Will of Rachel Hitch

In the name of our God Amen I Rachel Hitch of Somerset County in the province of Maryland being very sick and weak in body but in perfect mind and memory thanks be to the almighty God for it_____ Item I give and bequeath to Amy Dafter Leah Hitch my best bead and furniture and bead stead mat and corde____likewise I gave to my sister Leah Elgate Hitch my next best bed and furniture slat and matt and Corde____ likewise I gave to my Dafter Leah Hitch one cowe and yarlin and one horse and one pewter dish and three plates and Bason and____Likewise to my Sun Elgate Hitch one cowe and yarling and one woke of oxens one puter dish and three plates and one bason___ Likewise I gave my Negro man Jack to my Dafter Leah Hitch and this is my last will and testament hearby revoking all others and former Wills by me made in Testament whereof I have sett my hand and fixt seal this 10 day of December anno Domini 1771 Signed Sealed Published pronounced and delivered by the sade Rachel Hitch is her last Will and Testament in the presences of the subscribers Rachel [mark] Hitch Seal Dept. Joshua Hitch Richard Nicholson On the twentieth day of August one thousand seven hundred and seventy three Came Joshua Hitch and Richard Nicholson the two subscribing witnesses and made oath on the Holy Evangilist of Almighty God that they did see the Testator Rachel Hitch sign and seal the writhin Will and at that time the devise of her negro man Jack was gift t be equally divided between her Daughter Leah Hitch and her son Elgate Hitch and at the same time heard her acknowledge pronounce and declare the same to be her Last Will and Testament and at the time of her sodoing she was to the best their apprehansions of a sound disposing mind memory and understanding and that they subscribed their names as witnesses to the said Will and in the presence of the said testator. . . . . Sworn before Thos. Holbrook Deputy Commy. Of Somerset County Whereas my mother Rachel Hitch, in her last Will and Testament did devise the her negro Jack to be Equally divided between myself and my Brother Elgate Hitch and some time after the signing and sealing the said Will that on that part of the devise left to my Brother Elgate Hitch appeared to be seratihed [- ?]out, but do hereby consent and agree that my brother Elgate Hitch should have one half of the said negro Jack, as witness my hand this 17 day of August 1773 Thos. Holbrook Cabel Balding Leah Hitch Recorded in Liber EB no. 5 folio 18 Empr. Bayly Regs. WSC