1713 Will of William Cove
Vol. 12, Pages 605-606
Dorchester Co., Maryland

In the Name of God, Amen, I WILLIAM COVE being very sick in body but in perfect memory do here make my last will and testament. First, I bequeath my soul to God who gave it me and second my body to the earth to be buried in a decent manner and I make my Dear and loving wife my whole and sole executrix so long as she shall keep her self unmarried but if she marries then she shall have but her third, and if she keeps her self unmarried, then nothing shall be demanded until her demise and then my plantation and the land that belongs to it I give to my son, William Cove, only he shall pay to his two brothers two thousand pounds of good sound merchantable leafe tobacco and cash to containeth same to be paid to them when they shall arrive at the age of twenty and one years and for what moveables there is to be equally divided amongst all my children, after my debts as paid that shall be made appeare by bill bond, or account according to law, only the moll and great chest and couch never shall be moved from the house so I set my hand and ____ my seal

Rich Mitchell, March 30th 1713----------------------------------------William Cove (XX) (Seal)
Joseph T. Thomas, Humphrey Hubard,
Daniel Hubard

On the back of the foregoing will was thus endorsed, June 11th, 1713...Then came before me Richard Mitchell and Joseph Thomas and made oath on the Holy Evangelist that they saw William Cove sign and declare the within written will to be his last will and testament, and at the same time he was to the best of their knowledge of a perfect and sound mind and memory and likewise that they saw Humphry Hubbard and Daniel Hubard sign with Thomas as evidentiaries, Juratt ______Roger Woollford, Dep

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