Edward Queen v. John Ashton. Extract from the Will of James Carroll

 

I bequeath to my Cousin Anthony Carroll now with me two Negroes vizt. Henry and Mary to be delivered if alive to him the tenth of October after my decease the better to enable him to seat his five hundred acres of Land which is to be laid out in a convenient form where he shall think fit to seat if he settles it first

In Testimony that the above is a true extract from the Will of James Carroll bearing date the twelfth Day of February one thousand seven hundred and twenty eight and proved June the 27th 1727 recorded in Liber CC No. 2 one of the late prerogative Records I have hereto Set my Hand and affixed my Seal of Office this 19th day of May in the year of our Lord 1794

Jno Gassaway Reg Wills AA Coty

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Ashton's