Last Will and Testament of Samuel BIXLER (1797), Carroll County, Maryland

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Will of Samuel Bixler... Frederick County, Md. Courthouse, Folio GM3, 
                         Page 504-506

Transcribed by Richard Huneke, September 5, 2004

In the Name of God Amen.  I Samuel Bixler of Frederick County and State of 
Maryland Farmer being weak in Body but of sound mind and memory thanks be given 
unto Almighty God calling to mind the mortality of my body do make and ordain 
this my last will and Testament in the following manner and form that is to say, 
First of all I Command my soul into the hands of Almighty god that gave it and 
my Body I recommand (sic) to the Earth to be buried in Decent Christian Burial 
at the discretion of my Executors and as for my Worldly Estate whosowith it has 
pleased god to bless me with in this life I give Devise and dispose of the Same 
in the following manner and form  It is my will and pleasure that my Wife 
Elizabeth shall have ninety pounds Specie out of my Moveable Estate and a Good 
bed and bedstead and furniture thereto belonging and her Spinning Wheel and a 
good Chest and all the Putor (sic) and Kitching Whear (sic) which she brought to 
me and my Son Peter shall Keep her a riding creature Suficient (sic) for her use 
and two Cows and two Sheep and them shall be used as his own and those during 
her natural life if she remains a widow but if not it shall fall to my Children 
again and is further my will that my wife Elizabeth shall have yearly as long as 
she remains a widow Twenty Bushels of wheat and ten Bushels of Rye and fifteen 
pounds of Hackelt flax and fifteen pounds of Toe (?) and one hundred pounds of 
Good Pork and fifty pounds of good beef and one pair of Shoes one bushel of Salt 
and she shall have suficient (sic) fire wood brought to the Door and cut 
suficient (sic) for her use and she shall have her Widow Seat in the house where 
I live in now and shall have the Old Gartain (sic) next to the house and room in 
the Spring house and three of the Largest apple Trees and two roos in the next 
orchard and two roos (sic) in the Ober (sic) orchard and the one third part of 
my Personal Estate and all the Linnon (sic) and Woolen Stuff which remains after 
my Decease and the remainder of my Personal Estate shall be praised after my 
Decease and Sold and the money shall be Equilly (sic) Divided amongst all my 
Children Excepting my son Samuel Shall have three Pounds over and above his 
Equil shear (sic) with the rest of my Children and further it is my will that my 
son Peter Bixler shall have my Plantation and all my land which I hold for the 
Sum of Four Hundred Pounds Specie out of the said four Hundred pounds my son 
Peter shall have his Equil Shear (sic) with the rest of my Children and my son 
Peter shall pay yearly Twenty Pounds until the four hundred pounds is paid his 
share Excepted that it is to say to my son Samuel Twenty Pounds one year after 
my Decease and so on yearly according to their age until the aforesaid four 
Hundred Pounds is paid   Lastly I do hereby nominate ordain Constitute and 
appoint Samuel Flickinger of York County and the State of Pennsylvania Farmer 
and my Son Peter Bixler and my Wife Elizabeth both of Frederick County and the 
State of Maryland to be my Whole and Sole Executors and Executrix of this my 
last will and Testament  and I do hereby revoke Disanul (sic) all former will 
and Wills Testament and Legacies by me made ratifying and confirming this and no 
other to be my last will and Testament In Witness whereof I have set hereunto my 
name and Seal this fifteenth day of may one thousand seven hundred and Ninety 
Seven.

Signed Sealed Published Pronounced and Declared by him the Said Samuel Bixler as 
his last will and Testament in presence of George Mathias, Christian Bower, John 
Bower

Samuel Bixler X his mark (Seal)


Frederick County, June 14th 1803 There came Peter Bixler and made oath on the 
Holy Evangels of Almighty God that the aforegoing Instrument of writing is the 
True and whole will and Testement (sic) of Samuel Bixler late of Frederick 
County Deceased that hath come to his hands and posession (sic) and that he Doth 
not Know of any other.    
George Murdock Register

Frederick County, June 14th 1803 There came Christian Bower and John Bower two 
of the Subscribing Witnesses to the aforegoing last will and Testament of Samuel 
Bixler late of Frederick County Deceased and made oath on the holy Evangels of 
Almighty God that they did see the Testator therein 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 
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 Testator and that they did also see George Mathias the 
other Subscribing Witness Sign his name as a Witness to said Will in the 
Presence and at the request of the Testator and all in the Presence of each 
other.  
George Murdock Register

We Samuel Flickinger and Elizabeth Bixler two of the appointed Executor and 
Executrix in the last Will and Testament of Samuel Bixler late of Frederick 
County Deceased do hereby refuse to Act as Executor and Executrix to said will 
by virtue of said appointment and do therefore renounce all our right Title and 
Claim to said Executor and Executrixship accordingly as witness our hands this   
Day of June 1803  

Samuel Flickinger
Elizabeth Bixler