Wicomico County, Maryland wills, 1867-1879, Part 1

Author: Keddie, Leslie; Keddie, Neil
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GENEALOGY 975.201 W6 3K 1867-1897


WICOMICO COUNTY, MARYLAND WILLS LIBER WB #1 December 1867-December 1879


Abstracted by Leslie and Neil Keddie The Family Tree Bookshop www.familytreebookshop.com


WICOMICO COUNTY, MARYLAND WILLS LIBER WB #1 December 1867-December 1879


The following wills have been abstracted from the Wcimico county Register of Wills documents which can be found on microfilm MSA CR65 from the Maryland Hall of Records. Wicomico county was established in 1867 out of the Worcester and Somerset Counties.


We have attempted to abstract as much vital information as possible in order to facilitate the researcher in their quest. The first date given refers to the date the will was written -- the second date is that of the probate of the will. Following down, are the various legatees and relationship (when mentioned) to the testator. We have listed all bequests following the legatee's name and have done so by pulling all the information together. In many of the wills, the bequests are scattered about, so that our abstracts do not fully follow the exact order in which the will was written. We have also included the tract names and the names of individuals -- where mentioned -- whose property lay adjacent to the testator's land.


One of the difficulties of abstracting old documents is the handwriting of the clerk, The wills contained on the microfilm are all clerk's copies of the original document. Thus, the clerk did copy verbatim the will as it had been dictated onto the original. In many cases these were written and spelled the same as the testator spoke which causes some problems of translation. However it is important for the researcher in some instances as it gives one a sense of how the testator spoke and what type of dialect he may have had. The most obvious is the spelling of some of the names ---- Heser, for "Hester" or "Sary" for "Sarah" and "Alec" for "Alice" Also the dialect of the shore made it common for the inhabitants to use the words "Daster" or "dater" for daughter. Where names or tract names or even items are indecipherable, we have placed (?) after the word in question.


At the end of the will are the signatures of the subscribing witnesses -- being those who could swear that the will was the acknowledged will of the testator and that he was of sound mind when the document was written. Then came: refers to those witnesses who appeared before the magistrates to swear of their presence and the authenticity of the will.


Following Then came" May be another "Then came:" in which the widow appeared before the magistrates and either agreed to abide by the legacies and divisions of the will as written, or


refused and instead elected to have her lawful thirds, which means she could -- by law -- take one third (her dower portion) of the testator's estate both in real estate and personal estate.


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Wicomico County Wills Liber WB1 December 1867 - December 1879 (Abstracted from MSA CR65)


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Annis Williams (Somerset County)*


21 July 1866


To son Thomas H. Williams - farm in Somerset County containing 380 acres, $3000


To son James F. Williams - half of farm if son Thomas dies without heir, $3000, my family Bible To the children of daughter Mary Ann Leonard - half of farm if son Thomas dies without heir To daughter Mary Ann Leonard - the yearly interest on $2000, my clothes


To granddaughter Martha E. Leonard - bed and furniture


To granddaughter Julia Estheranne Leonard - bed and furniture


To granddaughter Ellen Leonard - spinning wheel


To my former slaves Leah Williams and Milly Williams - $500 as they need and also my beehive To William Anna Leonard - bureau


Executor: son James


Witness: Samuel A. Graham, William W. Gordy, Charles W. Dennis 28 December 1867 Then came


F:5 Elijah Pinkett (Worcester County)*


15 May 1866


To son Elijah - $10


To wife Milly - remainder of estate for widowhood


To children John, Sally, Charlotte- personal estate


To son John - after wife's widowhood, house and lot which begins, at the corner of Levin Houston's lot, on the street and running back 104 feet and thence across parallel with the street leading by the Presbyterian Church, in front of my house to my line next to a lot formerly owned by George Todd


Executor: son John


Witness: Josiah Causey, Conrad Jordan, Thomas Humphrey 13 April 1868 Then came


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Narcissa Truitt (Worcester)* widow of John Truitt


13 January 1864 To daughter Sarah Dennis, widow of Henry Dennis Junior - residue of property


To granddaughter Phones Dennis daughter of Sarah - bed and furniture To grandson Charles H. Dennis son of Sarah - bed and furniture Witness: John D. Sheppard, James W. A. Davis


