lives to be sold for the support of wife and children
To daughters Mary E. Bailey and Marth E. Holloway - the farm where Robert Perdue, Emory Shockley and
Brittingham now live which is on the south side of the road from Brumbley's Mill to Parsonsburg and
contains 195 acres
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To daughter Julia Warren - land on the north side of the road from Brumbiey's Mill to Parsonsburg up to a
bounder known as Sassafras Comer thence to the land of Edward Warren on the north side of the mill pond
To son Daniel Henry Parsons - the fami where he now lives on the west side of the road from Pittsville to
Powellville. Also tract on the west side of the county road from Pittsville to Brumbiey's Old Mill. Also $100
towards building a new house for himself
To granddaughter Ma Baley - bed and furniture and plenty of good covering
To daughter Sarah Parsons - the farm left my wife at my wife's death
Executor: son Daniel
Witness: Joseph G. Davis. John G. Sheppard, H. James Truitt
20 June 1893 Then came
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James D. Riley
12 April 1890
To wife Hannah Riley - the farm where 1 now reside containing 101 acres and if she marries, then farm to be
divided among my children
Executor: son Jonathan H. Riley
Witness: George D. Truitt, P. Taylor Baker, James W. Parker
20 June 1893 Then came
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Robert E. Baker
17 March 1887
To daughter Amanda J. Smith - $50
To sons Samuel B. Baker and Cornelius R. Baker - all real estate provided they take good care of their
mother as long as she lives
To son Silas D. Baker - house in which he now lives and the 3 adjoining acres
To son Charles W. Baker - $1
Executor: son Lemuel Baker
Witness: Leonard Beauchamp, J. J. Fooks, G. M. Freeny
10 July 1893 Then came
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William D. Heath
13 June 1887
To son Samuel H. Heath - the home place and half of the wood land purchased of N. B. Douglas (trustee for
the estate of Isaac D. Jones) which adjoins the home place. This separated from the remainder of the Douglas
tract by a marked line run by H. N. Crawford in 1882
To daughter Williamanna A. Dickerson - $50 from son Samuel, $50 from son George
To son George Heath - land where he now resides adjoining the land given to Samuel and also adjoining the
lands of Emily Walter, Alfred Rencher and William Walters's heirs
To son Levin Heath - land already conveyed to him by deed
Executor: E. Stanley Toadvine
Witness: W. S. Moore, Wm. H. Warren. George W. Bell
28 July 1893 Then came
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Charles Truitt
24 July 1893
To wife Sallie Elizabeth Truitt - all estate
Witness: Garrison Dennis, Levi Dennis, John E. C. Lewis
22 August 1 893 Then came
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Rachel Dorman wife of Levin R. Dorman
January 1891
To daughter J. Fannie Adams wife of Isaac S. Adams - bed and furniture , parlor organ, $500
To daughter Elizabeth Dorman - bed and furniture washstand, wash bowl and pitcher, $1500
To daughter Stella W. Dorman - bed and furniture parlor carpet, washstand. sewing machine, $1500
To daughter Lillian Dorman - bed and furniture, carpet, piano, $1500
Executor: sons William E. Dorman and Levin W. Dorman
Witness: James T. Truitt, R. E. Powell, George W. D. Waller
5 September 1893 Then came
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Ezekiel Hitch
20 November 1890
To daughters Lucy Hitch and Alice Hitch - all property
Executor: daughters
Wimess: Jonathan Waller, John S. Lowe
24 October 1 893 Then came
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Jonathan Waller of Little Creek Hundred Sussex County Delaware
1 August 1891
To granddaughter Fannie E. Waller - two lots in Delmar. The first lot being the one purchased of Mary
Venables which is on the south side of East Street between Second and Front Streets. The second lot
purchased of Washington Parsons and wife which is on the eastern part of the said town of Delmar. These
two lots both in Wicomico County Maryland. Also the lot conveyed to me by Levin Hastings and wife lying
on the north side of West State Street in Dehnar and in Little Creek Hundred Sussex County. This provided
that she releases my estate from all claims she may have against it on account of the settlement of her
father's, J. J. Waller, estate by me as administrator. If Fannie dies without heir, these lots to be divided
among my seven children. Also one Singer Sewing Machine
To grandson William J. W. Waller - the lots which I purchased of Moses Hastings, Winder Hastings,
Salathiel Culver, and John Hastings lying in Little Creek Hundred Sussex County and adjoining the lands
whereon I now live, the lands of Henry Culver and others being 137 acres provided he releases my estate
from all claims
To daughter Genora H. Smith wife of John G. Smith - the homestead or farm whereon I now live including
the lands purchased of Nancy Collins containing 120 acres
That the lands purchased of Henry Smith and 31 acres known as Ralph's Tract (all in Little Creek Hundred)
be sold and the proceeds divided among my seven children.
To children Thomas W. Waller, Phillis E. Hastings, Sarah Jane Freeny, Ebby (Abby?) A. King, Rachel E.
Records, Genora H. Smith, and Jerusha A. Bailey - residue of estate
Executor: son Thomas
Witness: Edward T. West. Joshua A. Parker, Daniel H. O'Neill, Samuel E. Foskey
Codicil to above will
4 June 1892
To granddaughters Rachel Caroline Mitchell, Alpha Beatrice Hastings, Laura Ellen Hastings - all that
property devised to my beloved daughter Phillis E. Hastings, now deceased
Witness: William Meredith, J. W. Melson, William Culver
7 September 1893 Then came
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Isaiah Daughters
23 October 1893
To Mary Jane Benston, my housekeeper - all personal property and the farm where I now live on the 9"'
Election District being about 100 acres and also two houses and lots in Delmar purchased of George W
(of Thomas) and Daniel Adkins
To Guston Plummer of Sussex County - the farm adjoining the land where 1 now live known as the Killiam
Farm and the adjoining land bought of William A. Roberts and Alonzo Roberts containing in all 135 acres
Witness: Wilber Hastings, Samuel Foskey
7 November 1893 Then came
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Rachel Prior
16 June 1891
To George Prior of William - all personal property
Executor: George Prior
Witness: Daniel Staton, S. S. Perdue, G. E. Marvel
22 November 1893 Then came
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Hiram D. Parker
23 March 1893
To wife Mahala E. Parker - all estate for her lifetime
To son George T. Parker - estate after wife's death
Executor: wife
Witness: Robert Graham, George W. Bell, E. Stanley Toadvine
15 January 1894 Then came
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Mary W. Perdue
17 May 1893
To brother James B. Perdue - $200
To brother John D. Perdue - $200
To brother Asbury H. Perdue - $200
To nephew John A. Heam - SlOO
To niece Emma Sulivan wife of George Sulivan - $100
To niece Cora Wimbrow wife of Willis G. Wimbrow - bed and furniture
To nephews Elijah Shockley and Charles L. Shockley and niece Cora - residue of estate
Executor: brother James
Witness: William Laws, Asbury Hamblin
6 March 1894 Then came
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Alexander G. Toadvine
15 May 1882
To wife Ellen L. C. Toadvine - all estate for life and then to our children
Executor: wife
Witness: Levin D. Collier, Samuel A. Graham, George L. Stevens
2 April 1894 Then came E. Stanley Toadvine and James E. Ellegood who were acquainted with the hand
writing of Alexander Toadvine and Samuel Graham
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George E. Marvel
4 June 1894
To wife Margaret Lucretia Marvel - all estate
Executor: wife
Witness: John P. Owens, Sylvanies Trader, E. Stanley Toadvine
14 June 1894 Then came
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John E. Phillips of Delmar
5 July 1894
To wife Mary Ellen Phillips - the dwelling house and land and furniture
To daughter Mary Ellen Phillips - the above if wife should marry
Executor: friend Nehemiah B. Lecates and wife Mary Ellen Phillips
Witness: W. W. Meredith, W. B. Stephens
17 July 1894 Then came
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Rebecca R. Smyth of Salisbury
6 June 1890
To son Thomas Irvin Smyth - $500
To Lillie Ella daughter of my son Thomas - my silver cake basket
To Elsie L. Croll - $300
To Mamie Sterling Hoag - $500 and silver coffee pot
To daughter Rebecca Warner and her three sons - $1000
To Jamie son of Rebecca - his grandfather's gold watch
To son Samuel Smyth - silver spoons and the two pictures painted by Emma Smyth
To Rebecca daughter of Samuel - the pictures at Samuel's death and $1000 when she is of age
To James S. Warner - $500 of the above sum given to Rebecca if Rebecca dies without issue
To James S. Croll, F. Roy Croll, Spencer R. Warner - $200
"I desire my Executor ... to retain the sum of five hundred dollars to defray funeral expenses; but if, after a
decent interment, and the placing , a suitable stone to mark my grave there should remain something over, 1
desire that it shall be given to Alice daughter of William R. Smyth of St. Louis Missouri
To Wicomico Presbyterian Church of Salisbury - $100
Executor: son Samuel
Witness: George W. Todd, E. L. Wailes
4 August 1894 Then came
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Winder Morris
3 November 1881
To son Winder Morris and Mary Morris - the house and lot, in the part of Salisbury called Georgetown,
where I now reside fronting on East Church Street 66 feet and running back to Board Street
To Lucretia Toadvine wife of Pumell Toadvine - $120
To the heirs of Elizabeth Stanford - $120
To son John Morris - lot of ground fronting on East Church Street 46 feet and running to Broad Street
To son Matthew Roxburg - John's part if John dies without issue and also one lot of 68 feet fronting on East
Church Street and running back to Board Street
Executor: son Winder
Witness: C. W. Colbom, Samuel J. Wailes, John D. Truitt
1 September 1894 Then came
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Leah Brewington of Camden Ave., Salisbury
27 July 1894
To daughter Elizabeth E. Rounds - third of estate
To sons Henry S. Brewington and Clarence M. Brewington - Elizabeth's part if she should die before me
To son Clarence - $5
To Carl Ray Brewington son of Clarence - third of estate to be invested by his father
To son Henry Scott Brewington - third of estate
Executor: Ernest Walton Brewington
Witness: Cleste B. Brewington, Martha A. Gillis
3 1 August 1 894 Then came
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Alice Stambury wife of Thomas
28 January 1890
To children and grandchildren: sons George Stambury, Albert M. Stambury, Julius F. Stambury, James A.
