Frederick County MD Archives Wills.....Mobberly, Tabitha May 26, 1812
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Source: Frederick Co Md Wills New Market V.6 P.295
Written: May 26, 1812

In the Name of God Amen. I Tabitha Mobberly of Frederick County and State of
Maryland Aged Twenty five years being sick and weak in body but of Sound and
Disposing mind memory and understanding considering the certainty of Death and
the uncertainty of the time thereof and being Desirous to Settle my Worldly
Affairs and thereby be the better prepared to leave this world when it shall
please God to all me home do therefore make and publish this my last will and
Testament in manner and form following That is to say First and principally I
commit my soul into the hands of Almighty God and my Body to the Earth to be
decently buried at the discretion of my mother ~ It is my will that my Negro
woman Druse aged thirty one years on the fifteenth day of September last past
shall serve my mother until she arrives to the age of thirty eight years and
then to be set at liberty ~ And it is my will that my mother shall have the use
of my part of the land left by my father During her natural life and then to be
Equally Divided among my Brothers and Sisters and it is my will that my Sister
Sarah shall have my Riding Mare ~ And lastly ~ I do hereby constitute and
appoint my mother to be sole Executrix of this my last will and Testament In
Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this Sixteenth
day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twelve.

Tabitha Mobberly her mark

Signed Sealed Published and Declared by Tabitha Mobberly the above named
Testatrix [?] her last will and Testament in the presence of us who at her
request in her presence and in the presence of each other have Subscribed our
names in witness thereto ~ Jesse Wright, John H. Burgess, M. McLaughlin

Frederick County to wit on the 26th day of May 1812 then came Drusilla Mobberly
and made Oath on the holy Evangels of Almighty God that the foregoing instrument
of writing is the true whole will and Testament of Tabitha Mobberly late of
Frederick County Deceased that that come to her hands and possession and that
she doth not know of any other.

Rich. Butler Reg.

Frederick County to wit on the 26th day of May 1812 then came Jesse Wright, John
H. Burgess & Michael McLaughlin the three Subscribing Witnesses to the foregoing
last will and Testament of Tabitha Mobberly late of Frederick County Deceased
and made Oath on the holy Evangels of Almighty God that they did see the
Testatrix therein named Sign and seal this will that they heard her Publish
Pronounce and Declare the same to be her last will and Testament That at the
time of her so doing she was to the best of their apprehensions of a Sound and
Disposing mind memory and understanding that they respectively Subscribed their
names as witnesses to this will in the presence and at the request of the
Testatrix and all in the presence of each other.

Rich. Butler Reg.


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