1 June 1868 Then came


*original county - will made before the creation of Wicomico


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F:12 Henry Carey 28 July 1868


To grandson William Albert Carey son of John - the sum of $25 at the age of eighteen


To wife Elizabeth - $165 or 1/3 of estate


To three children Theodore, Julia Sturgis wife of Thos., and John Carey now of Delaware - remainder of estate


Executor: James Duncan, Edward White


Witness: Hiram J. Bailey, Levin H. Dennis, John S. Duskey


3 August 1868 Then came


F:13 William H. Carey


4 May 1868


To wife Charlotte - estate for widowhood


To children - property after wife's widowhood


To relatives and friends - use of 1/4 acre for graveyard


Executor: wife


Witness: Ebenezer Disharoon, Josiah McGrath, George W. Cathell 26 August 1868 Then came


F:14 Samuel Elsey


2 April 1867


To wife Nancy - house and lot known as Redhill and furniture as long as she remains single


To my single children Samuel, Henry, Esther, Ann, Wesley, Francis - a home where 1 now reside as long as Nancy Elsey lives and after her death to be divided between children


Witness: William H. Somers, James R. Willing, James A. J. Willing 29 September 1868


F:15 Elijah Laws of (Worcester)*


25 February 1854


To son John W. Laws - real estate except the land purchased of Warner Station


To son Noah. - $300 at age twenty-one and son John's part of he dies without issue and land purchased of Warner Station


To daughters Gertrude Laws, Charlotte M. Laws, Margaret E. Laws, Priscilla D. Laws - $150 each at age twenty-one Executor: son John Witness: Elisha Holloway, William Shockley, George Walston Codicil to above


27 August 1861


To daughters Sarah Parsons, Mary J. Brittingham, Claressa Adkins, Leurane Truitt - $50 each Witness: Theodore Morris, Elijah W. Morris


12 October 1868 Then came


*original county - will made before the creation of Wicomico


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F:8 Daniel Dashiell 8 June 1868 To nephew Edgar J. Dashiell - 250 acres being northern part of plantation Dashiell's Regulation where I now live. This adjoins the land of William Harris, James Phillips, and William Catlin beginning in the swamp and running to Wetipquin Neck


To niece Elizabeth White wife of Asa White - balance of real estate To nephew Wesley A. Dashiell - $300


To nephew Peter Dashiell - $300 To nephew William Francis Dashiell - $300 Executor: Edgar J. Dashiell Witness: Ware Winright, John W. Daugherty, George Riall 17 June 1868 Then came


F:10 Bassitt Rain of (Worcester)* 1 May 1867


To wife Julia - whole income from my lands for 4 years and her dower i lands


To sons John G., Henry, Lamber, Parker S., and daughter Rachel A. B. Rain - $70 each Executor: Julia A. Rain Witness: John M. Jones, John T. Jones, Elijah M. Lewis 8 July 1868 Then came


F:11 Ananias Dennis 15 July 1868 To son John Westly Dennis - $10


To daughter Mary wife of John W. Dennis of Johnson - $10


To son Johnathan Dennis - $10 To son Benjamin Dennis - $10


To son Minos Dennis - $10


To son Garrettson Dennis - $10


To son Levi Dennis - land that was given to me by the last will and testament of my father Henry Dennis called Henry Last Choice. Also land obtained from Garrettson Gordy being the land where my said son now resides


To daughters Margaret Elizabeth and Lavinia Dennis - tract where I now reside called John's Lot containing 50 acres Executor: Edward H. Williams Witness: Garettson Gordy, Levi D. Gordy, Levi Duncan 22 July 1868 Then came


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F:18 Joshua Holloway Senior


21 October 1867


To son Elijah - 25 cents and no more


To son Joshua - 25 cents and no more To son Mordecai - 25 cents and no more To son Elisha - 25 cents and no more


To daughter Mary wife of Benjamin Farlow - 25 cents and no more


To Elizabeth wife of Lemor Parsons - $25 and no more To Mary E. wife of Daniel Dennis - $25