Stambury, Granville Stambury; daughters Sally J. Waller wife of William K. Waller and Delia F. Dougherty
wife of George W. Dougherty and my two sons William F. Stambury and John W. Stambury and my
daughters Mary A. Furbush wife of Franklin Furbush and Nelia C. Stambury my granddaughter - life
insurance policy in the Washington Life Insurance Company in the city of New York and the policy in the
Etna Life Insurance Company of Stanford
Executor: son James A. Stambury
Witness: Robert Mitchell, William Douglas
3 October 1894 Then came
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Rubin S. Elliott
25 February 1895
To son George W. Elliott - all personal property and the farm where I now live containing 70 acres provided
he pay the remainder of the purchase price. If he refuses the land to be sold and the balance divided among
my eight children
To son James B. Elliott -$10
To son Rubin Elliott -SIO
To son Thomas Elliott - $5
To Elen S. Elliott - $20
To Marias B. Elliott - $2
To daughters Roxana J. Elliott and Lillie M. Elliott - bed and furniture each
Executor: son George
Witness: George M. Maddox, Samuel B. Bailey, Elijah Baily
30 March 1895 Then came
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Thomas S. Heam
17 April 1895
To wife Eliza J. Heam - all property
Executor: wife
Witness: George W. Bell, Laura E. Heam, Levinia Heam
23 April 1895 Then came
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Alexander Robertson of Sharptown
5 March 1895
To son Jethro Robertson - that land, being part of Addition To Venture and part of Long Delay, beginning ai
Enoch Quinton's Land and running with the old public to the new public road and thence with the new road
to the private road leading to the Ridgefield Landing and then to Thomas L. Twiford's land.
To son Henry Robertson - all that tract, being part of Addition To Venture, beginning at a marked pine and
thence running the middle road to the land of William L. Brown and then to Thomas Twiford's land
To wife Maria J. Robertson - half interest in tract at the junction of the new public road with the old road
near the residence of Enoch J. Quinton. Also house in Sharptown for lifetime
To son Ira Robertson - the other half of the above tract given to my wife
To daughter Elizzie A. Spicer of Laurel Delaware - the house in Sharptown after wife's death
Executor: sons Jethro and Henry
Witness: William Riggin, Jonathan Burnett
24 April 1895 Then came
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Sallie Matthews wife of William H. Matthews
3 December 1886
To son John W. Matthews - house and lot on the south side of the county road leading from Salisbury to
Snow Hill being the same property I purchased of Peter Tilghman
To son Sydney P. Matthews - the farm where 1 now live located on the north side of the county road leading
from Salisbury to Snow Hill being the same property I purchased of James Matthews
To Sanford D. Matthews - $200 to be paid by son Sydney
To daughters Mary E. Matthews, Rosa B. and Olivia E. Matthews - $100 each to be paid by son Sydney
To husband William - a home and maintenance on the said farm
To grandson Alfred Horsey - $25
Executor: sons John and Sydney
Witness: E. L. Wailes, John M. Dashiell
25 April 1895 Then came
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12 August 1892
To John W. Sensing of Philadelphia - $1
To daughter Amelia B. Games wife of John W. Games - $1
To wife Unice Bensing - all estate for her lifetime
To children of daughter Amelia, viz. Herbert, Rachel, Charles, Howard, John, Marian, and E. May -
proceeds from the sale of house and lot after the death or marriage of my wife
Executor: Daniel Foskey
Witness: Walter B. Stephens, John C. Radish
13 May 1895 Then came
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Charlotte W, Parker
2 August 1892
To grandson Elisha P. Parker - feather bed and $500
To grandson William C. Parker - feather bed and $500
To grandson Joseph H. Parker - feather bed and $500
To granddaughter Ester E. Parker "now married one Ernest Heam" - chinaware that I bought of my aunt
Amelia Parsons and $500
To granddaughter Lucy Jane Parker - my organ and $500
To granddaughter Charlotte E. Parker - $1000
To son Clayton C. Parker - $1000 and residue of estate
Executor: son Clayton
Witness: Benjamin H. Parker, Sylvanus J. Tilghman, Eugene M. Oliphant
2 1 May 1 895 Then came
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Rosetta Hardy of Tyaskin District
24 December 1886
To children Mary H. Nutter, Louisa Wallace, Albert Hardy, Alverta Nutter, Warce C. Hardy, Irene Hardy,
Marvin Hardy - house and lot where I now reside and all the furniture belonging, canoe called Little Rosa
To husband Samuel - a home and to manage the house and lot and the balance of the property; but that he
shall not have the power to sell property
Witness: Robert H. Elsey, James Laws, William F. Backley
11 June 1895 Then came
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Matthew Conley of Sharptown
llJuly 1882
To wife Elizabeth - house and lot where I now live known as Island Eyr and containing 26 acres. Also
personal property
To daughter Mary Walker wife of Thomas W. Walker - the above house and lot after wife's death
To daughter Amanda Bailey wife of Levin Bailey - $25
To granddaughter Lena T. Gravener - $25 when she is of age
Executor: Thomas Walker
Witness: Thomas J. Twilley, William S. Marshall, Albert W. Robinson
30 July 1895 Then came
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Leah Hooper
10 April 1883
To daughter Margaret A. Humphreys wife of Lafayette Humphreys - $500
To sons John B. Hooper and William F. Hooper - the above $500 if Margaret dies without issue and also
residue of estate
Executor: son William
Witness: Robert E. Powell, S. E. Gordy, E. Stanley Toadvine
26 September 1 895 Then came
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Lydia B. Collins
19 October 1895
To daughter in law Harriett E. Collins - house and lot where I now live in Parsons District containing 'A
acres. Also the stock of store goods in the storehouse, wagon and horse
To Horatio Collins (husband of Harriett) - house and lot after Harriett's death
Witness: Robert A. Lowe, John D. Truitt, Josiah Gordy
12 November 1895 Then came
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Thomas Jones
18 September 1890
To Samuel H. Twigg - silver watch and double barrel shot gun
To Maud Twigg - residue of estate
Executor: friend Maud Twigg
Witness: John H. Gordy, Sylvanus Trader
23 December 1895 Then came
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Joseph R. Collins
2 December 1892
To wife Mary Collins - house and lot on the north side of Chestnut Street in Salisbury for her lifetime
To son Joseph M. Collins and daughter Laura A. Parsons wife of Isaac H. Parsons - the above house and lot
after wife's death
To daughter Laura Parsons - house and lot on William Street where 1 now reside and to her children at her
death
To son Joseph - the farm on the west side of Dagsbury Road purchased of John B. Collins and containing
1 16 acres and land on the east side of Dagsbury Road binding on the Delaware line which I purchased of
Nancy Cordry and containing 70 acres
To Mary J. King wife of Benjamin S. King - $180 to be paid by son Joseph
To son Samuel Q. Collins - $20 to be paid by son Joseph
Executor: son Joseph and Jay Williams
Witness: William M. Mumford, R. D. Ellegood, John M. Dashiell
26 December 1895 Then came
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George Waller
18 November 1890
To son Jonathan Waller - the mortgage 1 hold against him for $2500 on the farm where he now lives
To son James Waller - the mortgage I hold against him for $2500 on the farm where he now lives
To son George D. Waller - the note 1 hold against him for $2500 for his part of the farm where he now lives
To son Richard Waller - the note against him for $2500 for his part of the farm where he now lives
