Person:William Gay (34)

Will of William Gay

In the Name of God Amen, I William Gay of Kent County and State of Maryland being very Sick and Weak but of Sound disposing Mind and Memory do think Proper to make and Ordain this my last Will and Testament in manner and form following to Wit ___

Imprimis, My Body I Recomend to be decently Buryed by my Executrix hereafter mentioned ~ I Give and Bequeath unto my Loving Wife Rachel Gay all my Real Estate being the Plantation whereon I now live during her Natural life and after her Decease I Give and Bequeath all the afs.d Land — and Plantation being two thirds thereof which I Purchased of William and Mary Wilmer, and John and Sarah Haley unto my Beloved Son Robert Gay, his Heirs and Assigns forever, and my Will and desire is that my said Son Robert, shall yeald and Pay unto my other four Children Namely Sarah, Mary, John, and Ann Gay, the Sum of Fifty Pounds to each of my afs.d Children, to be paid in five equal Payments, the Sum of Ten Pounds Annually to each of them, untill the whole is Paid after my said Son — Robert shall Arive to the Age of twenty one years, or be in the Possession of the afsd. Land but if my said Son Robert should Die before he Arrives to the Age of twenty one years or be Possess’d of the afsd. Land then my Will and — desire is that the Land Bequeathed to my Son Robert, should Desend and go to my Son John his Heirs and Assigns forever he yealding and Paying unto my above Named Daughters the said Sum of Fifty Pounds as before mentioned to be paid by my Son Robert.

And my Will and desire further is that after my Just — Debts are paid and my Wifes thirds taken out, that the Remainding Part of my Estate be equally Divided among my five Children Sarah, Mary, Robert, John and Ann Gay,— I Give unto Negro Jeffry one small Grey Horse Called Crab— —

Lastly I do hereby Appoint and Constitute my Loving Wife Rachel Gay whole and Sole Executrix of this my last Will and Testament.

In Witness whereof I have hereunto Sett my Hand and Seale this thirtieth day of September An. Dom: One thousand Seven hundred, Eighty and Seven 1787 —

(signed) William Gay {Seale}

Signed Sealed Published Pronounced } and declared by Wm. Gay the Testator to be his last Will and Testament in the Presence of us,~ G. Wilson |S.G.|. Shadrack Bostick, Joseph Bothwell —

Nov.r 29.th 1787.

Then Came George Wilson|S.G.| Shadrach Bostick and Joseph Bothwell the three Subscribing Witnesses to the within last Will and testament of William Gay late of Kent County Deceased, and Severally made Oath on the Hoy Evangels of Almighty God that they did see the Testator therein Named Sign and Seal this Will, that they heard him Publish Pronounce and Declare the same to be his last Will and Testament, and that at the time of his so doing he was to the best of their Apprehensions of Sound disposing mind Memory and understanding and that they Respectively Subscribed their names as Witnesses to this Will, in the Presence, and at the Request of the Testator and in the Presence of each other —

Before Jn.o Nicholson Reg.r Wills for Kent County