African Americans

NEWCOMER, Samuel, sick and weak 
   
- 2nd w/ Elizabeth

Slave 
- black boy, Michael HOWARD, to be set free at age 31 on 17 Jan 1820

exec/ John WITMER and Peter NEWCOMER
wit/ Joseph INGMAN, Andrew NEWCOMER, Daniel NEWCOMER
Widow demanded her 1/3.
[Washington Co, MD - Will B, 334-335 in German – 11 May 1811; 15 May 1811)
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SMITH, Robert   d/ 1818

to John REYNOLDS and wife Mary (house in Hagerstown where they live)
......their son, John REYNOLDS Jr

niece/ Susannah TAIS
niece/ Margaret w/o Martin HITT - Ohio - their children 
.........Samuel Merrit HITT - Ohio
.........Thomas Smith HITT - Ohio?

negro slave, JOHN - to be freed 3 months after Smith’s death

Exec/ Samuel Merrit HITT and friend, Archibald M. WAUGH;
Witnesses:  Richard RAGAN, John KENNEDY and Hugh KENNEDY.

Samuel Merrit HITT, who was devised lands, immediately took 
possession after the death of Smith, receiving the profits thereof.  
Archibald M. WAUGH has since died (before Dec 1829), leaving HITT 
as surviving executor.  

Christian ORNDORFF and Jacob HESS also died many years ago; 
but, their heirs are scattered over the United States and the names 
of most of them are unknown. -  Dec 1829
[Washington Co, MD - Will,  20 May 1816; 28 Oct 1818)]