Will of Jacob BANKER (1783), Carroll County, MD
Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Roger Nale <rnale1@comcast.net>
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Liber GM 2, Folio 310; Microfilm CR 49, 160; Maryland State Archives.
The text of Jacob Banker's will, as transcribed from the original by Roger Nale,
follows:
(Capitalization, spelling and punctuation copied exactly as shown in original
text.)
"In the name of God Amen. The Twentieth day of January AD. one thousand seven
hundred and eighty three. I Jacob Banker of Frederick County and state of
Maryland being weak in body but of perfect mind and memory Thanks be to God for
it remembering the mortality of all Flesh and that it is appointed for all men
once to die do make and ordain this my last will and Testament, that is to say
first of all I give and recomend my soul unto the hands of God that gave it and
my Body to the Earth to be decently buryed in Christian like manner till the
coman resurection believing that all men must appear before almighty God, and as
touching such worldly Estate where with it hath pleased God to bless me in this
life. I give and dispense of the same in the following manner and form
Inifirimes. It is my will and I do order that in the first place all my just
debts and funeral charges be paid and satisfied, and then I give and bequeath to
my beloved wife Ester one good feather bed with Bedstead and curtains with
compleat furniture thereto belonging and as much of the kitchens furniture as
she may be in need of and the chest with all what is in it that belongs to her
is to be given to her and the choice out of my cows she is to take and is to
have one and then I give to her my said wife Ester the sum of Three Hundred
pounds good hard specie the said money to be taken from the first money that
becomes due -- I give to my oldest son Jacob ten pounds good hard specie for a
foremost present and then I give and bequeath unto him the said my son Jacob one
hundred and twenty five acres of Land situate and Lying on or near great pipe
Creek being part of a Tract of land called Carolina and part of the addition to
Carolina and part of a tract called Ohio to make up the full quantity of one
hundred and twenty five acres of Land as aforsaid next adjoining to the House
where the said my son Jacob now lives, to be laid of to him by way as Christian
Bower has begun and finishes for him and his heirs and assigns for ever, the
said my son Jacob his heirs or assigns paying the just and full sum of one
hundred and twenty pounds good hard specie. That money to be paid to my
Executors and Guardians that is to say twenty five pounds one year after my
decease and so on twenty five pounds every year untill the whole is paid. Item
I give and bequeath unto my second son John the full and just quantity of one
hundred and twenty five acres of land being situate near great Pipe Creek as
aforsaid being part of a Tract called Carolina as aforesaid and part of a Tract
called Ohio aforsaid and part of a tract called Hill Spring and part of a tract
called Christophers Lott and Ohio one outside line of Peter Michael running a
tourts Philip Nail so as to make up the full quantity of one hundred and twenty
five Acres to be laid off by Christian Bower next adjoining the house where the
said my son John now lives to be described to him his heirs and assigns for ever
he or them paying the just and full sum of sixty five pounds to my Executors to
my Executors and guardians that is to say twenty pounds one after my decease and
twenty pounds two years after my Decease and twenty five pounds the third year
after my Decease -- Item I give and bequeath unto my third son Peter the full
and just quantity of one hundred and twenty five acres of land situate near Pipe
Creed as aforesaid being part of a tract called Ohio as aforsaid and part of a
Tract called Carolina aforsaid and part of a Tract called Christophers Lott to
make up the said one hundred and twenty five acres of Land next adjoining the
improvements be lately made on the Deep Run to be laid off by the aforsaid
Christian Bower to him the said my son Peter his heirs and assigns forever he or
them paying the full and just sum of fifty pounds good hard specie to my
Executors and guardians that is to say Twenty five pounds one year after my
decease and twenty five pounds two years after my decease. Item I give and
bequeath unto my son Christophel the full and just quantity of one hundred and
twenty five acres of land situate near pipe Creek aforsaid being part of a tract
called Ohio and part of a tract called Jacob Lott and part of a Tract called
Hill Spring and part of a tract called Christophers Lott and Ohio one the
outside line of Peter Michael running a tourts Philip Nail so as to make up the
full quantity of one hundred and twenty five acres to be laid of by Christian
Bower next as to join the improvements my son Christophel hath made to be