To daughter Martha Waller and Adeline wife of Charles E. Williams - the Kennerly Farm
To daughter Julia D. Waller - the farm in Trappe District
To wife Julia Ann Waller - all real estate in Salisbury and the Fowler Farm at Spring Hill
To daughter Adeline - the house and lot in California after wife's death
To Martha - 2/3 of the Hooper House after wife's death
To Julia - 1/3 of the Hooper house after wife's death
To four sons - after wife's death, house where I now reside and the houses and lots bounded by Division
Street Extended, Parsons Cemetery and Baltimore and Eastern Shore Rail Road. Also the Fowler Farm
Witness: William Leonard, J. J. Morris, John S. Fulton
13 March 1896 Then came
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William Taylor
13 June 1893
To wife Elizabeth Taylor - all estate for her lifetime
To Marion S. Marvell (son of my wife's daughter Aureiia P. Marveil "commonly known as Martha Marvell)
- estate after wife's death
Witness: George W, Bell, Cora Hayman, Fannie Marvel
24 March 1896 Then came
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Mary A. Pollitt
10 July 1893
To son Joshua D. Pollitt -$1
To grandson Gaston (Craston?) A. Pollitt - farm in Worcester County "which 1 heired by the death of my
father James Colborne", also house and lot in that part of Salisbury called Camden which was willed to me
by my husband William Pollitt; also house and lot on Poplar Avenue in Salisbury adjoining a lot of Dr. Levin
D. Collins on the north side and adjoining a lot of Wesley Williams on the east and the lot of Joseph Hearn
on the south; also house and lot which I inherited by the death of my mother Shady Colboum; also a piece of
land adjoining the same on the south which was will to me by my husband William Pollitt
To granddaughter Edny Pollitt - the above if her brother dies without issue
Executor: Thomas H. Williams, Samuel Gordy, Irving Powell, John Alfred Hearn (and that one of them be
appointed guardian to my grandson)
Witness: E. A. Toadvine, D. J. Holloway, John D. Truitt
31 March 1896 Then came
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Margaret Leonard
2 April 1896
To husband George W. Leonard of C. - house and lot where I now live in Salisbury adjoining the A. M. C. P.
church lot on the east
Witness: John D. Truitt, Richard Deshiell (Dashiell), John H. Smith
21 April 1896 Then came
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Ebenezer L. Wailes of Salisbury
24 October 1883
To wife Annie T. Wailes - all estate
Executor: wife
Witness: Thomas Perry, Stephen Toadvine, Daniel J. Holloway
8 May 1896 Then came
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Sallie Parker
4 April 1896
To brother Thomas Parker of A. - all property consisting of household and kitchen furniture and clothing
Witness: Emma White, F. M. Slemons
30 May 1896 Then came
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John C. Birckhead
20 February 1889
To daughter-in-law wife of my son James - V2 acre of land at the southwest comer of my farm
To son-in-law Edward Jones husband of my daughter Hester - acre of land "joining that devised to Mary"
where the said Edward now lives
To son John - west side of my farm joining Adison Wilson and running within 40 yards of my dwelling
being about 30 acres
To son Noah - the homestead where 1 now live that is to say the east field adjoining Honey Harcum's being
about 35 acres
To daughter Sarah Ellen - acre joining son John's portion on the county road at the north portion of the farm
To daughter Emily Virginia - acre joining Sarah Ellen's
To daughter Ann - acre joining that of Emily Virginia
To son Lenox - 4 acres on the south end of my farm joining Jesse Davis, Adison Wilson, and my sons
Noah's and John's portions
Executor: son John
Witness: Thomas J. Turpin, John W. Adkins, Oran A. Nelson
4 August 1 896 Then came
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William T. Disharoon
1 July 1896
To Powellville Methodist Protestant Church - $250
To wife Hetty A. Disharoon and children: Levin B. Disharoon, Charles R. Disharoon, William A. Disharoon,
Ella P. Godfrey. Mary A. Pennewell, Henry W. Disharoon, and Jane A. Bailey - balance of estate
Executor: son Charles
Witness: King V. White, John W. Davis, William T. Harman
8 August 1896 Then came
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Joshua H. Marvil of Laurel, Sussex County Delaware
24 January 1893
To brother James A. Marvil - the monies he owes me and "that all evidence of his indebtedness to me shall
be marked satisfied canceled and destroyed"
To "my faithful nephew" Harvey F. Marvil - his debts owed to me
To nephews Joseph Marvil and Lorenzo W. Marvil - $500 each
To my grand-nephew Joshua H. son of Lorenzo Marvil - $500
To housekeeper Oleoria Legates - $200
To son Joshua Dallas Marvil and grandson Joshua D.(H.?) Marvil - household furniture shares of my stock
in the First National Bank of Seaford
To grandson Joshua H. Marvil - real estate in the square lying east of West Street in the town of Laurel that
is to say bounded by West Street, Sixth Street, the Delaware Railroad, and the Methodist Protestant
Graveyard; excepting the ground on which my office stands, and the office building, and my family burial
lot. Also the granaries, stables, bams, including my interest in the mill and factory of N. Ward & Co.
To son Joshua Dallas Marvil - real estate on the westside of West Street in Laurel and south of the Laurel
River and bounded by West Street and the land of William W. Dashiell, Maria Bacon and others with all the
dwellings, bams, granaries and other buildings thereon with my office and office furniture provided that my
son pay to my nephew Harvey H. Marvil 1/5 of the profits of the mill and basket and crate manufacturing for
a term of eight years and that he pay to my son Joseph the sum of $33 per month for Joseph' single life
Executor: son Joshua and nephew Harvey
Witness: Henry Baker, Daniel J. Fooks, Joseph S. Pusey
17 April 1895 Then came
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Peter Freeny
9 January 1894
To wife Elizabeth - all property including one cupboard, one sideboard, four odd chairs, three carpets, three
beds, four plows, one cross cut saw, one hand saw, one drawing knife, three pitch forks, three weeding hoes,
one com sheller, one scythe, one clock, one looking glass
Executor: wife
Witness: Jehu T. Parsons. Elijah J. Parsons, G. W. D. Waller
15 September 1896 Then came
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Hettie N. Wright
19 May 1892^
That all estate be sold "and after the payment of all my just debts, costs of administration, and funeral
charges, including a plain stone over my remains; I also direct that good clothing be my burial suit even if
they be plain, and the balance of my estate I direct shall be divided ... among my heirs at law"
Executor: Thomas B. Taylor
Witness: Levin Wilson, Robert F. Bratten
22 October 1896 Then came
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John H. Ruark
11 October 1894
To brother William M. Ruark, sister Mary Goslee wife of Thomas Goslee, and my niece Emma Waller - the
farm where 1 now live
To Miss Annie M. Goslee - my house and lot in Salisbury lying on the east side of Camden and all
household and kitchen furniture
To Henry R. Porter and George P. Porter children of Jefferson - my house and lot at the death of Annie
Goslee
To Florence Porter wife of Jefferson Porter - my organ
To Annie Waller- $100
Executor: brother William
Witness: H. Laird Todd, S. Somers Gunby, Dean W. Perdue
19 October 1896 Then came
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John Selby Goslee
17 July 1896
To children John W. Goslee, Sidney P. Goslee Thomas W. Goslee, Franklin Grant Goslee, Margaret
Virginia wife of Joseph Waller, Emily widow of Thomas B. Freeny, Julia wife of William George Ellis.
