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Will of Thomas Lamping
Somerset County, Maryland · 1688
Contributor: This transcription was contributed to Somerset County MDGenWeb by Ed Smith.
Transcription note: The text below is presented as supplied. Original spelling, capitalization, punctuation, abbreviations, bracketed notes, and uncertain readings have been retained.
Transcription
In the name of the father and of the sun and of the Holy Ghost Amen. The
last will and testament of Thomas Lamping being in perfect sences I do
bequeath all my Reall and Personall Estate which I possess in my life time.
Unto my wife Elizabeth Lamping only my gun. I do bequeath to lit[???] son
Thomas Lamping a gun but it my son should die before he comes to age then
the gun of the value to be given unto my Daughter Annabelle, and I desire
that there may be a cow calf given unto my godson Peter Parker Jun. This
being my last will request which I desire, and have set my hand and seale
this ninth day of June 1687_____
Signed Sealed in the
Presence of us____
Peter Parker his
His [PP] mark Thomas [ X ] Lamping
{Seale}
William Tacit mark
John Foster
Memorandum that on the 15th day of October 1688 Came Wm. Tacit and did Make
oath that he did see Thomas Lamping sign and seale the within mentioned as
his last will and testament. The other two witnesses, tenet John Foster
and Peter Parker are departed out of this province and it is said they are
gone to Roanoke. As witness my hand_____ James Round
(Indorsement Intr: Lib 71 fol. 29)
Recorded in Liber EB No. 5 folio 147 ~
Test. Esme Bayly Regr. W.S.C.