Jane Steel Boyd's Will
Hi, Friends
and Relatives, Here is the will of Jane Steel Boyd, wife
of Hugh
Boyd, both of Cecil County, Maryland.
For those
researching the line which currently seems to end with
Alexander
Boyd, born 1715, there is hope. Eileen's sister was here
today
and is applying for his Will which is listed as available from
the
county clerk's office, Elkton, MD. and away we go......
Regards,
Chuck
& Eileen FitzGerald
cdfitzg1@juno.com
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1840
U.S. Census Index - 3rd District, Cecil County, MD, p. 247. lists
this
lady as head of household.
Her dates
were taken from her headstone in W. Nottingham Presbyterian
Churchyard
(9May1996).
There
is a Will listed for her in the Index for Cecil County, MD, Wills
&
Administrations 1674-1953. Since it is dated after 1850, it is not
filed
at the Maryland State Archives Hall of Records in Annapolis, MD,
but
at the seat of Cecil County, Elkton, Maryland, where a good, clear
photo
copy was obtained by her descendant, Mrs. Jean M. O'Brien Francis
during
a data-gathering visit there in 1998:
WILL OF JANE BOYD
" In
the name of God Amen, I Jane Boyd of Cecil County in
the
State
of Maryland being weak of Body but of sound and disposing mind,
memory
and understanding considering the certainty of death and the
uncertainty
of the time thereof 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 hence do therefore make and publish this my
last
will and testament in manner and form following that is to say
First
and prncipally 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
hereinafter named and after my just debts and funeral charges
are
paid I devise and bequeath as follows:
Item
I give and bequeath unto my daughter Hesther Harlen one
mahogney
(sic) Bureau
Item
I give and bequeath unto my daughter Sarah Brown all the rest
and
residue of my Personal Estate to her and her heirs forever and to
their
only use and benefit and to no other --
And it
is my earnest desire and Special request that my Coloured Woman
Minty
be cared for by all my sons and daughters and that all her wants
and
necessities may be supplied by them during her natural life to the
best
of their means and abilities
And lastly
I do Hereby Constitute and appoint my Son Hugh S. Boyd 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 herunto set my hand and affixed my
Seal
this Tenth day of October Eighteen hundred and fifty one in
the
year of our lord,
Signed, Sealed, published,
and declared by Jane
Boyd the above named
testator as and for her
J A N E B O Y D (Seal)
last will and testament in
the presence of us who at
her request in her presence
and in Presence of each
other have subscribed our
names as witnesses
David Archibald
John T Rutter
Cecil
County, Md January 11th, 1853.
Then came David,
Archibald,
and John T. Rutter the Subscribing Witnesses to the within
and
aforegoing Bond and made oath upon the Holy Evangels of
Almighty
God that they did see Jane Boyd the Testatrix therein named
Sign
and Seal the Same, that they heard her publish, pronounce, and
declare
the same to be her Last Will and Testament: that at the time of
her
so doing she was to the best of their apprehensions of a Sound and
Disposing
mind, memory and understanding and that they did severally
submit
their names as Witnesses to the Said Will in the presece and at
the
request of the Said Testator and in the prescence of Each Other.
Test
Jas.
H. Jamar, Regt."