Martha Ellen wife of George A. Wolford. Elizabeth Jane wife of Noah Majors, Ruth wife of Alexander W.
Goslee, Lily E. wife of James Dikes, and Ina Maude wife of John Killiam - proceeds from sale of all estate;
except 1/4 acre of the farm which is to be set apart as a graveyard
Executor: son Franklin
Witness: James Vincent, Samuel E. Foskey
10 November 1896 Then came
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F:373
James Conner (now temporarily residing in Selbyville Delaware)
20 August 1896
To oldest daughter Jennie Crockett and son George Conner (now of New York) and second daughter Ella
May Parks - $1 each
To Jay Williams of Salisbury - rest and residue of estate so that he may collect the rents, issues, profits and
interest and income of the same and pay debts and manage the estate and act as guardian to my youngest
children. The monies to be held in trust until my youngest living child is of age
To wife Mary J. Conner and children Walter, Martha, Clarence, Florence, James - income from estate.
That "Martha and Florence shall receive their said share of said income for their maintenance only so long as
they shall remain single; and no longer; and provided further that Martha and Florence are to have money
taken from the principal ... to prepare them thoroughly for teaching school and cloth them in the meantime
while being so prepared to teach"
"Should it be known that any of my sons should visit or frequent the barrooms or the saloons or take to the
use of tobacco, or do any other disreputable things they shall be entirely cut off from any claim on my estate"
"My chief aim and object is to protect the young until they are able to do for themselves and I do hope and
pray that no Court of Justice shall ... try a suit to break this will on any legal technicality or mistake"
Executor: Jay Williams
Witness: Isaiah J. Erasure, Kendall M. Wiley, Harley K. McCabe
19 September 1896 Then came
F:378
John W. Twilley
3 January 1896
To wife Leah C. Twilley - all personal estate. Also my home farm lying in Quantico District for her lifetime
To sons Robert Twilley and Levin R. Twilley - the above farm after wife's death
To daughters Rebecca E. Allen, Virginia A. Wilson, Mary R. E. Heam, and Roxanna Riggin - $22 each to be
paid by each of my sons
To sons Samuel C. Twilley, John L. Twilley, William F. Twilley, George W. Twilley, and Francis J. Twilley
- land in Trappe District known as the Collins Farm
Executor: wife
Witness: E. Stanley Toadvine, George W. Bell
12 January 1897 Then came
F:379
Amanda E. Dennis of Suffolk Virginia
24 April 1886
To children Margaret A. Dennis, Gertrude E. Whaley, Charles M. Dennis, Samuel M. Dennis - my farm near
Salisbury which was purchased by me from Samuel A. Graham, trustee. This is be held (until the youngest
child is of age) by the named children for the benefit of themselves and my other children Dora Dennis,
Claud Dennis, William Dennis and Paul Dennis
Witness: John H. Wright, Lycurgus Rose
23 January 1897 Then came
F:381
Warren J. Hastings
5 January 1897
To wife Clara A. Hastings - house and lot where I now live located on Broad Street in Salisbury and all
personal property and my carpenters tools
To daughter Louisa Yokaum - $1
Witness: John D. Truitt, Alexander Aikman, William S. Boston
27 January 1897 Then came
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F:382
George W. Robertson
13 March 1895
"having heretofore made ample provisions for, or arrangements with my sons Geo. H. Robertson and Jas. W.
F. Robertson, I therefore do not give them anything by this will"
To daughter Charlotte Larmor wife of A. H. D. Larmor - residue of the Caleb Hughes Farm in Tyaskin
District not heretofore sold and conveyed by me. A part having been sold to Henry Toadvine and a part to
Jas. W. F. Robertson
To daughter Laura Harris - $150 to be paid by daughter Charlotte, $350 to be paid by Martha While
To Martha J. White wife of Adolphus J. White - the residue of the Mary Jones Farm which was not
heretofore conveyed or sold by me. Parts having been sold to Jas. M. Roberts and Geo. H. Robertson and
Jas. W. F. Robertson
To wife Ellen S. Robertson - residue of my real estate
To "my three children by my said wife" Elmer H. Robertson, Norah (Nora) E. Robertson, Vernon W.
Robertson - residue of real estate after wife's death and residue of estate
Executor: Benjamin R. Dashiell, James E. EUegood
Witness: Albert E. Mezick, W. J. Wailes
14 February 1897 Then came
F:383
Sallie A. Wailes
8 September 1896
To husband William J. Wailes and daughter Julia F. Wailes and son William K. W. Wailes - proceeds from
sale of personal estate and house and lot near Wetipquin Creek in Tyaskin which 1 inherited from my aunt
Mary W. Turner. Also a square of land adjoining where 1 now live and adjoining the north comer of
Margaret E. Robertson's land together with a right of way to said square of land running from the county
road leading from Jones M. E. Church to Roaring Point. This square of land to be set aside for a family
graveyard
To husband William - house and lot where I now live containing 3 acres being part of tract called Oregon
and my swamp and marsh land which 1 bought of E. Stanley Toadom (Toadvine?) trustee
To children - the above after husband's death
Executor: husband
Witness: John S. Robertson, Henry W. Robertson
24 February 1 897 Then came
F:385
John W. Elliott of Sussex County Delaware
27 March 1896
To wife Priscilla C. Elliott - all household goods and kitchen furniture and the use and income of the house
and lot where I now live for her lifetime or widowhood
To son Frazier G. Elliott - the store house and lot in Delmar that he now occupies. The line beginning at
Grove Street and running with the divisional wall to William S. Marvel's land. Also the house and lot where
1 now live after the death or marriage of my wife. "1 hereby except the right of way on the east side and south
end of said store house to and from the store house now occupied by Frank E. Lynch to him the said Frazier"
To daughter Adallia B. Gordy - $200 to be paid to her by my son Frazier. Also a certain tract in Little Creek
Hundred where Joseph Lecates now lives being the land bought of Levin Lecates, Walston Lecates and
Greensbury Lecates containing about 147 acres
To son Archelaus B. Elliott - tract in Little Creek Hundred that I (bought?) of Jonathan J. B. Fooks and
containing 200 acres
(Cont.)
