ÿþ<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:st1="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=unicode"> <meta name=ProgId content=Word.Document> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 10"> <meta name=Originator content="Microsoft Word 10"> <link rel=File-List href="John%20Wait%20Will_files/filelist.xml"> <title>Will of John Wait</title> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="City"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceName"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PersonName"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"/> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:DocumentProperties> <o:Author>default</o:Author> <o:Template>Normal</o:Template> <o:LastAuthor>Thomas Dicken</o:LastAuthor> <o:Revision>5</o:Revision> <o:TotalTime>17</o:TotalTime> <o:LastPrinted>2003-09-09T03:41:00Z</o:LastPrinted> <o:Created>2003-09-09T03:54:00Z</o:Created> <o:LastSaved>2005-10-30T18:10:00Z</o:LastSaved> <o:Pages>1</o:Pages> <o:Words>551</o:Words> <o:Characters>3146</o:Characters> <o:Lines>26</o:Lines> <o:Paragraphs>7</o:Paragraphs> <o:CharactersWithSpaces>3690</o:CharactersWithSpaces> <o:Version>10.2625</o:Version> </o:DocumentProperties> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:SpellingState>Clean</w:SpellingState> <w:GrammarState>Clean</w:GrammarState> <w:DoNotShowRevisions/> <w:DoNotPrintRevisions/> <w:DoNotShowMarkup/> <w:HyphenationZone>0</w:HyphenationZone> <w:DoNotHyphenateCaps/> <w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing>6 pt</w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing> <w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing>6 pt</w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing> <w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery> <w:UseMarginsForDrawingGridOrigin/> <w:DoNotShadeFormData/> <w:Compatibility> <w:BalanceSingleByteDoubleByteWidth/> <w:DoNotLeaveBackslashAlone/> <w:ULTrailSpace/> <w:DoNotExpandShiftReturn/> <w:UsePrinterMetrics/> <w:WW6BorderRules/> <w:FootnoteLayoutLikeWW8/> <w:ShapeLayoutLikeWW8/> <w:AlignTablesRowByRow/> <w:ForgetLastTabAlignment/> <w:AutoSpaceLikeWord95/> <w:LayoutRawTableWidth/> <w:LayoutTableRowsApart/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id=ieooui></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--> <style> <!--@page {mso-footnote-position:end-of-section;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; 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and as for my body I recommend it to the earth to be buried in a Christian like manner at the direction of my executors, not doubting but at the General resurrection I shall raise the same by the Almighty Power of God; and as for my worldly estate as it hath been pleased God to bless me with in this life. I give demise and dispose of the same manner and form following, <span class=GramE>? </span>I lend to my beloved wife Kezia Wait, the lot of land containing one hundred acres under lease from Beverly &amp; during the lives of Wm. Clark; Reuben Clark and Joseph Clark, and being the place whereon I now live, and at the death or intermarriage of my wife Kezia Wait, it is my will and desire that the lot of land become the property of my beloved son Benjamin Wait and to him his heirs and assigns forever<span class=GramE>. </span>I hope that my wife will keep our daughter Ann Blake Wait with her during their joint lives<span class=GramE>. </span>Item all the residue of my estate I lend to my Beloved Wife Kezia Wait during her widowhood, and should she marry I desire that the whole of my property (the lot of land which I live on excepted) to be sold and for my wife to have one third part of the amount of sales during her life: and at her death to be <span class=SpellE>applyd</span> in manners <span class=SpellE>herin</span> directed<span class=GramE>. </span>Item, It's my desire that my executors at the death or intermarriage of my wife: pay unto my daughter Ann Blake Wait the sum of one hundred dollars out of my estate; also my daughter Ann at the same time is to have a bed and furniture out of my estate<span class=GramE>. </span>Item, at the death of my Wife Kezia Wait I desire that Joseph Wait have a bed and furniture, and that Benjamin Wait have at the same time a bed and furniture<span class=GramE>. </span>Item-I give to my following children Sarah Levell wife of </span></b><st1:PersonName><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt'>James</span></b></st1:PersonName><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt'> Levell, John Wait, Obed Wait, and Jesse Wait, and to be paid them by my executors at the death of my wife the sum of one Shilling </span></b><st1:City><st1:place><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt'>Sterling</span></b></st1:place></st1:City><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight: normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt'> to each of them and their heirs<span class=GramE>. </span>Item, <span class=SpellE>Its's</span> my desire that all the residue of my estate after my Just debts are paid be equally divided between my following children at the death of my wife<span class=GramE>. <span class=SpellE>Niz</span>---Mary Wait, the wife of my Decd son George Wait--Hannah, wife of my Dec. Son Edward Wait, George <span class=SpellE>Cowgill</span>, who married my daughter Phebe, Henry <span class=SpellE>Stonsiffer</span> who married my daughter Elizabeth, and to them and their heirs forever--I do constitute and appoint my friend Ambrose Clark my executor, and my beloved wife Kezia Wait executrix of this my last will &amp; testament.</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span class=GramE><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt'>in</span></b></span><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt'> witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal this 16th day of April 1801<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt'>Sealed Sign, <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt'>&amp; delivered in presence of us<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt'>Henry Latham John Wait Seal<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt'>George Clark<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt'>George Ford<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt'>At a court held for </span></b><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt'>Madison</span></b></st1:PlaceName><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight: normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt'> </span></b><st1:PlaceName><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt'>County</span></b></st1:PlaceName></st1:place><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight: normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt'> on the 24th day of <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt'>September 1801__<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt'>This last will and Testament of John Wait Deceased was exhibited into court, and proved by the oaths of Henry Latham &amp; George Ford, witnesses thereto, and ordered to be recorded--and upon the motion of Ambrose Clark--an executor therein named, a Probate thereof in due form is granted him, he having made oath thereto, <span class=GramE>? entered</span> into Bono with Security according to Law--and Kezia Wait, the executrix therein named refusing to take upon herself, the burthen of the execution of the said will<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt'>Test John Walker, Junior Clerk<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> <p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> </div> </body> </html>