Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties
Grafton Boone Duvall
1803 - 1836 (32 years)-
Name Grafton Boone Duvall Birth 26 Nov 1803 Anne Arundel County, Maryland Gender Male Death 26 May 1836 Anne Arundel County, Maryland Person ID I76375 Tree1 Last Modified 5 Apr 2024
Father Henry Duvall, b. 2 Mar 1778, Anne Arundel County, Maryland d. 22 Jul 1822, Anne Arundel County, Maryland (Age 44 years) Relationship natural Mother Elizabeth Boone, b. 28 Sep 1783, Anne Arundel County, Maryland d. 21 Nov 1808, Anne Arundel County, Maryland (Age 25 years) Relationship natural Marriage 16 Sep 1800 Anne Arundel County, Maryland Family ID F38641 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Elizabeth Duvall, b. 1805, Queen Anne Parish, Prince George's County, Maryland Marriage 28 Mar 1826 Anne Arundel County, Maryland Children 1. Elizabeth Duvall, b. 8 Jan 1827, Anne Arundel County, Maryland [Father: natural] 2. Charles Duvall, b. 30 Nov 1833, Anne Arundel County, Maryland [Father: natural] Family ID F38643 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 5 Apr 2024
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1828-1834 Prince George's County MD Will Book
Folio 13 RICHARD DUVALL 02/14/1834; 02/11/1834
"being of sound and disposing mind ..."
Bequeaths to:
1. Charles Duvall --son
Grafton B. Duvall--son-in-law
-named executors and to have the whole of the testator's estate both real and personal as it now stands along with the farm belonging to the testator's wife in Anne Arundel County by her consent and wish for 5 successive years to be worked and managed by them with no interference by anyone for the payment of the testato'rs debts
-Charles to have the testator's dwelling plantation, the same beginning at the spot where the south line of "Wilson's Place" enters Judge Duvall's land and running thence ...until it intersects the line of "Recovery" and thence... to the gate which divides this place from the one on which Richard Cross now
resides thence east with the dividing line as it now runs so as to intersect the given line of the whole tract called "Beall's Gift" near Benjamin Duckett's meadow thence with the north line to the 1st bounder being the spot where the line between this place and Wilson's enters Judge Duvall's land
2. Margaret Duvall --wife
-at the end of the term of 5 years to be enjoyed by her during her widowhood all that portion of the testator's estate called "Wilson's" beginning at a corner near the gate between the place and Judge Duvall's still woods running south to the line that divides Wilson's place from the one whereon the testator now resides where stood the fence at the time the testator purchased Wilson's place and which line is a few yards to the north of where Wilson's Spring re-enters Judge Duvall's land and running thence in a line until it intersects the one of "Recovery"
-to have for her single life all that portion of the testator's estate called the "Upper Place" being part of a tract of land called "The Recovery" running south from a stone which is the northwest corner of "Recovery" and north of where the house now stands to the main woods thence east by or through a
place called the flax patch until it intersects the 2nd line of "Beall's Gift" meeting the above line of "Wilson's Place" and also there is a piece of land lying between "Recovery" and "Beall's Gift" which is to be called "Huckleberry Slipe" to be part of the land to testator's wife
-all the land which the testator owns beyond or west of Belt's Branch to be held in trust by Charles and Grafton
-she and her 2 children and daughter Maria --if they believe it proper to do so to live on and be supported by the estate as usual for the term of 5 years and also the testator's youngest son is to be educated out of the estate left in trust for 5 years
-wife and 2 daughters Maria and Jemima to have the testator's carriage, harness and 2 horses "Ned" and "Nimrod"
-at the end of the above 5 year term, to have all the property the testator acquired by her marriage and to her son Zachariah all that is on her farm in Anne Arundel County
-should wife or any of the testator's children be dissatisfied with their portion
of the estate, then they are to be deprived of their portion and to be divided
among those that are satisfied
3. Jemima Duvall--daughter
-at the death or remarriage oftestator's wife to have all that land above given
her
4. Elizabeth Duvall --daughter
-to have all that part of the testator's estate called "The Lower Place" or "Belt Brashear's" and also the 25 acres of wood land which the said Brashear's purchased from Thomas Belt being pmi of a tract of land called "Belt's Discovery"
-rest of the testator's estate and slaves --except for Negro woman "Harriet" and her children and Negro boy which Elizabeth has in her possession--to be divided among her and testator's children Charles and Jemima
5. Maria Duvall--daughter
-to have all the residue of the testator's land lying on this side of the branch called Belt's Branch with the whole of the testator's part of the said branch or marsh
-to have her choice of 5 slaves
6. Gabriel Duvall --son
Alexander Duvall --son
-all that land left in trust to executors lying to the west of Belt's Branch for their use during their lives but should the said sons lose by death or otherwise their present wives and marry again and have issue by their 2nd wives then to that one marrying 1/2 of the said land but should either of them die leaving their present wives then the share of him so dying being held in trust for the benefit ofthe other during the life of such other is to revert to the testator's other children
Witnesses: Joseph Cross
George W Duvall
Dennis Duvall
Then came: George W. Duvall
Note: the testator signed the will in his own hand
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