Person:Mary Maxey (11)

BIOGRAPHY: Mary M Maxey (daughter of Walter Justinian Maxey and Mary Netherland)1202, 1203 was born Bet. 1746 - 1756 in Goochland Co., Virginia1204, and died date unknown.

DEATH: http://www.rootsweb.com/~alaag/adays.html Notes for Mary M Maxey: Will of Mary M Aday Mary M Aday, deceased, Last Will & Testament. In the name of God amen. I Mary M. Aday of the County of Madison, State of Alabama, being of sound mind and memory, but weak and inform of body on account of my advanced age and present sickness and being mindful of my mortality, do this 7th day of April in the year of our Lord 1830, make and publish this my last Will and Testament in manner and form following First- I desire to be decently and privately buried without any funeral pomp an with as little expense as may be.

Secondly- I give and bequest all the estate of which I am possessed, being a Negro girl named Judeth and about 20 years of age, and her only child named George about 12 months of age, to my grandchildren, the children of Levy Aday, deceased, to wit: Nancy F. Winn, Mary M. Trotman, John F. Aday, Fanny Ann Davis, Jeptheah G. Aday and Francis M. Aday all the legitimate children of my son Levy Aday, deceased, upon the following conditions, restrictions and limitations, that is that the said Negro girl and child and her future increase shall be controlled and managed by my executor, either by hiring out or retaining her himself with her increase for the support and maintenance of the two youngest children, to wit: Jeptheah G. Aday and Francis M. Aday until they shall arrive at the age of 21 years at which time I desire said Negro girl and all her increase at that time be equally divided among the above mentioned children, if possible, by retaining her and her children among said children and if not I desire her and her children to be sold and the profits or proceeds of such to be equally divided among the afore said legatees and lastly I do hereby constitute and appoint my grandson, John F. Aday, executor of this my last Will and Testament hereby revoking all other or former wills or testaments, by me heretofore made. In witness whereof I have set my hand and affixed my seal this day and year before written.

Mary M. Aday (seal).x- her mark. executed June 3, 1831.