Hezekiah Hudson Last Will & Testament Sussex Co. Register of Wills (#129)
from Bill Long, transcribed  bef March 16, 1990 by Mrs. Margorie Boroughs, Englewood, CO corrected

In the name of God, Amen I Hezekiah Hudson of Baltimore Hundred County of Sufsex and Delaware State Yeoman being Weak in Body but of perfect mind and memory, thanks be to God -
and Calling unto mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed for all Men once to Die; do make and ordain this to be my Last will and Testament in manner and form following. that is to Say first of all I give my Soul into the hand of Almighty God that gave it and my body 
to the Earth to be buried in a decent Christian manner at the discretion of my Executrix and as touching my worldly Estate wherewith it has pleased God to blefs me with in this Life I give and devise and dispose of in the following manner 

---first I give to my well beloved Wife Mary the house I now Live in and fifty acres of Land adjoining and her priviledge to cut Rail limber(sic) and firewood and plant on Davids land when he Sees Cause and likewise I Constitute and appoint my wife Mary to be my whole and Sole Executive and none other____________________________
-To my son John Aydlot Hudson I will and bequeath the Plantation he now lives on containing fifty acres to him and his heirs and afsigns Forever immediately after my decease
-And also to my son David Hudson I will and bequeath the land he lives on containing fifty acres to him his heirs and afsigns Forever immediately after my decease only David is not to hinder his Mother to plant on the Clear ground that is now Cleared and to cut her Rails and firewood on the woodland when and where she Choses 
-and David is also to pay my son John Aydlot Hudson fifty Shillings in cash
- Item I give to my son Benjamin Hudson the house & fifty acres of land where I now live after my wifes death, to him his heirs and afsigns Forever 
-and its also my will that David must pay unto John Aydlot Hudson at Twenty one years of age fifty Shillings in Cash
 - and to my daughter Mary Campbel I will and bequeath one third part of my personal Estate after my debts are paid to be given her immediately after my Wifes decease, to her and her heirs and afsigns Forever 
-and the Remaining part of my personal Estate to be Equally divided betwixt Nanny and Sarah at my wifes Death to them & their heirs and afsigns forever - and I do hereby utterly disallow all former Wills and Legacions Bequests and Executors by Me in anyways before named Willed and bequeathed Ratifying and Confirming this and no other to be my Last will and Testament--------------
In witnefs Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal this Eighteenth day of January in the Year of Our Lord one thousand Seven hundred and Eighty six xxxx1786
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Signed Sealed published pronounced and declared by the said Hezekiah Hutson as his Last will and Testament in the presence of us, who in  the presence of each other have here unto Set our names____
(signed) Obadiah Meecabe, Selbey Hickman x, Benjamin Long  x, John Walker
Sufsex County
Memorandum this 8 day of January 1787 Before me Phillips Kollock Register
for this Probate of wills and granting Letters of Administrations for this County afs. appeared Selby Hickman and Benjamin Long two of the Witnesses to the within will who being duly sworn on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God did severally depose and say that in their sight presence and hearing the Testator Hezekiah Hudson did sign seal publish and declare the same to be his last will and Testament and that at the doing thereof was of a sound and perfect mind memory and Judgement and that they and each of them together with Obadiah Meecabe and John Walker subscribed the same as Witnesses in presence of the Testator at his request
                        (signed) Phillips Kollock Reg. 
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