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The Peter Lemare Will Transcription
Bev Crowe and I spent about a week going over every millimeter
of the will and have finally decided that this is the best transcription
we could provide.All spelling is intact and items in (Brackets) are either
guesses or notes. There is a bad tear on page one and we had to make a
couple of guesses based on parts of words being missing from the ripped
area.
The Will of Peter Lemare, Transcribed from a Photocopy
of the original will By Bev Crowe, John W. O'Neal, II 1/29/2002. On record
at The Annapolis Hall of Records, Annapolis, Maryland
Willbook 2, -- folios 301, Page 1
In the name of God Amen. That whereas I peter
Lemare
of this County Calvert and province of Maryland planter-
being very Sick and weak of body but in good and Sound-
perfect Sence and Memory Do here make my Last will
and
Testament renounceing all other wills before this
present
Item I give and bequeath my Soul into the hand of
almighty
God who gave it me trusting in and through the Merits
of
Jesus Christ to have free pardon of all my Sins and
to have
a Joyful Resurrection at the Last Day and what worldly
Estate (which) it pleased God to bestow upon me I
give and be-
Queath (in manner) and form as followeths That after
my fu-
neral (expenses) and Debts paid that my moveable Estate
Shall
be (administered ) and that it Shall be Equally divided
amongst
my loving wife frances Lemare frances and my three
Daughters as namely Ann Lemare and Mary Lemare and
Margaret Lemare and that they Shall have their Equall
pro-
portion at the age of Sixteen years or on the day
of their marriage
and also I give and bequeath to my Loving wife the
plantation
whereon I now Live with all writs and privileges thereunto
belong during her Naturall Life and after her decease
to be
Equally divided amongst my three Daughters before
named
My Daughter Margaret to have the first Choice I also
give
and bequeath unto my Grand Child Peter Oweill that
plant-
ation with all the Land on the Western Side of that
branch
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Willbook 2, -- folios 302, Page 2
whereon now Joseph Edwards Lives with all rights and
priviledges thereunto belonging to him and to his
heirs for Ever
and that he Shall pofsefs And Enjoy the Same when
he shall
attain to the age of one and Twenty years and also
my will
and pleasure is that my Son in Law Jo Ownoill shall
pofsefs
(possess. Double s's were written as fs.)
the said plantation as Soon as the Said Joseph Edwards
Lease is Expired and that he Shall enjoy the Same
till the
Said peter Owniell shall come to the age af'd and
further I
do appoint and ordain my good and Lovening friends
Jo
Davis and Joseph Edwards to be my Trustees and to
Execute
according to this my Last will and Testament and So
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Committing all to the almighty God I have hereunto
Sett my hand and affixed my Seal this 9th Day of October
1693
Peter Lemare mark & Seal (Looks like a tipped over
capitol H)
Signed Sealed and Delivered in the presence of us
Tho Person
(His) Mark (Looks like a capitol T)
Francis Dias
(His) Mark (Looks like a capitol O with a cross in the
center of the O)
Wm Dalres (or Dabres)
March the 31 th 1694
Then was the within named will proved by the within
named wittnefses Coram me (French, Came Before me)
Jo B-er Dep Court Ca Co (Jo B--er or P--er)
(Dep Court Ca Co = Deputy of The Court of Calvert County,
Maryland)
NOTE: Brackets ( ) denote information added by Bev &
John.
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