I have a slightly different question for the experts in this group. Have you ever encountered a will where two witnesses stated that the third was requested to witness the document? The will was signed in PA, but the one witness asked to sign was an ancestor who moved to Rowan. Isaac Wiseman was asked to sign a will in which a Stephen Miller states that his daughter Mary has been provided for. She is the only one of the children so identified. Now, my interpretation is that Isaac's wife, whose name is Mary by records in Rowan, is the Mary who had been provided for. Am I off base? Her name has been noted, with no documentation , as being Marshall possibly. I feel it more likely that her father wanted her husband to acknowledge that his wife had been provided for. Comments? Lolene

Mary Wilson b ca 1767 d 1808 buried Jersey Babtist Church married Issac Wiseman 1781. reference The Heritage of Davidson County, Published in Cooperation with the Historical Publishing Division, Hunter Publishing Company, Winston-Salem North Carolina 27113 ISB 0-9-459-182-7 Both attended and were active members of the Jersey Church (see Paschall's History of NC Baptists) Almira (Clifford) Crim in a paper she had typed in 1947, stated that Issac Wiseman was born in Cumberland county, Penn. 1766 and died in Rowan county NC in 1835 and that wife Mary Wilson was born in Rowan county in 1767. Dwayne Meyer Lolene <lolene3599@sbcglobal.net> wrote: I have a slightly different question for the experts in this group. Have you ever encountered a will where two witnesses stated that the third was requested to witness the document? The will was signed in PA, but the one witness asked to sign was an ancestor who moved to Rowan. Isaac Wiseman was asked to sign a will in which a Stephen Miller states that his daughter Mary has been provided for. She is the only one of the children so identified. Now, my interpretation is that Isaac's wife, whose name is Mary by records in Rowan, is the Mary who had been provided for. Am I off base? Her name has been noted, with no documentation , as being Marshall possibly. I feel it more likely that her father wanted her husband to acknowledge that his wife had been provided for. Comments? Lolene ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROWANROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message