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Prince George's County MD Will Book Liber T No. #1; 1803-1808; Folio 524
THOMAS LANSDALE 11/13/1802 01/27 /1803
"being Sick and weak in Body , ,"
Bequeaths to:
1 William M. Lansdale --son
-testator desires that his business in Queen Anne Town be conducted under the
firm of Lansdale & Clagett --prosecuted and continued until the 1st of May 1804
by his son as if testator was still alive and son is to act as his substitute in order to keep the firm alive and all that all estate read, mixed and personal to be considered as liable for the transactions and that the whole profits of the said transactions on testator's part or on the part of William are to be taken as part of the estate generally and not to vest in him
-to have $20,000 and testator's gold watch to keep as a memorial of his father
2. Cornelia Lansdale --daughter
Violetta Lansdale -daughter
Eliza Lansdale --daughter
Phillip Lansdale --son
-testator's 5 children to have 20 lots in the City of ‘Vashington as described in the
deeds
-each to have an equal portion share and share alike
3. 'William H. Dorsey --friend of Georgetown
-to make and distribute w/in 12 months after testator's decease the said lots
Washington among testator's children
-Phillip to have the sum of $25,000
-Cornelia to have the sum of $16.000
-Violerta to have the sum of $16, 000
-Eliza to have the sum of $16,000
4. Cornelia Lansdale --wife
-to have all of testator's real estate lying in the town of Queen Anne for her widowhood or single life and should she remarry, then the real estate to testator's son William
-to have the sum of $16,000
-to have all. Negroes, stock, all household furniture, kitchen furniture, carriage, horses and the money in the house at the time of testator's decease except for certificates -testator desires that his 5 children reside with their mother until they arrive at the age
of 21 and the interest on the sums devised to them to be applied to their maintenance -remainder of the estate to be divided among testator's 5 children
-named executrix of the will
Witnesses: Thomas C. Dowic
Baruch Duckett Joseph W. Clagett Clement Smith
Then came: Thomas Contee Bowie. Joseph White Clagett and Clement Smith
Note: the testator signed the will in his own hand
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