Will of Charlotte Smith

. In the name of God, Amen I Charlotte Smith of Somerset County, in the State of Maryland, being sick and weak in body but of sound and disposing mind, memory and understanding considering the certainty of death and the uncertainty of the time thereof, and being desirous to settle my worldly affairs and thereby be the better prepared to leave this world when it shall please God to call me hence, do therefore make and publish this my last will and testament, in manner and form following that is to say - First and principally I commit my soul into the hands of Almighty God and my body to the earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my executor herein after named and after my debts and funeral charges are paid I devise and bequeath as follows - Item. I give and devise unto Susan Anne my eldest daughter one negro girl named Flora to her the said Susan and her heirs and assigns forever - Item I give and devise unto Sarah Ann my second daughter one negro boy James to her the said Sarah and her heirs forever - Item I give and bequeath unto my two sons, Elias and Benjamin, and James Parker, one hundred dollars each. Item I devise and bequeath all the rest and residue of my estate, both real and personal to be sold (my negroes excepted) and the proceeds of such sale to be equally divided among my sons Elias, Benjamin, and James Parker and two daughters Susan Anne and Sarah Ann in equal portions share and share alike - And lastly, I do hereby constitute and appoint Samuel S. Boggs to be the sole Executor of this my last will and testament; revoking and annulling all former wills by me heretofore made, ratifying and confirming this and none other, to be my last Will and Testament. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this third day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty three - Signed, sealed, published and declared by Charlotte Smith the above named testatrix as and for her last Will and testament in the presence of us, who at her request in her presence and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as witnesses thereto Charlotte Smith (Seal) Margaret I Milbourne - T. S. Gibbons - Sarah B Beauchamp. We further certify that the words or sentences between the twentieth and twenty first lines of the first page was interlined before the execution of the above will. Margaret I Milbourne. T. S. Gibbons - Sarah B Beauchamp. Somerset County, to wit: August the 17th day 1848 - Then came Samuel S. Boggs, and made Oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God, that the foregoing instrument of writing is the true and whole last will and testament of Charlotte Smith, late of Somerset County, deceased, that hath come to his hands or possession & that he doth not know of any other - Before James Polk Reg W.S.Co. Somerset County, to wiAt: - August the 17th day 1848 - Then came Margaret I Milbourne, and Theodore S Gibbons, two of the subscribing witnesses to the foregoing last will and Testament of Charlotte Smith, late of Somerset County, deceased, and severally made Oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God, that they did see the Testatrix therein named, sign and seal this will, and that they heard her publish, pronounce and declare the same to be her last Will and Testament; that at the time of her so doing she was to the best of each of their apprehensions of sound and disposing mind, memory and understanding, capable of executing a valid contract; and that they respectively subscribed their names as witnesses to this will in the presence and at the request of the Testatrix and in the presence of each other. They further deposed that they saw Sarah B Beauchamp subscribe her name as a witness to this will in the presence and at the request of the Testatrix Recorded in Liber J.P. No. 5. folio 60. Before James Polk Reg W.S.Co. Test James Polk Reg W.S.Co.