Will of Josiah Warwick

In the Name of God Amen, I Josiah Warwick being week in body but of sound disposing mind and memory and knowing the certainty of Death and the uncertainty of the time when, and being desirous for to settle my worldly affairs, and thereby to be the better prepared to leave this world when it shall please God, to call me do constitute and appoint this my last will and Testament revoking all wills heretofore made by me as follows, that is to say first I commit my sole to God that gave it to me and my body to be decently buried by my Executors hereafter Named, that is to say after my just Debts and funeral charges being paid as followers — First my will is that my wife Charlotty have ye one third part of my Estate to her and her heirs forever — 2dly My will is that my son Levin Warwick be and remain under the care of my trusty friend Levin Wilson and his part of my Estate until he arrives to the Age of twenty one Years — 3dly my will is that my trusty friend Henry Jackson have the whole and sole power of my son Josiah Warwick until he comes to the age of twenty one Years, And lastly do appoint my friend Henry Jackson my whole and sole Executor of this my last Will and Testament revoking all other Wills heretofore made by me Given under my hand and seale this 25th day of Jan y 1790 — Signed in presents of us — Josiah Warwick (Seal) L Woolford, Levin Woolford Junr, John (his X mark) Luckart February the 8th day 1791 Then came Henry Jackson Esquire & made Oath on the holy Evangels of Almighty God that the within Instrument of Writing is the true & whole last Will and Testament of Josiah Warwick late of Somerset County deceased that hath come to his hands or possession & that he doth not know of any other before Esme Bayly Reg W S C February the 8th day 1791 Then came Levin Woolford Senior & Levin Woolford Junr two of the subscribing Witnesses to the within last will & Testament of Josiah Warwick late of Somerset County deceased & severally made Oath on the holy Evangels of Almighty God that they did see the Testator within Named sign & seal this Will and that they heard him publish pronounce and declare the same to be his last Will & Testament and at the time of his so doing he was to the best of each of their apprehensions of sound and dis =posing mind memory & understanding & that they did respectively subscribe their Names as Witnesses to the same in the presence & at the request of the Testator and in the presence of each other: And they further depose that they saw John Luckart subscribe his name as Witness to this Will in the presence and at the request of the Testator Josiah Warwick — before Esme Bayly RegWSC Recorded in Lib EB No 17 fol 138 & 139. — Test Esme Bayly RegWSC