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Richard G. Boyd NEW EMAIL ADDRESS RichBoyd (at sign) Charter.net
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Richard G. Boyd NEW EMAIL ADDRESS RichBoyd (at sign) Charter.net
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Jane Steel Boyd's Will 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...... Chuck & Eileen
FitzGerald cdfitzg1@juno.com 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 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
David Archibald 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
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