To Sarah Farlow wife of James Farlow - $25


To Nancy wife of Ebenezer Dennis - $25


To Joshua Farlow - $25


To Mary R. Truitt daughter of Elijah J. Truitt - $25


To Rosena Truitt daughter if Elijah J. Truitt - $25


To Lursia Truitt daughter of Elijah J. Truitt - $25 To the six surviving children of my deceased daughter Hannah J. Parsons (Elizabeth wife of William Jones, Priscilla wife of James Givens, Ann Mariah Parsons, George W. Parsons, Daniel J. Parsons, and Joshua J. Parsons) - 1/2 of remainder of personal estate


To the heirs of my deceased daughter Levicia Truitt (Mary Jane wife of George Ward, Elijah Truitt, Sally E. wife of Thomas Jones, Priscilla Ann wife of William West, Elisha S.Truitt, and the children of Hannah Perdue wife of Lambert Perdue) - 1/2 of remainder of personal estate with the Perdue children's portion in the hands of Elijah J. Truitt Executor: Elijah Holloway


Witness: Robert Staton, Thomas A. Walston, James Driskel


24 October 1868 Then came


F:20


Beauchamp Howard (Somerset)*


23 June 1865


To eldest son Joseph H. - plantation where he now lives which belonged to his grandfather Joseph Howard To second son Hiriam H. - plantation where he now lives which I bought of Perry O. Nelson


To third son Louther J. _ land I bought of Luther Kennerly and Alfred English


To fourth son Azariah B. - dwelling plantation and the land bought at the trustee sale of the heirs of Thomas Cooper


To my four sons - property known as The Double Mills


To wife Mahala - her dower and the horse bought of William Giles and the carriage To daughter Sally Bayly - $100 To John W. Bayly son of Sarah - $50 To daughter Mary Howard - $150


To daughter Margaret Howard - $75 To daughter Rachel Howard - $100


To granddaughter Mary M. Howard - $25 Executor: Mahala Howard, Azariah Howard Witness: Richard P. Darby, Benjamin Gravenor, William Darby 29 October 1868 Then came


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F:22 Matthias Willing (Somerset)*


26 December 1849


To Maria Douglass - $50


To Negro man Stephen - his freedom and yoke of oxen, cart, canoe and sails. Pair of oyster rakes, crosscut saw, ax, hand saw, drawing knife


To nephew Samuel White Senior - remainder of estate Executor: nephew Samuel White


Witness: George Wainwright, John A. Scarborough, Jesse Wainwright


1 December 1868 Then came Henry J. White administer of the estate of Samuel White


F:23 Severn D. Bradley 12 October 1868


To youngest son George P. - farm whereon I live being the land purchased of Samuel Jackson and called Clover Field containing 97 acres


To sons Ferdinand and Samuel - $100 each and farm if George dies without issue and all my portion of my father's estate


To wife Elizabeth - personal property


To George Jackson son of Peter - $1


To Mary Jane wife of Peter Jackson- $1


To Virginia daughter of Peter Jackson - $1


To Mary Jane daughter of Peter Jackson - $1


To daughter Phillis W. Bradley - $1 To daughter Margaret Evans - $1


To daughter Isabella Phillips - $1


To daughter Delilah Jackson - $1


Executor: son George and James Gilliss Witness: James Gilliss, Vardine W. Bradley, Thomas B. Taylor 19 January 1869 Then came


F:24 Jesse Parks 3 January 1869


To granddaughter Lidia Parks daughter of my deceased son Jesse - $100 when she is eighteen To wife Hannah and sons Thomas J. and John W. - remainder of estate


Executor: Thomas J. Parks Witness: John Turner, William Langrall, George A. C. Walter 19 January 1869 Then came


*original county - will made before the creation of Wicomico


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F:26 George E. R.J. Collier (Somerset)*


18 December 1868


To son George - farm where I live on the east side of the Nanticoke River called Mount Hope extending back from the river to the road leading from White Haven to Nanticoke Point and 16 acres of Turnstile purchased of William R. Jackson, John W. Jones and Margaret E. Jones and all the notes of hand. Also my whole library and set of dental instruments


To wife and daughter Margaret E. Jackson, William P. Collier, Levin M. V. B. Collier - proceeds from sale of known as the Tyaskin farm


To wife Eleanor - bed and furniture and her dower


To son William P. - his part to be given as my executors think he needs it


Executor: George E. R. J. Collier, Jesse Wainwright


Witness: George H. Woolford, George Riall, Robert Walter 23 January 1869 Then came


