Person:Ignatius Hagan (1)

WILL OF IGNATIUS HAGAN

In the name of God Amen. I Ignatius Hagan of Charles County in the Province of Maryland being infirm of body but in sound and perfect memory do make this my last will and testament as follows... INPRIMIS: I bequeath my soul to God who gave it to me my body to the earth after my departure to be decently buried at the charge of my estate and discretion of my executors hereafter named. ITEM I will that my just debts and funeral charges be first paid. ITEM I nominate constitute and ordain my loving wife Magdalen Hagan whole and sole executrix of this my last will and testament to whom my aforesaid Magdalen Hagan I give and bequeath the plantation I now dwell upon and all of my land adjoining to it during her natural life and after her decease to my loving son William Hagan to him and his heirs forever, Also I give and bequeath unto my aforesaid wife Magdalen Hagan one hundred acres of land out of tract of land called Good Intent and to take the said hundred acres of land on the north side of a road called Parran Road and include the new plantation I now settled there to have the use of it as long as she lives a widow and afterward to my loving son Joseph Hagan to him and his heirs forever. ITEM I give and bequeath unto my loving son Thomas Hagan the plantation he now dwells upon with one hundred acres of land joining to it which I bought of John Baggot to him and his heirs forever. ITEM I give and bequeath unto my son Joseph Hagan before named all the remaining part of my land which I hold in land called Good Intent to him and his heirs forever. ITEM I give and bequeath unto my loving son James Hagan one cow and calf. ITEM I give and bequeath unto my loving daughters Mary Hagan and Sarah Hagan one negroe girl called Sue. ITEM I give and bequeath unto my loving daughter Elizabeth Speak one shilling sterling. ITEM I give and bequeath unto my loving daughter Eleanor Whealor one shilling sterling. ITEM I give and bequeath unto my loving daughter Ann Blanford one shilling sterling. ITEM I give and bequeath unto my loving wife Magdalen Hagan all the remaining part of my personal estate. I do ordain this present will to be my last will and testament in witness whereof I have set my hand and fixed my seal this 25th day of March 1761. his Signed sealed in the Ignatius Hagan presence of us mark James Hagan Ignatius Smith Basil Hagan

WILL LIBER 33: FF 421 CHARLES CO. MD. PROBATED OCT. 15 1765

--In the thirteen British colonies that became the United States in 1776, British money was often in circulation. Each colony issued its own paper money, with pounds, shillings, and pence used as the standard units of account. Some coins were minted in the colonies, such as the 1652 pine-tree shilling in the province of Massachusetts Bay. After the United States adopted the dollar as its unit of currency and accepted the gold standard, one British shilling was worth 24 U.S. cents. Due to ongoing shortages of U.S. coins in some regions, shillings continued to circulate well into the 1800s.

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Charles County Land Record Book S#3, 1770-1775; Page 645. Nov 2, 1774 from John Hagan of Fairfax County, Virginia, bricklayer, to Richard Edelin, son of Philip, of CC, planter, for 50 £ and for divers other good causes, all the remaining part of that tract of land in CC that sd Richard has now in possession, called Lanternam, "the dwelling plantation of my father, Ignatius Hagan", containing about 65 acres. Signed - John (+ his mark) Hagon. Wit - Philip Briscoe*, Sm Briscoe*. Mary Hagan, wife to the sd John Hagan, relinquished her right of dower. Recorded Nov 8, 1774.