described to him my said son Christophel his heir and assigns forever he or they
paying the full and Just sum of Sixty fife pounds to my Executors and Guardians
that is to say Twenty pounds two years after my decease and twenty five pounds
the third year after my Decease. Item I give and bequeath to my Eldest
Daughter Margarett the full and Just quantity of fifty acres thirty acres being
part of a tract called ohio twenty acres being part of Ohio and part of Carolina
to be laid of by the said Christian Bower to her and her heirs and assigns
forever she or they paying for the twenty acres the full and just sum of forty
pounds specie to my Executors or guardians to be taken out of her portion
hereafter described or mentioned. Item I give and bequeath unto my fifth son
Abraham the full and just sum of fifty pounds good hard specie the money is to
be taken from such money that will become due from the Mill and place where I
now Dwell at as hereafter mentioned -- Item I give to my Sixth son Henry the
full and just sum of fifty good hard specie to be taken out of the same money as
just mentioned from the Mill and place above said and Abraham and Henry my two
last sons are to be paid when they become of age and the money is due or
received from the mill and place. Item it is to be and it is my will and
desire that my mill and my land that is to say my plantation with the mill and
all said belonging to be or remaining in my possession after my four sons namely
Jacob John Pater and Christophel and my Daughter Margaret have taken their
portion as before mentioned is all to be sold after my decease and the money
whatsoever it will be sold for is to be divided amongst my six Daughters and two
sons namely to my son Abraham and to my son Henry and then to my Daughter
Margareth and to my Daughter Catharine and to Magdalena and to my Daughter Mary
and to my Daughter Judith and to my Daughter Ester and all these moneys is to be
divided so that each of the aforsaid six Daughters and my two youngest sons is
to have an equal share of the same and what sum or sums is to be paid from my
four eldest sons as namely Jacob John Peter and Christophel, that is to say
ninety pounds the first year after my Decease and ninety pounds two years after
my decease and three years after my decease seventy five pounds the fourth year
after my decease twenty five pounds and the fifth year after my decease twenty
pounds all this money namely three Hundred pounds is to be divided and an equal
share to be given to the above mentioned six Daughters and two Sons namely my
son Abraham and my son Henry and my Daughter Margareth and Catarina my Daughter
Mary and my Daughter Magdalena and my Daughter Judith and my Daughter Ester so
that each of them is to have an equal part of it -- And then all the Residue of
my personal Estate shall be equally divided amongst my twelf Children that is to
say if they among themself can agree the my twelf children may join and Divided
among themself peacable and if in case they cannot agree my two Executors or
guardians shall be fully empowerd to divide it among them twelf and give a equal
part to each of them and if after my Decease their should be any Debts due to me
or my Executors as upon Bonds notes or Book Debts all such Moneys is to be
demanded and received by my Executors and Divided among my above said six
Daughters and two younger sons namely to my son Abraham to my son Henry and to
my Daughter Margareth and to my Daughter Chatarina to my Daughter Mary and to my
Daughter Madgalena and to my Daughter Judith and to my Daughter Ester -- And I
do hereby make constitute and ordain my beloved friend David Shriver and Jacob
Cassel to be my sole Executors of this my last will and Testament and to be
guardians of all my Children in there minority as well as (be all?) to my other
children agreeable to the intent and meaning of this my last will and Testament.
Ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last will and Testament. In
Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seas the day and year above
written.
Signed Sealed and Delivered Published
and pronounced and declared by the
said Jacob Benker as his last will
in the presence of us the Subscribers
Chas. Angell
John Angel
Jacob Angel
John Miller
Frederick County June 3, 1789
Then came Charles Angel and John Angel two of the subscribing witnesses to the
aforgoing last will and Testament of Jacob Bankard late of Frederick County
deceased and made oath that they did see the Testator therin named sign and seal
this will that they heard him publish pronounce and declare the same to be his
last will and Testament that at the time of his so doing he was to the best of
their knowledge 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 Testator and that they did also see Jacob Angel and
John Miller sign their names as witnesses thereto in the presence and at the
request of the Testator and all in the presence of each other.
Geo. Murdock Reg.