|
|
- H. Charles McKeil Flowers1730 - Bet 1786 & 1787
- W. Pricilla (add)
- Lambert Flowers1765 - 1827
Facts and Events
References
- ↑ Ancestry.com. Sussex County, Delaware Probate Records, 1680-1800. (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2000.Original data - Calendar of Sussex County, Delaware Probate Records, 1680-1800. Georgetown, DE: Public Archives Commission, 1964.Original data: Calendar of Sussex County, Delaware Pro).
- Ancestry Family Trees. (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.)
Ancestry Family Trees.
- ↑ Will [1]
Source, Sussex County, Delaware Probate Records 1680-1800.
Transcript provided by Phil and Gale Todd, and posted online at Ancestry.com
Will Made Date: 14 Sep 1786
Will Probate Date: 05 Jan 1787
Will Book: Arch. vol. A71; Reg. of Wills, Liber D Page: 208-209; folio 129
In the name of God Amen this 14th day of September 1786, I Charles McKeel Flowers of Sussex County, Delaware, being sick and weak of body, but of perfect mind and memory. Thanks be to almighty God for the same and calling to mind the morality of my body, knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die. Do make and ordain this my last will and testament in manner fain as follows vis. Principally and first of all I give and recommend my soul unto the hands of the Almighty God that gave it, and my body I recommit to the ground to be buried in a Christian like manner and decent manner at the discretion of my Executors and as to what worldly goods it has pleased Almighty God to bless me with in this life.
I give one dispose of the some in the following manner:
I give and bequeath unto my well beloved wife, Priscilla Flowers. One third part of all my lands during her natural life and after her death to be disposed of as follows:
I give and bequeath unto my eldest son Lambert Flowers, one grown cow and calf and all my wearing apparel and no more of my Estate.
I give and bequeath unto my second son Charles Flowers my dwelling plantation with all my lands, rights, titles, interest, and benefits there unto belonging to him and his heirs forever and no more.
I give and bequeath unto my wife Priscilla Flowers one bay mare to her and her heirs forever and all the remaining part of my estate after my just debts and funeral charges is settled.
I desire should be applied to the use and support of my wife and my five youngest children vis. Rhoda Flowers, Nelly Flowers, Charles Flowers, Revel Flowers, and John Flowers, and I do hereby appoint and constitute my wife Priscilla Flowers and my trusty friend Jesse Cannon to be my whole and sole Executors of this my last will and testament ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last will and testament, signed, sealed and pronounced by the said Charles McKeel Flowers and in the presents of Henry Flowers, Staughton Tull, John Tull.
Charles McKeel Flowers
his mark
|
|