F:27 Elizabeth Gordy 12 December 1868


A schedule of household good and notes given by Elizabeth Gordy to her children


To daughter S.A. Phillips - note from James A. Venables for $200 and household goods


To son James Vincent - note from T.W. Seabraze for $300, note from C.W. Dennis for $300, note from R.H. Adkins for $140


To sons David Vincent and Harvey Vincent - $300


Executor: E.L. Wailes Witness: Joshua Johnson 23 February 1869 Then came


F:28 John McDaniel


19 October 1868


To nephew Samuel Dryden of Worcester - bed and furniture $100


To housekeeper Elizabeth McDaniel - bed and furniture, cupboard, six silver tea spoons, $100


To trustees of the Presbyterian Church of Salisbury - rail road certificate


To nephew Robert H. Dryden - bed and furniture, 6 cane-bottom chairs, rocking chair


Executor: Robert H. Dryden


Witness: J. Hopkins Tarr, Levin Williams, Jesse Simms 27 April 1869 Then came


F:29 Charles Ellis 13 April 1869


To son John Henry Ellis - land where I now live having already deeded him the part over the ditch that runs from the county road to Mr. A. P. Beathards provided that my wife Eliza and daughter Henny and Henny's children will have use of the house


To the heirs of daughter Mary E. Perdue deceased - $50


To daughter Martha Ellis wife of Purnell Ellis - $50


To daughter Henny Shockley - $50 Executor: son John


Witness: James Duncan, Noah Pennewell, Wally A. P. Jones 20 April 1869 Then came


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F:3] James Madison Shockley


5 March 1869


To wife Ellen - property for life


To Job Thomas Parks, Anna Maria Dykes, Mary Ellen Anderson, Sarah Dykes wife of William - estate after wife's death. In case Mary Ellen Anderson should marry before the death of my wife, then I devise her share to her children Sallie Anderson and George Anna Anderson Executor: James Dykes of P.


Witness: W.W Gordy, John Evans, Thomas Humphrey


11 May 1869 Then came


F:32 Joseph A. Disharoon 14 April 1869


To wife Sally E. - estate for life


To children - estate after wife's death Executor: wife and her father Henry J. Dashiell Witness: George W. Todd, John A. Hitch, Mary Davis 11 May 1869 Then came


F:33 Daniel Foskey


21 May 1869


To son Samuel E. - that part of the farm purchased of William H. Jackson which is on the east side of line beginning separating the farm from that of Isaac B. Jackson, running with the fence to the private road leading from the farm house to Delmar and through the woods to the line of Jesse Davis To son Daniel H. - that part on the west side of the above line


To daughters Mary Catherine Foskey and Nancy Jane Hearn - the farm where I now live containing 331 acres including all the land owned by James Foskey except that conveyed to James Foskey in the division of said land and also the tract called Contentment and Jackson Disappointment and the land bought of Gilliss Figgs


That my executors " pay to my wife the note or bill obligatory which she now holds against me for one hundred dollars"


That land bought from Spicer M. White and his wife Elizabeth containing 97 acres be sold for debts To wife Sally W. and my four children - personal estate Executor: Samuel E. Foskey and Daniel H. Foskey Witness: James B. Foskey, Lovey C.C Smith, Samuel A. Graham 22 June 1869 Then came


F:35 Littleton Jenkins 24 May 1869 To wife Sarah Jane - all property for life To Frank Jenkins - estate after wife's death Executor: friend William Birckhead Witness: Lemuel Malone, Robert E. Purnell, Stephen P. Toadvine 6 July 1869 Then came


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F:36 Charles Horsey 28 July 1868 To wife Milcah - all property Witness: James Gilliss, Elisha P. Bennett, Lucien M. Bradley 28 July 1869 Then came


F:37


Samuel Weatherly ( Somerset)* 23 November 1865


To daughters Elizabeth and Mary Weatherly - my part of tract Small Spot, sheep, bed and furniture, spinning wheel, mantel clock, floor carpet To six children - personal estate Executor: Robert M. Elzey Witness: Robert Twilley, Isaac Taylor, Thomas Knowles 28 July 1869 Then came


