Will of Daniel NAIL (1828), Carroll County, MD

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Liber HS 3, Folio 628       Microfilm CR 49, 163;  Maryland State Archives

Will of Daniel Nail, son of Philip Daniel Nail, July 11, 1828.

"In the name of God Amen, I Daniel Nail of Frederick County, in the State of 
Maryland, being sick in body, but of sound and disposing mind, memory, and 
understanding, knowing the certainty of death, and the uncertainty of the time 
thereof, and being desirous to settle my wordly affairs, and thereby be the 
better prepared to leave this world, when it shall please God to call me hence, 
do therefore make and publish this my last will and testament in the 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 executor herin after named.    Item.  I direct that the 
whole of my estate both real and personal shall be sold by my Executor 
herinafter namd as soon as may be, after my death either at publick or at 
private sale as he may think best, and after my debts and funeral charges are 
paid, I direct that the proceeds of such sale or sales shall be divided as 
follows.    Item.  I give and bequeath unto Ester Stoneseiffer (the woman who 
now lives with me) fifty dollars current money for her services rendered.    
Item.  I give and bequeath unto Peter Nail son of Jacob two dollars current 
money, the ballance of the money arising from the above named sale or sales I 
give and bequeath unto my brothers & sisters children, share and share alike to 
be paid to them when they shall arrive at lawfull age, or to their Guardian, 
excepting Peter Nail son of Jacob who is to have no more than the above named 
two dollars.    And lastly I hereby nominate, constitute and appoint my friend 
Jacob Mathias sole executor of this my last will and testament, authorising my 
said Executor to convey by deed of conveyance all property he may sell under the 
directions of this will, in as full & ample a manner as I myself would do, were 
I personally present & yet living, revoking and annulling all former wills by me 
heretofore made, ratifying and confirming this and none other to be my last will 
and testament. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my 
seal this eleventh day of July Eighteen hundred and twenty eight. 

                                                            his
Signed, Sealed, published and declared by             Daniel X Nail  {Seal}
the above named Daniel Nail, as and for his                mark
last will and testament, in the presence of us
who at his request in his presence and in the pre-
sence of each other have subscribed our names as
witnesses thereto.      Robert Crawford
                        David Leister
                        John Slyder

Maryland Frederick County to wit;  On the 21st day of July 1828, came Jacob 
Mathias and made Oath on the Holy Evangels of Almighty God, that the foregoing 
instrument of writing, is the true whole will and testament of Daniel Nail, late 
of Frederick County, deceased, that hath come to his hands and professes, that 
he doth not know of any other.
                                    Test. G. M. Eichelberger Reg.

      Maryland Frederick County to wit.
            On the 21st day of July 1828, came Robert Crawford and _____, two of 
the subscribing witnesses to the foregoing last will and testament of Daniel 
Nail, decd., 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 thereto, at the request of the testator, 
and in his presence, and they did also see ______, the other subscribing 
witness, subscribe his name, as a witness thereto, at the request of the 
testator, and in his presence, and all in the presence of each other. --
                                    Test. G. M. Eichelberger Reg.