63
To son Charles E. Elliott - the store house and lot in Delmar now occupied by Frank E. Lynch. Also tract in
Wicomico being all the land I accepted and bought of the intestate lands of my father Benjamin Elliott
To son Roland F. Elliott - tract in Little Creek Hundred of 1 10 acres which I bought of Benjamin Elliott and
52 acres bought of Winder Hastings and 'A of the tract of land in said hundred owned by James Morris and
my self which we bought of William A. Morris. Also apiece of land in said Hundred near Delmar that 1
bought of Ebenezer Riggin
Executor: son Frazier
Witness: James H. Tyre, Jackson L. Ellis, James T. Wilson
17 March 1897 Then came
F:389
Isabella Taylor
20 October 1896
To son Jacob Taylor - parcel of 50 acres in Quantico District on the east side of the county road leading from
Quantico to Green Hill being Vz mile north of of Green Hill Creek where the road leading from Quantico to
Whitehaven crosses said creek being the same place where I and my husband James Taylor lived during his
lifetime and at the time of his death
To daughter Hannah A. Ross - $200 to be paid by son Jacob
To grandson Lewood Insley - S50 to be paid by son Jacob
Executor: son Jacob
Witness; William H. N. Dashiell, A. K. Soloway
17 March 1897 Then came
F:390
Priscilla J. Dunn
12 July 1894
To eldest son Horris W. Dunn - house and land where I now live
To daughters Margaret Elizabeth Insley, Laura Jane Larmore, Susan Emily Willing and Madora Jane
Jackson; and to the heirs of John R. Larmore and Hester Ann Larmore and the heirs of William J. Messick
and Mary P. Messick (deceased daughter) - the sum of $8 to be paid by son
Executor: Francis A. Willing
Witness: William H. Heath, John S. Robertson, George D. Heath
24 March 1897 Then came
F:391
Henry T. Hursh of Sharptown
8 April 1897
To Frances Ellen Griffith wife of Albert C. Griffith - all estate
Executor: Levin T. Cooper
Witness: James Robinson, Jonathan P. Burnett
8 May 1 897 Then came
F:393
Henry Waller ("a colored man")
26 August 1893
To son Joseph Waller - house and lot where I now live on the west side of the county road from Salisbury to
Spring Hill
Toson John Waller -$16
To daughter Ellen Waller - $5 and one bed
To son Peter Waller - $5 and one clock
(Cont.)
64
To son Frank Waller - $5 and one bed
To son Alfred Waller -$10
To daughter Charlotte Waller - one bed
To daughter Nancy Waller $5 and one bed
To grandson John Waller - my gun
Executor: son Joseph
Witness: William J. Riggin, D. J. Staton, S. W. Dykes
29 May 1897 Then came
F:394
Isaac N. Jackson of Washington D. C.
1 5 February 1 890
To wife Fannie H. Jackson - ail estate
Executor: wife
Witness: W. E. Edmunston, Charles E. VanArsdale, George Francis Williams
17 June 1897 Then came
F:396
William D. Records fonnerly of Delaware but now a resident of Salisbury
10 October 1888
To wife Nancy W. Records - personal estate, except horse and carriage and one desk. Also all the real estate
in Salisbury for her lifetime
To son John B. Records - the store house and lot and the house and lot adjoining the land of Edward Goslee
in Salisbury. This after wife's death. Also the Robert Prettyman Farm and the horse and carriage
To Willard S. Records - two houses and lots, one of them being where he now lives and the other adjoining.
Also the fami known as the Daniel Melson farm in Sussex County
To daughter Mary Jane Spicer wife of Edward W. Spicer - house and lot adjoining the house and lot
bequeathed to John and house and lot on the west side of the road leading from Salisbury to Berlin adjoining
the lands of William Jackson and others the same being on the north end of an alley which I have opened
between me and Oscar Freeney. Also the farm called the Ephraim Pusey farm in Sussex County
To son Thomas W. Records - fann known as the Stephen Melson farm in Sussex County
To son George W. Records - $1000 minus the obligations 1 hold against him
That Joseph P. Smith be released of all liabilities I have against except one which appears of record assigned
by me to James T. Smith
Executor: sons
Witness: Hiram S. Short, Robert J. Davidson, John L. Thompson
Codicil to the above will
8 November 1894
To the children of Mary J. Spicer (now deceased) - all property that would have passed to the said Mary
To the children of Willard S. Records (now deceased) - the property that would have passed to Willard to
now be enjoyed by his widow and then passed to his children
Witness: Charles R. Jones, George C. Calhoun, John L. Thompson
24 June 1897 Then came
F:399
Isabella Humphreys widow of Dr. Cathell Humphreys late of Salisbury
no date
To daughter Belle H. Jones - all promissary notes or other debts owed me, all household and kitchen
furniture and garden tools. Also all houses and land
Witness: R. E. Powell, T. E. HoUoway, William J. White
6 July 1897 Then came
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F:400
Hezekiah Hastings
19 September 1895
To wife Mary E. Hastings - all personal property and that part of my home farm where I now dwell which is
on the east side of the new county road leading from the town of Delmar to George W. Leonard's mills. This
for her lifetime
To son Elijah W. Hastings - the above after wife's death
To daughter Kathleen Hastings - $400 to be paid by son Elijah
To daughter Edith M. Hastings - all the part of the old homestead farm that formerly belonged to my father
Asbury Hastings situated about one mile west of Delmar adjoining the land of Samuel Hastings, William
Sermon, Lavinia Sheppard, Elijah Freeney
To daughter Martha E. Hastings - $200 to be paid by daughter Edith. Also lot of ground at the northeast
comer of Fourth and East Elizabeth Streets in Delmar bounded on the north by a private road known as
Dave's Road and on the east by a lot owned by W. A. C. Williams
To daughter Kathleen Hastings - land about 'A mile south of Delmar adjoining the land of Elijah Freeney and
William Sermon and bounded on the northeast by the aforesaid new county road and containing 37 acres
To daughter Lavinia E. Parsons wife of John G. Parsons - $5 and no more
Executor: wife and son
Witness: Theodore A. Veasey, Philip C. Heam, Samuel E. Foskey
6 July 1897 Then came
F:402
Virginia Emily Mitchell of Salisbury
1 1 December 1 895
To step-daughter Minnie A. Mitchell - house and lot in that part of Salisbury called California. Also my
diamond finger ring and balance of jewelry and all clothing and residue of personal estate
To husband William Wesley Mitchell - $1600
To niece Olevia Everishman? - my gold watch and chain with charms which includes a five dollar gold
piece, my gold breast pin, gold finger ring
Executor: husband
Witness: Thomas H. Mitchell, William J, Staton, Gustavus W. White
7 July 1897 Then came
F:404
Margaret C. Smith wife of Albert Smith
17 October 1882
To daughter Leah Caroline Smith - all property including the house and lot on Church Street in Salisbury
Executor: daughter
Witness: E. Stanley Toadvine, Daniel J. HoUoway, William C. King
8 July 1897 Then came E. Stanley Toadvine. Daniel J. Holloway being dead and William C. King a non-
resident of Maryland. Then came Charles Holland and Levin Dorman and made oath to the handwriting of
Daniel J. Holloway and William C. King
F:405
William S. Parsons
19 July 1897
To son Marion Parsons - $500
To sons Marion Parsons, J. Augustus Parsons, George P. Parsons - balance of estate
Executor: son Marion and brother Milton A. Parsons and friend L. Sydney Bell
Witness: George W. Bell, F. Marion Slemons
27 July 1897 Then came
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F:407
Levin B. Price
25 May 1897
To wife Mary J. Price - ail estate consisting of the Graham Farm, the Stewart Lot, Cherry Grove Lot, and
house and lot where I now live in Allen, That she should not commit any waste of the timber land
To children F. F. Price, Isaac. L. Price, L. B. Price Jr., Nannie White and Kate E. Price - the above at wife's
death or marriage
Executor: son Isaac and wife
Witness: Peter A. Malone, George T. Malone, S. F. Malone
20 August 1897 Then came
F:409
Peter P. Truitt
7 August 1897
To Isaac M. Truitt "my eldest son now living" - my farm down to the line running from Lemuel Duncan's
land to the land of Jesse H. Bratten. The line to be established by Lemuel Duncan and Rufus Truitt at a place
they think most proper and to contain 100 acres
To son Daniel J. Truitt - the remainder of the above farm lying to the west and south of that given Isaac and
running to the New Hope Mill Pond. "My said son Daniel being ... of unsound mind, 1 do hereby appoint
my son Isaac M. Truitt as his continued guardian"
To grandson John H. Truitt - that part of tract called Golden Valley lying on the east side of the county road
leading from Cobbs Hill to New Hope and part of a tract on the same road called Hampton and also that
Golden Valley lying east of a line running south from the east comer of George Webb's stables to the land of
Lemuel B. Duncan up to a cross fence that divides that tract from the farm where I now live called Turkev
Ridge and containing 40 acres
To wife Mary E. Truitt - the farm where I now live called Turkev Ridge for her lifetime and then to grandson
John H. Truitt
To grandchildren Martha E. and Clarence M. Davis - $10 each
Executor: Lemuel Duncan
Witness: Lemuel B. Duncan, Milby W. Davis, James W. Parker, Rufus Truitt
31 August 1897 Then came
F:411
William P. Morris
9 June 1897
To son Jacob A. Morris - house and lot of 20 acres lying on the south of my apple orchard and on the east
side of the county road leading from Fruitland
To my other seven children Sallie E. Lankford (her children to have her share), Mary A. Morris, John E.
