Sussex on Delaware In the name of God Amen, this nineteenth day of June in the year of our lord one thousand Seven hundred and Seventy six I David Williams of the County aforesaid being sick and weak in body but of sound disposing mind and memory (thanks be given to God for the same, calling to mind the Mortality of my body and knowing it is appointed once for all men to die, do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament that is to say principally, and first of all I Give and Recommend my soul into the hands of God, who gave it me and for my body I Recommend to the Earth to be buried in a Christian like manner at the discretion of my Executors, My funeral charges and all my Just Debts to be paid first of all by my Executors, I Give and dispose of my worldly Estate in the manner and form following that is to say.

Item. I Give and bequeath unto my son Elijah Williams, one hundred and seventy acres of Land, being part of two Tracts of Land, one called Williams’s Vexation, and the other called Bachelors Quarter, to him his heirs and assigns forever, and I Give and bequeath to him one black Mare call’d Pleasure, and one man’s saddle.

Item I Give and bequeath unto my son Morgan Williams, one hundred and Seventy Three acres of Land being of the above mentioned Tracts adjoining Morgan Williams’s land to him his heirs and assigns forever.

Item I Give and bequeath to my son William Williams a parcel of Land called Bactors, and 20 perches over the Road towards my dwelling plantation adjoining John Richards’s Likewise twenty perches from the Road adjoining William Paynters Land, thence with a straight line from the one twenty perches to the other, to him his heirs and assigns Forever, and I Give and bequeath unto him, one young Horse called Duke, and one man’s Saddle.

Item I Give and bequeath unto my son John WIlliams, one hundred acres of Land deeded from Richard Hays to Levin Crapper, to him and his heirs and assigns forever.

Item I Give and bequeath to my son David Williams all the Land and plantation that I now live on, with all the buildings improvements and appurtenances hereunto belonging to my son William’s line, to him his heirs and assigns forever. And further I Give and bequeath to him the first Colt that my son Elijah’s Mare brings.

Item I Give and bequeath unto my son Curtis Williams a parcel of Land called Partnership at the North west, end to a line drawn in the plot to him and his heirs and assigns forever, and further I Give and bequeath to him one negro Lad named Dick to him, his Heirs and assigns forever.

Item I Give and bequeath unto Robert Ross, all the Remainder of the Land call’d partnership the southeast end from the said one drawn in the Plot, to him and his heirs and assigns forever.

Item I Give and bequeath unto my daughter Rebekah Carlisle, one negro Girl nam’d  Rose to her, and her heirs forever, and one feather bed, and furniture, and one Cow and a two year old Heffer. 

Item, I Give and bequeath unto my daughter Luiricia Williams, one Negro Girl nam’d Jude, to her heirs and assigns forever, and one sorrel two year old horse nam’d Sorap? and one Three year old Heffer,

Item, I Give and bequeath, unto my daughter Mary Williams, one negro Girl nam’d Grace, to her and her heirs and assigns forever, and one three year old heifer, to her & her heirs forever, 

Item I Give and bequeath unto Nelly Smith Williams, one negro Girl nam’d Chloe, to her & her heirs, and assigns forever, and one feather bed and furniture.

Item I Give and bequeath unto my daughter Peggy Williams one negro Boy nam’d Isaac, to her & her Heirs, and assigns forever, and one feather bed and furniture,

Item I Give and my two Eldest sons Elijah and William Williams all my waring apparel, to be equally divided between them.

Item. I Give and bequeath unto my loving wife Mary, peaceable, and Quiet possession

of the two new Rooms of my dwelling house, on the Lower floor during her widowhood or lifetime, also I Give her the full possession of a negro Lad named Dick untill my son Curtis Williams arrives to the age of Twenty one years.

Item I Gve and bequeath unto my loving wife Mary Williams, all the Residue, or Remainder of my Estate, to her and her heirs, and assigns forever,

Item I Constitute authorize and appoint, my loving wife Mary Williams and my loving son William Williams, my sole Executrix and Executor of this my Last Will, and Testament, and I do hereby utterly disannull and Revoke all other former Wills and Testaments whatsoever by me made and executed ratifying and confirming this and no other, to be my Last Will and Testament, In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, seal the day and year first above Written. David Williams {seal}

Samuel Barnet John Hudson  Luke Davis Thomas Davis

Memorandum the 24th day of July 1776. Personally appeared  before me Phillips Kollock. Register appointed for the probate of Wills and granting Letters of Administration for the County of Sussex on Delaware Samuel Barnet and Luke Davis two of the witnesses to the foregoing Will, and being solemnly Sworn on the holy Evangelists of Almighty God Did severally depose and say that in their sight, presence and hearing the Testator David Williams did Sign Seal publish pronounce and declare, the above and within written to be his last Will and Testament, and that at the doing thereof the said Testator was of a sound and perfect disposing mind memory and Judgment (to be the best of their knowledge and belief) and that they and each of them together with John Hudson and Thomas Davis, subscribed the same as evidences, at Request and in presence of the Testator. Test Phillips Kollock Regr

Delaware, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1676-1971, Image 343, Book B-D, 1751-1794, Page 50. https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/9044/records/663843?tid=194514904&pid=302705728212

Transcribed 12 Nov 2025 by Nancy Maliwesky