Hello List, Found the following will and am passing it on, in hopes of it helping someone in their family research. Transcribed as is. Shirley Middleton Moller The Will of Nicholas Dawson of Frederick County in the State of Maryland In The Name of God Amen I Nicholas Dawson of Frederick County and State of Maryland being weak in Body but of sound and Disposing Memory do make constitute and ordain This my last will and Testament in manner and form following Vizt First I commend my Soul to Almighty God who gave it one in hope of a Joyful resurection through the merits of my Beloved Redeemer Jesus Christ 2d I desire that all my Just Debts be first paid Together with my funeral Expenses then I give to my Daughter Polly Dawson one Negro Girl named Phillis and to my Daughter Henny one other Negro Girl named Jane those two Negro Girls I give to my Two Daughters to be claimed and Possessed by them Immediately after my Decease Then my will is that the whole of my Estate both real and Personal be equally Divided between my Dear and loving wife Elizabeth Dawson and my three Children namely Polly Dawson Samuel Dawson and Henny Dawson each of them to Share alike to be paid to Them respectively as They Shall arrive at Age or Sooner if my Dear wife should think Proper And Lastly I constitute and appoint my Dear and loving Wife Elizabeth Dawson and my son Samuel Dawson Joint Executors of This my last will and Testament investing them with full Power to make a good and Sufficient Deed to Nicholas Clapper so soon as he the said Clapper shall have executed Bonds Agreeable to Contract [are for now being had Thereunto] and made the Last Payment on the with in mentioned Bonds In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Affixed my seal This the 17th Day of March in the Year of our Lord one Thousand eight Hundred and Six Nicks Dawson -seal- Signed and Acknowledged in the Presence of us Grafton Duvall Wm Wakon Jordon Stuart Levin Luckett