6 Questions put to Mr G.W., Which Questions, He Answered, 25 August 1768

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1 Does Mr Tasker's will direct that his domestick slaves at Annapolis should be sold?

1 The domestic servants are included in the words 'all my negroes', and therefore should be sold.

2 Are not His 4 Daughters, who are named in the will to take 4 fifths of the Tobacco, ??? grain, which is & shall be made this ??? it the Testator's Plantaion & the Stock of all kinds

2. The ??? ???crop I should judge to be part of the persnal estate, and to be divided in the same manner.

3 Does the will give me any contra??? the Legacies bequeathed to Mrs. Eliz^th ?????

3 None that I can see.

4 The will direscts that the Executrix shall transfer to Mrs. Ogle, Mrs. Sound(?) & myself 1000 £ Bank Stock in trust for Master Benj^?Benson. Have the Trustees a Power to sell ???B__ Stock?

4 They have no power, I think, to sell the stock.

5 The late Col. Tasker did by will give to his Father all his Estate in Trust, & directed that it shold be sold, & the money thence arising to be by him applied in the manner therein directed. The late Mr. Tasker sold part of his son's personal Estate amounting to < >< >< >< >< >< >< >< > ????, but did not sell any part of the real Estate: and devised by will all his Son's ?????? personal Estate to Mrs. Ogle, Mr. C. Downds & my-self, authorizing us to fulfil the Trust his Son had reposed in him. Could Mr. Tasker delegate his Trusteeship to another and if that part of his will is not to operate what is to become of that part of Col. Tasker's Estate, which was not sold? But if a Trustee may create a Deputy, (as in the present case) can I consistently, agree that Mr. C. Sounds shall receive one third of Col. Tasker's Fortune which he devises to Mrs. Eliz^th Lowndes during her Life only when the Testator forbids his

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his Executor to pay to Mr. Christopher Lowndes any part of the Profits to which may arise on account of said Legacy. But to pay the party Interest to Mrs. Elisabeth Lowndes & that her Receipts though cou??rt shall be sufficient discounts(?) against said Profits? 6 Mrs. Tasker hath some Bonds, that are part of his Son's Estate, when she shall deliver them up to Mrs. Ogle, Mr. Lowndes & mystelf

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