Morris, Emlie C. Morris, Nellie E. Coats, Rosie W. Cox. Susan J. Lanford - balance of real estate
Executor: son John
Witness: William J. Riggin, James H. Cathell, Harry Smith
6 September 1 897 Then came
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F:412
John W. Ryall
20 March 1897
To daughter Emma V. Thomas wife of John Thomas - all personal property. Also the land in Trappe Election
District beginning at the northeast comer of the land of Mary Wilson on the line known as Wesley
Toadvine's; thence with the north side of side lot of Mary Wilson to a ditch on the line of Mary Wilson and
Mary Ryall and with the ditch and the land of Sally A. Thomas and then a straight line to the railroad
To daughter Sally Thomas - land on the south of the above line
To children William J. Ryall. Henry W. Ryall. Betsy E. Williams wife of Charles Williams, Mary C. Wilson
wife of Washington Wilson, Robert E. Ryall, and Sara Jane Williams wife of James Williams - $20 each
To Samuel Ackworth - $2 and the feather bed that belonged to his mother
Witness: James E. Ellegood, Harry L. Brewington
29 November 1897 Then came
F:413
Eli Robinson
4 October 1894
To son John E. Robinson - 4 acres where his house now stands adjoining the land of Mrs. Elenor Hurt
To daughter Julia Marine - 4 acres where her house now stands
To son Willis B. Robinson - residue of estate
To grandchildren Erwin R. Walker and Mary Walker children of my deceased daughter Mary Walker and her
husband John J. Walker - $50 each
Executor: son Willis
Witness: Albert W. Robinson, John R. Twilley, James Robinson
29 December 1897 Then came
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Index To f
Ackworlh
Hlizabeth McBridc* 37
Samuel h
Isaac S. 52
J Fannie 32
Mary F. 47
Nancy 45
Ann Mariali 32
Daniel 53
Ernest Mitchell 32
Garrettson 13
J. M32
John W 60
King L. White 32
Lambert 7
Mary 32
Rider* 32
A 33
Alexander 62
Sarah Jane 33
Albert James 7
Francis Percy 7
Grace Whittington 7
Joseph 7
Lindley 7
Mary Whittington 7
Mary* 7
Raymond 7
Rebecca E. 62
Verona 7
William F 7
William F 47
Clemintine 16
Gillis* 16
Henry 2
James 16
Martha 2. 16
'j B 12
J, B 17
James 36
William F 57
Eleanor 23
Granville 23
Harry 23
James E. 43
John 38
John H 43
John L 23
L_23
Maria 60
Samuel 23
William* 43
Baley
Ballard
Banks
Barkley
Bartley
Beach
Daniel 1 1
Elijah 1 1
Jesse 1 1
Albert 4, 36
Alison 35
Amanda 57
Benjamin 42
Elijah 55
Emma 35
James 39
Jane A 60
Jerusha A 52
Jonathan 39
Joseph 39, 44
Josiah* 39
Levin 57
Margaret 39
Mary E. 50
Mitilda50
Ozias* 35
Rachel 39
Sally R* 42
Samuel 23, 50
Samuel B 55
Theadore 13
Thomas 23, 36
Thomas J 24
Thomas J D 24
John 31
Julia31
Charles 51
Cornelius 51
Henry 60
Lemuel 51
P, Taylor 5 1
Robert E. 51
Robert* 51
Samuel B 5 1
Silas 51
Ma_ 51
Drucella40
Elizabeth Ellen 18
Ephraim 26
Margaret 2
Mean 2
Thomas 2
Alfred 41
Barkley 41
Jessie 41
Robert 41
Virginia 33
Margaret 39
69
Beachamp
Tl
Beauchamp
Leonard 51
George 5. 24, 50
George W 53, 59
George W. 66
George W^ 51,55,62
J. C. 47
Jacob* 1
L, Sydney 66
Mariah 1
Biddy 5
Elisha*21
Elizabeth 5
Ephraim 8
Gillis 13
Isaac 31, 45
Jonathan 18
Jonathan Benson 8
Joshua 14
Laura 45
Mary Jane 21
Priscilla* 18
Sarah 8, 10
Washington 18
William 11, 18
JohnW* 56
Unice 56
Brady
Albert 13
Clara 13
George 9, 25
James 1 1
John 1 1
Marcellus 1 1
S.J, 42
Train 19.20,37,43
Windsor 20
Sarah 2 1
B, S, 24
Benjamin 31
Elisha21
Flavins 9
George* 50
Isabella 50
J, Wesley 36
JohnWinfield31
Levin 10
Margaret 10
Richard 10
Turpin 19
W. C. 43
Eleanor Woolford 25
George Ashby Handy 25
Nellie Woolford 25
Jonathan* 8
Sabra 8
Sabra* 35
Mary Jane 53
Ann 60
Emily Virginia 60
James 60
John 60
John C * 60
Lenox 60
Noah 60
Sarah Ellen 60
William 1, 22
Benjamin 22
Benjamin T. 22
John Thomas 22
Susan* 22
William M. 22
Ezra 14
W, S. 37
William 62
Joseph 14
Edith 17
Elizabeth 17
Jesse 13
Jesse H 67
Joseph 10,45
Joseph Gancey 1 7
Joseph* 17
Linda Marian 17
Marianna 17
Robert 8, 61
Robert F. 46
Robert Franklin 17
Samuel 39, 45
Susan Ann 17
Laura 29
Brewington
J W, 48
Carl Ray 55
Clarence 14
Clarence M 55
Cleste B 55
Ernest Walton 55
Harry L 68
Henry 10
Henry S 55
Henry Scott 55
James 34
Leah* 55
Lucy 34
70
Brewington
Margarite E 34
Margarite* 34
Nettie 34
Sarah 37
Scott 3
W. L 18
William t 16
Britlingliam
_ ■'iO
Amelia 34
Annie 34
Ham 34
Isaac 13
James 34
Joseph 45
Levinia Hester 13
Robert* 34
Willie 34
Annie 37
llenriett* 37
George C 65
Addie 14
Annie 14
James 38
Lemuel 14
Lewis 14
Luther 27
Martha 27
Mar> D* 14
William 14
E F26
S_ 27
Anna Maria 21
Anthony 3
Anthony* 3
Baynard 36
Caroline 21
Charles 3, 21
Elizabeth 21
Elizabeth* 21
Emma 21
George 21
Hester 8
Isaac 3 1
John 3, 21
Joseph 21
Lauzer 27
Louisa 3, 21
Lous 31
Lucv 3
Mary 3 1
S_J 31
Sarah 21
Sarah Jane 21
Thomas 21
William 28
William L 56
Elizabeth 29
George* 29
Michael 24
Carpenter
Hester 12
G W. 16
James 19,67
L James 21
William 16
George 13
Hetty 47
Mar> Ann 47
Wesley 9
James 3
Julius 3
Sally 3
Cornelia 4
E_ Clyde 4
Eva 4
George 4
Hiram 4
Margaret 4
Mrs 32
Samson* 4
Colbome
Colboum
Mary 21
Addie 36
Jonathan 56
Jonathan P 64
Samuel 36
Thomas 4
71
Collier
Ardilla36
Betsy 36
George 35
Levin 17, 35
Levin D 53
Louisa 17
Mary E. 38
SamiP* 36
Collins
Catherine* 19
Charles 30
Ephraim 1 1
Harriett 58
Henry 19
Horatio 58
John B 58
Joseph 58
Joseph M. 58
Joseph R* 58
Levin D. 59
LydiaB.*58
Mary 58
Nancv 52
Nancy* 33
Noah 4
Samuel Q 58
William 3
Coniey
Matthew* 57
property 57
Connell)
Elizabeth 7
Emily* 48
James E 48
John 48
Conner
Clarence 62
Florence 62
George 62
James 62
James* 62
Martha 62
Mary J 62
Walter 62
Conoway
Samuel 48
Cook
Stephen 32
Cooley (Cookey?)
