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Surnames: Carlyle, Carlisle, Dudderan
Classification: Will
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Last Will and Testament of Susannah Carlisle
Transcribed from SAMPUBCO copy by Liz Stratton
Frederick County, MD Will Book Vol. 11, page 139
Surnames: CARLISLE/CARLYLE, DUDDERAN
Written: May 25, 1835
Proved: August 22, 1836
Transcribers comments are in [ ]. Note that some parts of the will were extremely
difficult to read. Witnesses names were deciphered as well as possible.
In the name of God Amen I Susannah Carlisle of Frederick County, in the State of Maryland,
being sick and weak in body, but of sound and disposing mind memory and understanding
considering the certainty of death, and the uncertainty of the time thereof, and being
desirous to settle my worldly affairs, and thereby be the better prepared to leave this
world when it shall please God to call me hence, do therefore, make and publish this my
last will and Testament in manner and form following, that is to say
First and principally I commit my soul unto the hands of Almighty God, and my body to the
earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my Executor hereinafter named, and after
my debts and funeral charges are paid I devise and bequeath as follows.
I give and bequeath unto Alden Carlyle if he shall be living at the time of my decease one
bedstead and bedding if he shall not be living my will and desire is that it shall belong
to my brother David Dudderan [?Dudderane?]
I give and bequeath the whole residue of my Estate to my brother David Dudderan his heirs
and assigns.
And lastly I do hereby constitute and appoint my Law brother David Dudderan to be sole
Executor of this my last will and Testament, revoking and annulling all former wills by me
heretofore made, ratifying and confirming this and none other to be my last Will and
Testament. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this
twenty fifth day of May in the year of our Lord One thousand and eight hundred and thirty
five.
Signed, Sealed, published and declared by Susannah Carlyle the above named Testator [?]
for her last Will and testament in the presence of us, who at her request, in her presence
and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names in witness thereto
David W. Knell Levi Z. Baines [?unclear] David Dudderan[?name unclear]
State of Maryland, Frederick County To wit
On the 23d day of August, 1836 came David Dudderan and made oath on the Holy Evangely of
Almighty God that the foregoing Instrument of writing is the whole will and Testament of
Susannah Carlyle late of Frederick County, deceased, that has come to his hand and
possession, that he received the same from John Dudderan for safe keeping and that he does
not know of any other of a later date.
Test. G. M. Eichelberger, Regt.
State of Maryland, Frederick County, to wit
On the 23d day of August, 1836 came Levi Z. Baines [?] and David Dudderan[?] two
subscribing witnesses to the foregoing will and Testatment of Susannah Carlyle deceased
and under oath on the holy Evangely of Almighty God that they did see the Testatrix
therein named sign and seal this will. That they did see her publish pronounce and
declare the same to be her last will and Testament. That at the time of her so doing, she
was to the best of their apprehensioning of a sound and disposing mind memory and
understanding. That they respectively subscribed their names as witnesses thereto, at the
request of the Testatrix and in her presence and that they did also see David W. Naill,
the other subscribing witness subscribe his name as witness thereto at the request of
theTestatrix and in her presence and all in the presence of each other.
Test. B. M. Eichelberger, Regt.