In the Name of God Amen I Jacob Matthews of Frederick County in the province of Maryland Yeoman being old and infirm in Body but of perfect Mind & Memory thanks be given to God therefor, Calling unto Mind the Mortality of my Body and knowing it is appointed for all Men once to die, do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament, that is to say principally and first of all I give & commend my Soul unto the Hand of Almighty God that gave it & my Body I commend to the Earth to be buried in decent Christian Burial at the Discretion of my Executors, nothing doubting but at the general

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Resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mighty Power of God; and as touching such worldly estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bleſs me in this Life I give devise & dispose of the same in the following Manner and Form

First I give and bequeath unto Margaret my Dearly beloved Wife thirty pounds common money to be levied out of my Estate, and the full use and priviledge of my mansion House and all my Household Goods during her natural Life, also two Cows & two Sheep of her Choice and the full use and Priviledge of one third part of the Cellar, one half of the Garden & one third part of the Apple Orchard, and further I do will and appoint that my Son Conrade shall do the following things for her, Viz. he shall deliver to her every year during her natural Life ten Bushells of good clean Wheat, six Bushels of Rice & six Bushels of Indian Corn and carry it to the Mill & bring the Meal and stuff to her again. He shall make her part of the Apples into Cyder & put it into her part of the Cellar, he shall provide a Horse for her to ride when she shall have occasion to go abroad, he shall give her a young hog every year about Harvest and in the Fall a fatted hog of her Choice & thirty pounds of fat Beef. He shall provide for her Firewood & cut it fit for the Fire or Stove and also shall procure & provide for her as much Salt as she shall need. He shall feed her Sheep and Cows as he feeds his own and shall uphold the same Number to her during her natural Life, and further in Case she should be visited with a long Sickneſs he shall provide a Nurse for her, but all my Children to bear an equal part of this last Expense.

Also I give and bequeath unto my beloved Son George Matthews one Shilling Sterling over and above what I have already

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given him. Also I give and bequeath unto my beloved Henry Matthews, one Shilling Sterling over and above what I have already given him. Also I give and bequeath unto my beloved Son Conrade Matthews all that plantation or parcel of Land whereon I now dwell according to the following Metes & Bounds beginning

at the End of ninety perches on the Third line of my land called Jacob Trouble ended it likewise being the End of the third Line of John Matthews's part of said land and running thence North sixty nine Degrees West forty two perches North twenty two Degrees West sixty perches to the Beginning of fifty four acres part of the Resurvey on Peters Run one of the Originals, then by & with the outlines thereof revers'd the four following Courses, Viz., North forty three Degrees West twenty four perches, North thirteen deg^s. West thirty eight Perches South seventy Degrees West sixty perches South thirty eight Deg^s. East fifty six perches then South sixty two Deg^s. West ten perches to the End of the thirty first Course of Jacobs Trouble one of the Originals, then by & with the outlines thereof the two following Courses Viz South thirty deg. West one hundred perches South fifty two degrees West one hundred & thirty perches, to the End of the North forty one Degrees West two hundred & forty seven perches Line of Phillipe Matthews of said Jacobs Trouble ended then by and with said Line revers'd. South forty one Deg^s. East two hundred & sixty two perches to the End of ninety nine perches on the Eighteenth of said Jacobs Trouble ended thirty and ex with S Course North forty four Deg^s. East one hundred & sixty seven perches to the End of the sixth Course of the afor^sd John Matthews’s part of Jacobs Trouble ended thereby & with the out Lines thereof revers’d North thirty seven Degrees West seventy six perches then to the Beginning, containing three hundred & eighty six and

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an half acres of Land more or leſs, also all my Stock of Horses, Cattle, Sheep and Hogs, not excepted and reserved as before expreſsed to him his Heirs and aſsigns forever. Out of which & in consideration which Share or portion he shall pay one hundred & ninety three pounds, five shillings, in common Money to be paid in several payments at the rate of twenty pounds a year until all the whole is paid after my Decease unleſs he shall have paid some part before the whole to be divided amongst my Daughters as herin after expreſs’d. My beloved sons Phillip and Jno Matthews to have their parts or portions made over by Deeds of Conveyances so nothing here to be said of them unleſs a small part hereafter expreſs’d, and their respective parts to be paid for the use of my Daughters to be expreſs’d by Bonds.

Also I give and bequeath to my five Sons before named to them, their Heirs & aſsigns forever, a small Tract of Land called the Saw Mill Place, containing twenty acres of Land, and in case they agree to sell it the money to be equally divided amongst them, and my Executors are hereby as empowered to make good & sufficient conveyance to any purchaser.

Also I give and Bequeath unto my Beloved daughters Margaret Valentine, Magdalin Feeror, Catherine Stull, Mary Flower & Barbara Ambrose the whole of the Money above mentioned to be paid by my Son Conrade Matthews, and that secured to be paid by my Sons Phillip and John by Bonds to be equally divided amongst them to be paid by them by my Ex^rs. or such part thereof as shall be unpaid them at the time of my Decease.

And for the better understanding of this, my Last Will and Testament be it known my Will is, that my Copper Still and Veſsells thereto belonging shall be sold in order to make up

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the thirty pounds above mentioned to be given to my Wife and for so much as that falls short of making it up that <Cualures?> in my poſseſsion at the time of my decease shall be sold until it be made up, and further that my said Wife before or at the time of her Decease shall will or despose of the whole of her part as above mentioned as may seem good to her. And lastly, I do hereby constitute, make & ordain my Son Conrade Matthews and my Son-in-Law Henry Ferror my sole and only Executors of this my Last Will and Testament and I do hereby utterly disallow, Revoke, and disannul, all and every other former Testaments, Wills, Legacies and Bequests by me in any wise before named, Willed and Bequeathed, Ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my Last Will and Testament. In Witneſs whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal this twenty second Day of April Anno Dom. seventeen hundred and seventy six.

Jacob Matthews {SEAL}

Signed, Sealed, published, pronounced and declared by the s^d. Jacob Matthews as his Last Will and Testament in the presence of us who in his presence and in the prescence of each other have hereunto subscribed our Names.

William Blair, Conrade Hochersmith {his mark} KH, John Phares

Frederick County, June 20 ^th 1782

Then came Conrade Matthews & Henry Ferror and made oath on the holy Evangelists of Almighty God that the foregoing Instrument of Writing is the true and whole Will and Testament of Jacob Matthews late of Frederick County declared that hath came to their Hands or poſseſsion and they doth not

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know of any other.

George Murdock, Reg^r

Frederick County, June 20^th 1782

Then came Conrade Hochersmith, one of the Subscribing Witneſses to the foregoing Last Will and Testament of Jacob Matthews, late of Frederick County, Dec^d. and solemnly affirmed and declared that he did see the Testator thereon named sign and seal this Will, at the same time John Pharez, one other of the subscribing Witneſses made oath on the holy Evangelists of Almighty God that they did see the Testator therein named sign and seal this Will, and they heard him publish, pronounce and declare the same to be his Last Will and Testament, that at the Time of his so doing he was to the best of their Apprehensions of sound Disposing mind, Memory and Understanding, that they respectively subscribed their Names as Witneſses to this Will in the presence and at the Request of the Testator & they did also see William Blaire the other Subscribing Witneſs subscribe his Name as a Witneſs there to in the presence and at the Request of the Testator and in the presence of each other.

George Murdock, Reg^r.