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- date of death of December 5, 1827 not proved
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Charles County Maryland Will Book AI-10, 1788-1791; Page 291.
Robert Brent Sr - Will
I, Robert Brent of CC, am in a low & weak state of body but of sound memory & disposing judgment.
To my son Robert Brent - my silver tankard khan(?), my silver watch, couch, desk, & bookcase standing in the hall, my riding saddle, gun, & all my wearing apparel.
To my daughter Mary Brent - the following Negroes, viz, Gerrard, Joe, Prise, & Ciscily & their increase, 1 feather bed & furniture & a black walnut chest of drawers standing in her room.
To my [daughter) Teresa Brent - Nace, Jack, and Nan & their increase, 1 feather bed & furniture, & 1 large, black, walnut chest standing in her room.
To my daughter Eleanor Brent - Negroes Davy, Charity, & Sall, & their increase, 1 feather bed & furniture, 1 black, walnut desk standing in her room.
To my daughter Jane Brent - Negroes Sylvester, Jess, & young Clare & their increase, 1 feather bed & furniture, 1 maple desk & a square walnut table it commonly stands on.
To my daughter Elizabeth Brent - Negroes Harry, Gab, & Fanny, & their increase, 1 feather bed & furniture, 1 oval tea table standing in the passage & 1 small maple table standing upstairs.
I want the residue of my personal estate kept together on my plantation for 1 full year after my death, & that the profits arising therefrom be applied towards the discharge of my just debts & if sd profits be not sufficient for sd purpose, that such part of the residue, with the consent of my afd 5 daughters, at the discretion of my executors, to be sold. After my debts are discharged, the residue is to be equally divided between my 5 daughters afd, or the survivors of them.
To my son Robert Brent - all of my landed estate, reserving to my daughters, during their single state, a dwelling house, and one half of the other nescery(?) out houses now standing on the plantation, a garden, a quantity of good, arable land, pasturage, firewood, & other necessaries, agreeable to the intent of a bond heretofore passed from me to my son Robert Brent.
Executor: my son Robert Brent.
Signed Jan 11, 1789 - Robert Brent. Wit - H. Digges, John Digges, Francis Digges.
Probated on Feb 8, 1790 by Robert Brent Jr, executor, and by the oaths of witnesses Henry Diggs, John Diggs, & Francis Diggs.
Letters Testamentary were granted to the executor; his securities were Henry Jameson & Ignatius Matthews
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Charles County Land Records 1782-1786; Liber Z#3; Page 47. Bond, recorded at the request of Robert Brent Jr. I, Robert Brent Sr of CC, give bond to Robert Brent Jr of CC, in the just sum of 8000 £, this Jan 12, 1784, to warrant that I shall, by a good deed of gift, make over to sd Robert Brent Jr, all my right to all the lands and hereditaments now held and possessed by me, being parts or parcels of tracts of land called Baltimores Gift, and Sarum, near the head of Wicomico River, reserving to myself the occupation and possession of the abovesd lands and tenements during my natural life, and atter my death, a dwelling house, a tobacco house, and kitchen or garden, a quantity of good, arable land not exceeding 30 acres for corn, 12 acres for tobacco ground, and 12 acres of good land for small grain, the whole of which land is to be laid off by the afd Robert Brent Jr where he thinks will best suit, with pasturage for 6 horses, 16 cattle, 20 sheep, and 20 hogs, and privilege of cutting fire wood, for the use of my daughters, Mary, Ann, Teresa, Eleanor, Jane, and Elizabeth, while each is unmarried, or shall, in like manner, devise in my will all the above lands and tenements to my sd son, Robert Brent Jr, free from every other except the above named encumbrances.
Signed - Robt Brent. Wit - J Farnham, Frans Hamersley.
Recorded Jan 27, 1784,
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Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties
Abt 1754 - Aft 1790 (~ 37 years)