John Albaugh. Sr.
Will of John Albaugh, Sr.
John Albaugh, Executor
Liber RB #1, Folio 167, March 23, 1811
FHC Film #14021
In The Name of God Amen I John Albaugh Senior of Frederick County and state of Maryland being in perfect health of Body and of sound and disposing mind memory and understanding considering the certainty of death and the uncertainty of the time there of 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 home 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 here in after named
Secondly it is my will and desire that after my Decease all my real and personal Estate is to be sold by Executor herein after named to the best advantage the Real Estate consisting of Two hundred and two Acres of Land more or less called the resurvey on Chestnut Level l and to be conveyed by a good and Lawfull Deed by my Executor herein after named and after my Just Debts and funeral charges are paid the money arising out of the sales of my Estate is to be Equally divided amongst all my children namely William Albaugh, Philip Albaugh, heirs, Anna Dim Comfer, John Albaugh, Mary Steel, Julian Albaugh, Susannah Eader, Daniel Albaugh, Elisabeth Roads & Catharine Smith all to have Share and share alike the heirs of Philip Albaugh are to have but one share and that to be Equally divided among them Share and Share alike
And Lastly I constitute and appoint my beloved son John Albaugh to be 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 twenty fourth day of April Eighteen hundred and ten
Signed Sealed Published and Declared by
John
Albaugh (Seal)
the above named John Albaugh Senr.
(mark)
Testator as and for his last will and Testament in the presence of us who at the request in his presence and in the presence of each Other have Subscribed our names as Witnesses thereto Daniel Etzler, Rinehart Waltz, Abm Albaugh
Frederick County to wit:
On the 23rd day of March 1811 Then came
John Albaugh and made Oath on the holy Evangels of Almighty God that the foregoing
Instrument of writing is the true whole will and Testament of John Albaugh Senr. late of
Frederick County Deceased that hath cometh to his hands and possession and that he Doth
not know of any other.
Rich Butler Regr.
Frederick County to wit:
On the 23rd day of March 1811 then came
Daniel Etzler & Rinehart Waltz two of the Subscribing witnesses to the foregoing and
Annoxed last will and Testament of John Albaugh Senr. late of Frederick County Deceased
and made Oath on the holy Evangels of Almighty god that they did see the Testator therein
named Sign & seal this will that 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 His best of
their apprehensions of a sound and Disposing mind memory and understanding that they
respectively Subscribed their names as witnessed to this will in the presence and at the
request of the Testator and all in the presence of each other
Rich
Butler Regr.
John Albaugh for John Albaugh, Sr.,
March 23, 1811
Administrator Bonds, Liber HS, Pg 369, F#14063
Maryland, SS.
Know all men by these presents that we John Albaugh, Daniel Albaugh & Daniel Etzler all of Frederick County are held and firmly bound unto the State of Maryland in the Just and full sum of Eighteen hundred pounds current money. To which payment well and truly to be made and done we bind ourselves and every of us our and every of our heirs, Executors and Administrators in the whole and for the whole jointly and Severally firmly by those presents sealed with our seals and dated this 23rd day of March 1811.
The condition of the above obligation is such that if the above bounder John Albaugh shall well and truly perform the office of Executor of John Albaugh, Sen., late of Frederick County deceased according to Law and shall in all respects discharge the duties of him requires by law as Executor aforesaid without any injury of damage to any person interested in the faithfull performance of the said office then the above obligation to be void it is otherwise to be and remain in full force & virtue in law
Jofanne Olbough (seal)
Signed Sealed & Delivered}
Daniel Albaugh (seal)
In the presence of }
Daniel Etzler (seal)
Rich Butler }