Will of John STULL (1749); Frederick County, MD

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In the Name of God, Amen.  The seventeenth Day of April in the in the [sic] year 
of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and forty nine.  I, John Stull of 
Frederick County & Province of Maryland, Millar [?], being in perfect Mind & 
Memory thanks be given to Almighty God therefore; and calling to Mind the 
Mortality of my Body & knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die, do 
make and appoint this my Last Will and Testament, that is to say principally and 
first of all I give & recommend my Soul unto the Hands of God that gave it, and 
for my Body I recommend it to the Earth to be buried in a Cristian Like & 
[illegible] Manner, nothing doubting but at the general Resurrection I shall 
receive the same again by the mighty power of God! & as touching what worldly 
Estate it hath pleased God to bless me with in this Life I give devise & dispose 
of the same in the following manner and Form

Imprimis I give and bequeath unto Martha Stull my beloved Wife, one half of all 
my Stock of Cattle Horses Mares Hoggs and Sheep, and all my Household Stuff as 
Bedding and all Furthiture belonging to my House, and further I do give unto her 
my beloved Wife, for during her Term of Life one half of my Plantation whereon I 
now live called Whiskey & one half of my Mills & Stills hereon, allowing her to 
be at hone half the whole Expence in keeping them in good Repair; and also Ido 
give unto her for and during Term of Life as aforesaid one half of my Sleaves 
(excepting what I shall here of intirely dispose of to my Children) to be in her 
service and at her Command. & at what Time it may please God that she lives & 
that she shall not have it in her power, in any advantages that may to her 
appear to dispose of them any other way, neither, slaves nor premises, than or 
by in her use on that plantation called Whiskey, and at her Decease that they 
viz the Slaves & premisses shall be the property of my son Daniel Stull and 
further I give unto her my beloved Wife, all the Children from the Date hereof 
that Negro Nan & Negro Hester will bear & have to be here own and intirely at 
her disposal as she thinks proper.

Item I do give and bequeath to my Son Daniel Stull, all that Tract of Land 
called Whiskey with all the additions ever by me hereunto laid, with all the 
Improvements and appurtances thereto belonging Mill & Stilles& all whatsoever 
and me half of my Stock of Cattle, Horses,Mares, Hoggs and Sheep and all my Plow 
Sakeling [?] & axes Hoes Waggon & Waggon Sakeling and all Tools whatsoever that 
are properly mine on that Plantation called Whisky, and all the money due to me 
at my Decease I do give to him.  And further I do give to him Negro Peter & 
Negro Nan, which I do will & have given on half tehir Labour to my Wife: also on 
half of Whisky with the appurtenances thereto belonging and at her Decease to be  
sit interely his; unless which it is not in his power, to part with dispurse or 
disposeof any of them vis. the Slaves Mill or Stills leaving this Charge to my 
Son Daniel and oblidging him to my Sons Jacob & Isaac to give Learning at his 
own Expence so far as they shall beaccomplisht for Country Business, and further 
and obligation on him that he shall pay the Sum of four hundred pounds Currancy 
of Maryland, as hereafter shall dispose of & to be raised out of that part of my 
Estate which I have given to him.

Item I do give and bequeath unto my Son John Stull all that Tract of Land called 
Slow Spring and all that Tract called Olavasant State, both Lands laying to 
gether & situate in the Waters of Anteatum, on a Branch thereof called Beaver 
Creek, appointing him to pay to my Son Issac at teh age of twenty-one years one 
hundred pounds current money of Maryland, also I do give to my son John all the 
Improvements on the aforesaid Land Mill and all other appurtainances thereto 
belogntion, and I do give to him Negro Jam which shall become his property at 
the year of twenty one of his age, and that my son Daniel shall at his own 
expence take such proper methods to accertain it to him & his Heirs at that age 
viz. twenty one years, that is he shall have the use of the said Lands promised 
& Negro from henceforth, but that Daniel shall not make it over to him untill he 
is twenty-one years old and at that age he shall give him two Cows & Calves & 
Ninety [?] Head of Hoggs on the said Place.

Item I do give unto my Son Jacob a  Negro Girl called Hester & one hundred 
Pounds current money of Maryland, which Negro & Sum of money is to be delivered 
to him & paid at the twenty one years of his age by my Son Daniel, this hundred 
pounds being part of that above mentioned that Daniel is to pay.  Wherefore he 
shall pay my son Jacob Stull at the age aforesaid the the said one hundred 
pound.

Item I do give to my Son Isaac fifty pounds current money payable from my Son 
Daniel to him at the  year of twenty one of his age being part of the Sum he is 
to pay as aforesaid.

Item I do give to my Daughter Mary Groathouse one Shilling Sterling to be levied 
of my Estate & paid by my Exr. on the Day of my Burial.

Item I do give to my Daughter Elizabeth Johnson one Shilling Sterling to be 
levied of my Estate & paid by my Exr. on the Day of my Burial.

Item I do give to my Daughter Cathrine Swearingham fifty pounds courant Money 
payable from my Son Daniel to her thirty days after the Day of my Burial.

Item I do give to my Daughter Margaret Stull one Negro Girl called Jean and 
fifty pounds Courrant Money payable from my Son Daniel to her at the sixteenth 
year of her age.

Item I do give to my Daughter Susannah Stull one Negro Girl called Jenny & fifty 
pounds Courrant Money payable from my Son Daniel to her at the sixteenth year of 
her age.

Item I do give and bequeath to Rachel Groathouse daughter of Mary Groathouse, 
fifty pounds Current Money payable from my Son Daniel to her at the sixteenth 
year of her age.

Item I do give to Martha Johnson Daughter of Elizabeth Johnson fifty pounds 
Courrant Money payable from my Son Daniel to her at the sixteenth year of her 
age, being the Residue of the four hundred pounds above said that Daniel is to 
pay.

And I do hereby constitute ordain & appoint my son Daniel Stull  my whole & sole 
executor of all my Sestate both real & personal utterly disallowing revoking & 
disannulling all and every other Testaments Wills & Sigaries by me in any wise 
before this Time named and bequeathed.  Ratifying & confirming this and no other 
to be my Last Will & Testament In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my Hand & 
Seal the Day & Year above written.

[signed]

Signed Signed Sealed published pronounced & declared by the said John Stull as 
his Last Will & Testament in the presence of us the Subscribers. 
Jas Smith, Jos Smith, Thomas Hog