Will of Charles Defay
Submitted by Pattie Causey
Charles Defay,
Book 5, 15 Apr 1795
"In the name of God amen I Charles Defay now
in Baltimore in the state of Maryland and Citizen thereof heretofore residing
in the Island of St. Domingo being at present Indisposed in body but of sound
and disposing mind and memory, do make and ordain this my Last Will and
Testament. In the First place I give and bequeath unto my loving sisters
Fanjug the wife of Thos. Gibert and Polier the wife of Demaray and my niece
Eugenie Sandre all my Estate of whatsoever kind which I possess in the world
to be Equally divided between my said sisters and niece share and share alike.
I do hereby appoint my friend John Casrere? of Baltimore Town Merchant the
Executor of this my Last Will and Testament hereby requesting him to settle
and adjust all my affairs of whatever kind in America or else where, and to
pay over the neat amount of my Estate to the Legatees before named according
to the direction before given as witness my hand and seal this fifteenth of
April 1795
signed sealed and delivered
published and declared to
be the Last Will and Testamt.
of Charles Defay in the
presence of us the subscribers who at his Request
in his
presence and in the presence of each other have
hereto affixed our names in the day and year above written
? Holingsworth
Henry Molier
B. Marrey
Goujon"
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