WILL OF JAMES BISCOE

In the name of God, Amen.  I, James Biscoe of St. Mary's County of Maryland and being sick 
and weak of body but of sound mind and memory thanks be to God for the same and calling to 
mind the mortality of my body, do make and ordain this my last will and testament in the 
manner and form following.__?__,  I give and bequeath unto my beloved wife, Ann Biscoe one 
Negro girl named Elenor and one male mare to the other heirs forever.  I leave all the rest 
of my estate to be equally divided between my four children, Jonathan Biscoe and John Biscoe 
and William Biscoe and James Biscoe to them and their heirs forever after  My beloved wife Ann 
Biscoe has her third taken out.  Lastly I do constitute and appoint my beloved wife to be my 
executive of this my last well and testament.  In writing whereof I have here unto set my hand 
and affixed my seal this 16th day of October 1795.

             							
						      His
						James x  Biscoe										           Mark
Signed, Sealed and Delivered in the 
Presence of us, 
James B. Heard, William Laker, Norman White


(note:  on the 5th day of April 1796 Ann Biscoe made oath before Jeremiah Jordan, Clerk of 
Court in St. Mary's Co. MD to present the last will and testament of James Biscoe , her 
husband, and swore that it was his will and she had no knowledge of any other.  On the same 
day William Laker and Vernon White appeared before the Register of Wills  and swore that the 
will that Ann presented was the one they had witnessed and signed.  This procedure is called 
probating or proving a will.)


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