Person:Samuel Cave (3)

Susanna to have Negro man "Ned" Negro wench "Wineford" Negro girl "Nancy" Negro boy "Charles" Jane to have Negro woman "Nell" "Negro boys "Ben" '`Tom" "Frank" Negro girl "Lucy"

Susanna and Jane each to have I feather bed and furn.

Jane to have 2 cows and calves, 2 ewes and lambs, 1 desk in testator's dwelling house -Negro "Len" to testator's three daughters and to be valued by 2 neighbors and the child who pays 2/3rds of the value to her.

Elizabeth Cave --wife

testator reserves for her the right to live her natural life on testator's lands

to hold and possess the property left to testator's daughters—except for Negro "Willile to Mary, for her natural life

to have the residue of the estate for herself and daughters while they live single and at her decease or should she see it proper to devise, then to testator's three daughters

Mary Thomas -daughter

-testator states that the land left to daughters Susanna and Jane were given to them in consequence of any disobedience on Mary's part, but since her marriage to Caleb Thomas is now in an "easy & comfortable way of Living" and having heretofore made some provision for her and her children and with the hope that What is given hereafter to her childrcn is received as an equivalent for her share of the estate and the lands given to testator's other daughters "which in fact is of little value but may serve as a Home to my two Single and helpless daughters

to have Negro fellow "Will" in lieu of the one herefore given her which she lost by lightening.

to have the weaving loom now in her possession

Elizabeth Thomas —granddaughter -to have Negro boy "John"

Suckey Thomas --granddaughter -to have Negro girl "Clarissa"

Witnesses: James Wharfe, William Johnson, Rin.do Johnson

Codicil to the will:

Samuel Cave Moran --grandson (son of daughter Jane who married John Moran) -whereas since the writing of the will, testator purchased land from Samuel Judson Coolidge being a tract of land or parcel called "Doves Perch" and "Dove's Next" and "Coleing's Lott" cont 123 acres--to have after the decease of testator's widow

-to have Negro children "Hannah" daughter of '`Nell" who was bequeathed to daughter Jane and also to have Negro "Charles'. son of "Nell' born since making the will 10/07/1800

Codicil to the will:

Jane Moran --daughter

-to have Negro man "Len" as testator thinks -it but right to let my Daughter Jane. now Jane Moran wife of John Moran (who has lived with me almost constantly and who has undergone much fatiegue with me during my long indisposition and ever Performed the Duties of an affectionate Child with great Chcartullness and apparent Satisfaction)"

2 December 1801

Witnesses' William C. Rawlings, Wilson C. Rawlings

Then came: R inaldo Johnson

Note: the testator signed the will in his own hand

[Source: Prince George's County MD Will Book Liber T No. #1; 1797-1803]

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