Ann Eliza 2
Robert 2
Cooper
Elizabeth 18
George 1 1
Hiram B 23
John 44
Jonah 39
Jonathan 18
Lambert 13.47
Levin 47
Levin T^ 64
Levin* 45
Lizzie A 47
Mary 19.45
Cooper
Cordry
Noah C 44
Samuel 8
Severn 19
Severn H 47
Severn H. 45
Wailes45
W. H. H. 41
Nancy 58
Annie 5
John 5
Emeline 25
John 31
J K 49
John 19
Octavia33
Rosie 67
Andrew 1 1
H II
H. A. 42
H.N, 51
Henrv* 1 1
Hetty 11
Lizzie A. 42
Margaret 1 1
Mar>' 11
J. W. 40
John 12
Frederick 1 1
Jennie 62
John 23
Mary Ellen 31
Elsie L, 54
F Roy 54
James S 54
Mary Ann 26
William 26
Franklin 49
Henry 52
Salathiel 52
Robert 27
John 10
Richard 10
Richard* 10
William 10
72
I Marcclkis 1
Ueniamin R 63
Caleb 26
Charles 7
Edward 23
Hliza* 26
Henr> JM6
I.M2
Isaac 49
J Louis 46
James 26
John 8, 46
John M 56
John M. 58
John M 46
John Marcellus i:
John Tubman 42
Levin 23, 26, 43
Marcellous 42
Mary A 49
Mar>- A. 49
Oliver 26
Richard 59
Rulus 10
Sally 10
William 9
William HN 64
William W 60
Isaiah*
Robert J 65
Clarence 67
Elizabeth 14
Jesse 13, 60
John W 60
JohnW. 15
Joseph G. 51
Martha E 67
Milby W. 67
Sally Ann 13
William 13
Amanda 8
Amanda E*. 62
Benjamin* 3
Charles M 62
Claud 62
Cord ilia 8
Dora 62
Ebenezer 4
Garrison 51
Julia 15
Levi 51
Littleton* 8
Marcellus 8
Margaret 62
Mary 3
Paul 62
S P 29
S P 10
ST 40
Samuel 3
Doughert>
Douglas
Samuel M 62
Washington 8
William 62
Willie 8
E A30
Eliza 46
H S. W 30
Williamanna A
James 61
Lily E 61
n
Anie46
Caleb 18
Charles R 60
Ellen Rebecca If
Henry W 60
Hetty A 60
Irene 21
James 18,21
Joseph 46
Joseph W, 46
Lawrence 46
Levin B 60
Robert 3
SallieE 46
Samuel 18
William 18
William A 60
William T* 60
William* 18
Isabella 26
James 26
Jimmy 23
Elizabeth 52
J H 49
Levin 12,52.66
Levin W 16
Levin W. 52
Lillian 52
Lula35
Rachel* 52
Robert 9
.Stella W 52
William E 52
Delia F 55
George W 55
Louisa 49
Louisa A. 49
N B 51
William 32. 55
Douglass
73
Dove
Elizabeth* 5
George 5
Downing
James 35
James* 35
Levin 35
MB. 39
Mmus 8
S, P, 16.37
Sarah 35
Sary35
William 35
Downs
Mary 4
William 17
Dredden
Joshua 1 1
Tabitha 1 1
Do'den
George 33
Isaac 33
Joshua 33
Phyllis* 33
Dulany
LH. A, 49
Albert 49
l.H. A. 24
Isaac 31
Duncan
James 15, 32
Lemuel 67
Peter 32
Dunn
Horris 64
PriscillaJ* 64
Dutton
James 33
Levin 33
Noah 33
Dykes
Ebenezer 20
Ellen 20
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Elijah 30
Ellen L. C 53
Ernest 5
Gordon 6
H. V. 39
Henry 63
James* 16.30
Joseph 30
Lucretia 54
Margaret Priscilla 7
Mary 9, 39
Pumell 54
R. H14
Rachel 30
Stanley 53. 66
Stephen 5. 59
Theodore 30. 47
Wesley 68
William 30
Joseph 12
Albert James 13
Benjamin 6. 27
Benjamin* 6
Charles 6
Charles R 42.43
Charles* 51
Daniel J 67
Edna 6
Elishal5
Elizabeth I
Gatty Elizabeth I
George 28. 33
George D 5 1
George W 43
H James 51
Isaac M 67
James 22. 28. 29. 46
James T 50, 52
James T, S. 43
James* 13
John 3, 6. 28. 34. 58. 62
JohnD 16.43.46.47.54.59
JohnH 67
Julian Jane 13
Laura 43
Lemuel 13
Martha 6
Mars- 67
Mary A 42
Mary Cathanne 13
Peter 13
Peter P* 67
Queen 6
R. 33
Rufus 19.67
Rutus K * 42
Rufus Washington 13
S. P. 16
Sallie Elizabeth 51
Sally A 42
William T. 30
William* 1
F. C. 22
George W 54
H. Laird 2, 26. 32, 34. 61
H S^ 22
W J. 31
Lovey 24
87
Turner
Alice 49
Amelia* 31
Ann Maria* 12
Charles Edwin 12
George 12
Henry 12
John 20
Mary 40
MaryW. 63
N. P. 43
Naaman 12
Sally Jane 12
Sarah Virginia 20
Thomas Turner 12
Turpin
Thomas J 60
TvvitTord
Alfred 19
Charlotte 19
Thomas 19
Twit'ord
Thomas L 56
Tvvigg
John 41
Maud 58
Pumell 15
Samuel H 58
Twilley
Easther 14
Francis J 62
George W 62
Hetty 4
India M 47
John 4
John L 62
John R 8, 68
John W* 62
Joseph 14,39,45,47
Joseph P, ♦ 47
Joshua 18
Leah C 62
Levin 62
Levin O 47
Robert 39, 62
Samuel C. 62
Thomas 8
Thomas J^ 35. 57
William F 62
Twilly
Amelia Ann 25
Authur 25
Corral 25
Levin 25
Margaret 25
Tyre
James H 64
VanArsdale
Charles E 65
Vance
Rosanna 46
Vandyke
Mary 31
Stephen 3 1
Veasey
Theadore 66
James 3 1
Mary 19, 52
Richard 34, 45
Thomas 19
James 9. 61
John 22
Luther 45
W
George 53
Thomas 53
Wailes
Annie 59
E, L. 3, 5.6,46,54,56
Ebenezer 46
Ebenezer L* 59
Julia F. 63
SallieA. 63
Samuel 34
Samuel J 54
W. E22
W.J 63
William 13.24.39.63
William J 22.63
William K, W63
Wainwright
George 12
John 12
Rosa* 12
Ware 5
William 12
Walker
Erwin 68
John 68
Mary 57, 68
Thomas W 57
Wallace
Louisa 57
Waller
Alfred 65
Benjamin 8
Charlotte 65
Ellen 64
Emily 40
Emma 61
Fannie E. 52
Frank 65
G. W. D61
George 40
George D 58
George W. D 48
George W D 52
George* 58
Handy 42
Henry* 64
J J. 52
James 58
John 65
Jonathan 52, 58
Jonathan* 52
Joseph 61, 64
Julia Ann 58
Ward
Warner
Watts
Weatherly
Julia D 58
Margaret Virginia 61
Martha 58
Mary 39
Nancy 65
Richard 58
Sally J 55
Thomas W 52
William I, 10.20
William J W 52
William K 55
Alberta 39
Ebe':' 27
Emily 51
Emily Susan 20
Lavinia27
Levin 20
Robert 39
Rosa* 39
Sally Jane 39
William 39, 51
Ella 29
Jamie 54
Rebecca 54
Spencer R 54
Edward 5 1
Julia 5 I
Wm, H51
Betsey Jane 26
Christopher Columbus 26
George William 26
Harriett 47
Sarah 41, 47
William F* 26
William 15
Josephine 42
Constant 19
John 19
Leah* 19
George 67
Mephiboshelh 8
J M30
John 40
