Wills: Last Will and Testament of Peter Hagan (1850): Frederick County, MD

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LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF
PETER HAGAN
Liber TS No 1, Folio s6
Frederick County Court House
Frederick, MD.


In the name of God amen.
I, Peter Hagan, in the county of Frederick, in the state of Maryland, being weak in body, 
but of sound mind, memory and understanding and being desires of setting my worldly 
affairs before it shall please God to call me hence, do hereby make and publish this my 
Last Will and Testament as follows:
First, I commit my soul into the hands of Almighty God, and my body to earth to be 
decently buried at the discretion of my executors hereinafter named, and after my just 
debts and funeral chares are paid I give and devise as follows:  I order and direct my 
personal property to be sold as soon after my decease as convenient, my negro woman 
___ and my boy Jim shall not be sold to any person that will take them out of the state of 
Maryland; I further order and direct my executors hereafter named to sell my real estate 
after the expiration of one year after the 1st day of April 1850, and to make deeds for the 
same, to sell said real estate on such terms as may be thought most advantageous to my 
estate by said executors.  I further order and direct that my son John Hagan shall have the 
use and occupation of the farm now in his possession for the term of one year after my 
death without paying any rent for the same, with the right to sow out a crop next fall and 
culling and sewing the same for his own use, the crop now growing on said the one third  
shall be paid over to my executors as part of my estate; the above year rent of said farm I 
give to my said son John in lieu of any claim of debt or expense that he may have been at 
by making repairs and improvements on said farm; I give and devise all the net proceeds of 
sale of all my real and personal estate of every description to be equally divided into six 
parts as follows, I give one sixth part thereof to my son John Hagan; one sixth part thereof 
to my son Henry Hagan; one sixth part thereof to my son Michael Hagan; one sixth part to 
my daughter Catherine Ringer and one sixth part thereof to my daughter Macey [could by 
Mary] Hagan, and the other sixth part thereof I order and direct shall be put in the hands 
of a trustee appointed by the court, for the use of my son Stephen Hagan's wife and 
children, the principal to be loaded out by said trustee or invested in some safe manner by 
order of the court, the interest thereof and no more to be applied to the support of the said 
Stephen Hagan's wife and children and the receipt of for said interest signed by the said 
Stephen Hagan and his wife shall be a good release to the trustee.  I give and order the 
said one sixth part of my estate which shall be in the hands of the trustee as aforesaid to be 
paid over after the death of my son Stephen Hagan to his children share and share alike; I 
further order and direct my son Henry Hagan to pay over into my estate three hundred 
dollars, being the amount due from him to me; and lastly I do hereby constitute and 
appoint my friend Michael McCartney and my son John Hagan my executors of this my 
Last will and Testament, hereby revoking and annulling all former wills here before made, 
and acknowledging this and none other to by my Last Will and Testament.  In testimony 
whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this fifth day of February 1850

                                                                        His
                                                                  Peter  X  Hagan
                                                                        Mark

Signed, sealed, published and delivered by Peter Hagan to the above named testator as and 
for his Last Will and Testament in the presence of us, who at his request, in his presence 
and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names in witness thereto
                                 George Smith,  Jacob Thomas,  John Coblentz of P