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2 Wills 1829 executed by John Van WyckEntry/Object ID
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John Van WyckScope and Content
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…aye and his father the said William Vawdryck has departed this life without having made a Will, filed where as I John Charles Vawdryck and Louis Barney of the City of Baltimore were duly appointed by the Orphans Court of the County of Baltimore Administrators upon the Estate of the said William Vawdryck and accepted said appointment, and have acted and continued to act as the Administrators on said Estate. And whereas Charles Webb the surviving Executor of the said last Will & Testament of the said Charles Webb deceased has sold and conveyed the said premises in fee simple. Now know ye that we the said John Charles Vawdryck and we the said J. Vawdryck and Louis Barney as such executors as aforesaid of the said William Vawdryck deceased were made, constituted and appointed Thos. S. Scott of the City of New York our true and lawful Attorney of each and every of us to and for the use and benefit of the said John Vawdryck to ask, demand, sue for, levy, recover and receive from the said Charles Webb of such executor as aforesaid the said sum of Five Hundred and Twenty current money aforesaid, and on receipt thereof in our names and our Acts and as such executors and deliver to the said Charles Webb his heirs, executors, Administrators and assigns good and sufficient releases and discharge for all, and either each and every the claims and demands upon him, them or any of them as the property and trust of them by reason or means of said conveyance, or otherwise, hereby we do assign and carry unto our said Attorney and for him to enter upon the premises and authority in and about the premises, and hereby agreeing to ratify and confirm all such lawful acts and duties he shall lawfully do in and about the premises by virtue hereof. In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals this Seventh day of May in the Year Eighteen Hundred and Twenty Nine.
John Vawdryck (Seal)
Louis Barney (Seal)
Sealed and delivered in the presence of
Chas Glenn
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Maryland District to wit
Be it remembered that on this twenty day of May Eighteen hundred twenty nine personally appeared John C. Vance & Chas. and Louis Barry before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the District Court of the United States for Maryland District, and made solemnly acknowledge the within power of Attorney annexed as and for their act and Deed.
Chas Glenn
Judge of the United States of the District of Maryland
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Know all Men by These Presents, Whereas Charles Arding, late of the City of New York deceased, in and by his last Will & Testament bearing date the twentieth day of September in the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety Eight did among other things therein contained, direct in substance, that at his death a marriage of his wife Abigail having named in said Will, and not before, the House in which he then lived together with the small Tenement which joined and which was then occupied by Catharine Conell, with the Land on which the Houses stood and as they were then enclosed in fence, should be sold at Public Vendue or otherwise for as much they would fetch, and did therein and thereby devise and bequeath out of the avails thereof the sum of Five Hundred pounds current money of New York to William Staughton, his Wife’s brother, then living in Baltimore in Maryland in trust for the use and benefit of a Child of his named Ann Charles to be paid to him when he should come of age. And whereas the said Charles Arding departed this life, leaving his said last Will & Testament uncancelled and unrevised, and his said Wife has since departed this life, and whereas the said Ann Charles Staughton has arrived at lawful age.
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J. L. Vann Wyche & Louis Barney admrs of Wm Vann Wyche decd to Scharlos Wells
Release
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Know all men by these presents Whereas Scharlos Wells a minor in the county & state aforesaid may dated the seventh day of March in the year Eighteen and hundred & two entered into a contract with J. L. Vann Wyche and Louis Barney therein named then said J. L. Vann Wyche the sum of three hundred & fourty one & thirty 41/100 dollars of which William Vann Wyche deceased was bound to pay Scharlos Wells and which amount had accrued to Scharlos Wells as report of the estate of William Vann Wyche deceased. Now therefore the said J. L. Vann Wyche and Louis Barney as administrators of the said William Vann Wyche at the time of his death and as such administrators of the estate of the said William Vann Wyche do hereby give, grant, bargain, sell & convey unto the said Scharlos Wells his heirs & assigns forever all our right, title & interest in and to the full amount of the United States America to us in hand paid by the said Scharlos Wells at & before the sealing & delivery of these presents the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged have remised, released & forever discharged and by these presents do for ourselves our heirs, executors & administrators remise, release & forever discharge the said Scharlos Wells his heirs, executors, administrators & assigns from all, and all manner of claims, causes of action, suits, debts, dues, sums of money, accounts, reckonings, bonds, bills, specialties, covenants, contracts, controversies, agreements, promises, variances, damages, judgments, executions & demands whatsoever in law or equity which against the said Scharlos Wells we ever had, now have or which our heirs, executors or administrators hereafter can, shall or may have for or by reason of any matter, cause or thing whatsoever from the beginning of the world to the day of the date of these presents.
In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands & seals this day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & two.
Signed, sealed & delivered in the presence of:
J. L. Vann Wyche
Louis Barney
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