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1823-1827 Prince George's County MD Will Book
Folio 342 ISAAC DUCKETT 05/04/1822 07/08/1823
"of sound and disposing mind memory & understanding ..."
Bequeaths to:
1. John Contee --son-in-law
-to have all the testator's plate of every kind, testator's watch, chain, and seals and furniture of every sort and description
-named executor of the will and empowered to do with the estate as he sees proper for the advantage of the testator's grandchildren
Witnesses: Samuel Maccubbin
Joseph Stockett
Richard Tollman
Then came: Joseph Stockett and Richard Tollman
Note: the testator signed the will in his own hand
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Charles County Maryland Will Book HB-14, 1817-1825; {Abstract by Mike Marshall}; Page 120.
Jane Contee, Will (copy), January 5, 1820; June 3, 1820
I, Jane Contee of the town and county of Alexandria in the District of Columbia;
To my slaves; Monaca, Nell, Anney & William, daughters and son of the aforesaid Monaca, also Weston Hamilton and Philip Hamilton the sons of the aforesaid Nell, their full and absolute freedom.
To John Contee and Richard Alexander Contee, the sons of my brother Richard Alexander Contee, 1 guinea each.
To Matilda Margaret Snowden Sanders, Enoch Marguder and Richard Alexander Contee Magruder, the daughter and sons of my sister Ann Magruder, 1 guinea each.
To sister Elizabeth Keith, my half tract of land in Charles County Maryland, and conveyed to us jointly by our father …. (faded illegible writing was inserted between the line, but seems to suggest that after her death to her children ) …John Contee Keith, Elizabeth Contee Keith, Margaret Snowden Keith, Jane Ann Contee Keith and Catharine Contee Keith, the son and daughters of my sister.
To Elizabeth Contee Keith, Margaret Snowden Keith, Jane Ann Contee Keith and Catharine Contee Keith, the rest and residue of my estate.
Executors: sister Elizabeth Keith and James Keith Jr. her son
Signed: January 5, 1820 Jane Contee
Wit: John Roberts, John W. Massie, Thomas R. Keith, William Washington
At a session of the Orphans Court for the County of Alexandria, District of Columbia June 3, 1820 this last will and testament was presented my James Keith Jr. and proved in due form of law by the three subscribing witnesses and ordered to be recorded. Alexr Moore Reg Wills
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Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties
1794 - 1839 (45 years)