F:38 Isaac J.Lewis


9 August 1869


That farm where Theodore Carey now lives to be sold and the land near St. Polls Church about where the stream mill now stands be sold To wife Martha and children - remainder of estate Executor: James Duncan Witness: William Truitt, Ananias B. Gray, James C. Littleton 24 August 1869 Then came


F:40 Joseph Hearn (Worcester)* 8 May 1866


To eldest son Brinkley - the farm purchased of Henry Mills in 1849 and the farm where Brinkley now lives To son Samuel - farm bought at public sale from Thomas Smith administrator of the estate of Henry Mills which is called the Herron Place and contains about 135 acres


To youngest son Elijah S. - farm where I now live bought of Peter G. Hearn being about 207 acres To daughter Irena Hearn - $500


Executor: wife Sally and son Elijah


Witness: Ebenezer White, George H. Jackson, William A. Olliphant 7 September 1869 Then came


F:41 James G. Huffington 28 August 1869 To sisters Hester and Rutah Huffington - all property Witness: John W. Turpin, Lambert H. Cooper, W. C. Marsters 24 September 1869 Then came


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F:42 Jesse T. Bratten 7 December 1869 To wife Sarah Margaret - $400 in cash, bed and furniture


To mother Anna wife of Jesse - rest of estate Executor: brother William B. Bratten Witness: Billy T. Farlow, James W. Davis, Lemuel B. Duncan 4 January 1870 Then came


F:44 Nancy Bennett 14 October 1869


To grandson Noah S. Bennett - table and quilt


To grandson George W. Bennett - blue chest, iron pot


To granddaughter Mary Bennett - bed and furniture and quilt To granddaughter Martha E. Bennett - looking glass, quilt


To grandson Henry W. Taylor - quilt, set of cups and saucers


To granddaughter Mary E. Taylor - quilt


To grandson Elisha Taylor - quilt


To granddaughter Letictia E. Taylor - quilt


To granddaughter idy M. Bennett - corner cupboard


To granddaughter Amanda Bennett - bureau To grandson William Bennett - six plates


To grandson Oliver Bennett - pitcher


To granddaughter Laura Bennett - blue and white counterpain To son James Bennett - carriage


To granddaughter Nancy Bennett - counterpain To sons Levin, James, Elisha, and William Bennett - remainder


To daughters Eleanor Gravenor and Hester Taylor - wearing apparel Executor: son Elisha


Witness: Thomas B. Taylor, William Wilson, Lambert H. Cooper 4 January 1870 Then came


F:45 Lemuel Mills ( Somerset)* 1 March 1867


To oldest son George - lot of ground, part of the tract where I now live, starting at the ditch leading from the county road and emptying into the southern fork of Donoho Mill Pond and thence south to the line of Daniel Hearn and containing 3 acres


To second son Stephen - also a lot from the above


To third son Rufus - $50


To wife Mary - remainder of land for her land and then to divided among all my children Executor: wife Mary Witness: E. M. Waller, Handy J. Fowler, John S. Goslee 1 March 1870 Then came


*original county - will made before the creation of Wicomico


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F:47 Matthias Toadvine 12 January 1869


To wife Lucreatia A. - 1/3 of the farm where 1 now live purchased of the heirs of Richard H. Handy and personal property


To my four children who are now living and my grandson; Eleanor Richardson, Alexander Toadvine, Aurelia H. Fowler, Margaret G. Moore, and grandson Marion T. Hargis son of my deceased daughter Caroline C. Hargis - 2/3 of farm and if farm is sold 1/4 acres to be reserved for grave yard


Executor: son Alexander


Witness: W. Birckhead, Joshua Johnson, Daniel J. Holloway 10 March 1870 Then came


Codicil to above will


2 February 1869


That son Alexander shall act as guardian to my grandchildren here named; Edward Fowler, Henry L. Fowler, Claude Fowler and Lucretia Fowler and that he should hold in trust all property devised to their mother


Aurelia


Witness: Joshua Johnson, Levin Dorman


15 March 1870 Then came


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Sarah D. J. Smith wife of Samuel


23 March 1870


To husband Samuel - all that tract in Nutter's District Wicomico County containing 60 acres which 1 bought of my mother Loda Jenkins




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