Will
Henry 48
Herman 48
Adolphus 63
Alexander 49
Anne 10
Arthur 4
Beachum 48
Charlotte 34
Daniel 48
E, Ryoll 49
Ebenezer 28
Edward 8
Elijah 28
Elisha* 32
Emma28, 48, 59
Enoch 1 1
Enoch George 28
George 26
Grace 49
Guslavus 18, 49, 66
Hannah 37
Henry 49
Howard 28
James 21, 22, 48
John 3, 34, 41, 50
John W 29
Joseph 48
KingV 60
Laura 49
Laura T. 49
Martha J 63
Mary 22. 32
Matilda 41
Melicke(Milissa'') 2
Milley* 34
Nancy 28
Nannie 67
Octovo 48
Roger 48
Samuel 28
Sarah 3, 12, 14
Spicer 1
Thomas 2, 18,28
Thomas W.H. 41
William J. 65
Whalen
WhalcN
Daniel 1
Sarah Williams 1
Edward 52
Polly 38
William 38
John 42
Gertrude 62
Wiley
Leah 5
Kendall M 62
_. W 45
Adeline 58
Alonzo 7
Anna 33
Anne }}
Betsy E 68
Charles 58. 68
Charlotte Alice 20
E. L 33
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Ebe27
Emily 16
Esther* 33
George Francis 65
Ida 40
James 68
Jay 7. 33, 62
John W 49
L. Ernest 21
Leon Ernest 43
Louisa 49
Luther* 7
Maria* 49
Mary Jane 7
Palmyra 7
Samuel 49
Sara Jane 68
Thomas H. 59
W A, C66
Wesley 59
William 33
Alice 49
Francis 64
John 20
Susan Emily 64
Thomasine 33
Addison 13
Addison E. 13
Adison 60
Amelia 19
Benjamin 19
Elizabeth 13
Franklin 23
George Thomas 45
Isaac Watson 13
James T 64
John 13
John Wesley 45
John* 45
Lawrence 46
Levin 61
Marcillus Allen 45
Margaret Jane 45
Mariah Ellen 45
Mary 68
Mary Anne 45
Mary C. 68
Mitchell 23
Robert* 46
Samuel P 47
Virginia A 62
Washington 68
William 13
William Robert 45
William* 13
James 3
Thomas 20
Winwright
Wright
George A. 61
Martha Ellen 61
Eleanor* 25
George 25
D. S37
Albion* 24
Cornelia 24
Ebenezer 23
Elizabeth 14
HettieN.*61
Isaac K 24
James 43
John 14. 20. 41
John H 62
Josephus 14
Levin 9. II, 14
Levin* 14
Lora (Laura) 24
Lucy 43
Maria 43
Noah* 20
Rebecca 23
Virginia 20
1
Mary Jane 5
David 16
Emma 16
Mar\- 10. 16
Cora 53
John W 28
Willis 0 53
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Index to tracts, place names, churches
Addition To Venture 56
Allen 40, 46, 67
Asbury Methodist Lpiscopal Church 46
Bachelor's Folly I I
Bailey Mills 6
Baker's Folly 9
Baltimore Hundred 27
Barren Creek Colored M E Church 36
Barren Creek District 1 1. 34, A5
Barren Creek Mills 13
Barren Creek Springs 23, 45
Barren Creek Springs Presbyterian Church 17
Bennett's Loss 14
Berlin 15
Betsy's Gift 24
Black Soil 13
Black-water 23
Bradley's Beginning 1 1
Brumbley's Mill 50
Cherry Grove Lot, 67
CobbsHill 13,67
Cod Creek Farm 23
Cod Creek Mills 23
Collins Farm 62
Dashiell's Success 34
Deals Island 26
Delmar 34, 35, 52, 53, 63, 66
Discovery 1 5
Donoho Farm 23
Donohoe Mills 23
Dorchester County 1 1
Double Mills 14
English Mill 45
Facubus 9
Firtzells's Enjoyment 18
Frankford 27
Fruitland 9, 67
Gargatha 13
Georgetown Bank 23
George's Purchase 9
Gladson's Adventure 45
Gladson's Adventure and Hardship 45
Gladstone Adventure 1 1
Golden Valley 67
Gordan Farm 12
Graham Farm 67
Green Hill 64
Gum Mill Pond 27
Hampton 67
Hardship 1 1
Heam Farm 29
Homestead 1 1
Hongar\ Qualer 3
Hooper Farm 6
HomtownMill 14,45
Huffington Farm 13
Indian Creek 1 1
Indian Town 1 1
Ireland's Eye 22
Island Eyr 57
John Dashiell Farm 8
Jonathan's Luck 9
Jones Farm 21
Jones M E Church 63
Jones Mills 21
Killiam Farm 53
I.aban's Discovery 30
Langsdalc Farm 1 1
Laura 43
Laurel 60
Laurel Delaware 38
Little Creek Hundred 23, 39, 52, 63
Long Delay 56
Melson Meeting House 27
Methodist Episcopal Church in Sharptown 35
Methodist Protestant Church of Salisbur>' 33
Methodist-Protestant Church at Riverton 3 1
Middle Neck Branch 38
Mitchell's Bridge 13
Nanticoke River II, 19, 20, 45
New Hope 67
New Hope Mill Pond 67
Nutters District 6
Oak Hall 34
Oregon 63
Parsonsburg 45
Peters Hill 15
Philadelphia 29, 48
Phippin's Promise land 17
Pittsville 25, 32, 50
Poor Chance 22
Powellsville 50
Powellville4
Powellville Methodist Protestant Church 60
Presbyterian Church in Salisbury 16, 37
Price Farm 8
Primitive Baptist Church 19
Protestant Episcopal Church in Quantico 25
Quantico 7, 1 1, 25
Quantico District 24, 62, 64
Rewastico Mills 24
Ridgefield Landing 56
Riverton 14,45
Roaring Point 63
Robinson's Delight 8
Robinson's Hill 1 1
Rockawalking 15
Rockawalking M E Church 7
Saint Peters Protestant Episcopal Church 37
Salisbury 3, 5, 6, 13, 15, 16, 18, 19,28,29,31,34,
38,40,42,44,46-48,54-56.58,61,
62, 65, 66
Sandy Hill 9
Sandy Point 1 1
Securities Addition 20
Selbyville 27
Shad Point 29
Sharptown 4, 8, 11, 18, 23, 35, 56. 57, 64
Sharptown District 44
Sheppard's Third Addition To Golden Vallev 13
Snow Hill 4, 56
Solomon's Fortune 13
Spring Hill 28, 64
Spring Hill Church 24, 31
St Peters Church 10
Stevens Farm 7
Stewart Lot 67
Sussex County 9
Tavlor Addition 1 1
91
Teague's Folly 4
Tilghman Farm 6
Toadvine Wharf 6
Tower Hill 1 1
Trappe District 18,29,62,48
Trappe Election District 26, 68
Turkey Ridge 13,67
Tyaskin 12,49,63
Tyaskin District 37, 39
Ulman & Bro 28
Upper Ferry 26, 41
Upper Trappe 5, 7
Western Fields 13
Wetipquin Creek 49
White Farm 8
White Haven 8
Whitehaven 64
Wicomico Presbyterian Church 6. 37,
Witipquin Creek 8
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