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Facts and Events
Will of John Caldwell
- 11 July 1747
- CALDWELL, JOHN, Somerset Co.
- The money due from Capt. George Parris & Dr. Jackson . . . my of the sloop to be sold & the money applied to my debts.
- To son Joshua Caldwell, 1 sh. sterl.
- To son John Caldwell, my large looking glass & 4000 feet of inch plank.
- To my 2 sons-in-law, William Venable & Joseph Scroggen, in full of the portions of their wives, Mary Venable & Sarah Scroggen, the use of my saw mill to saw 12,000 feet of plank each.
- To wife, Mary Caldwell, for widhood, all my houses about my mills.
- To my youngest son, Samuel Caldwell, when he is free from his master, Robert Mills, necessary proceeds from the mills, & on the mar. or d. of his mother, when he is 2, the lands where I now live, my right in Salsberry, & p. p.; if he d. s. p., to son John Caldwell.
- To grdson John Handy, Maccoughs House (my landing house) & 40 sq. ft. on the main street between Longos House & the Quarter where Ammey lives.
- To John Handy & Mary Handy, their portions out of the profit of the mills.
- Trustees: Wm. Venables & Joseph Scroggen, to be advised by Col. Robert King & Capt. Henry Ballard.
- 11 July 1747 Extrs: wife, Mary, & son Samuel Caldwell.
- Witn: Joshua Porter, Nick. Fountain, Jonathan Shockley, William Winder.
- 19 Aug. 1747, sworn to by Porter, Fountain, & Winder.
- [Abstracts of Maryland Wills, Liber 25, folio 131]
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