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![Link to Google Maps](google_marker.php?image=009.png&text=1) | Christening - 6 Jul 1766 - St. Peter's Church, Snelston, Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England |
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![Link to Google Maps](google_marker.php?image=038.png&text=2) | Marriage - 3 Nov 1805 - Georgetown, Washington, District of Columbia, USA |
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![Link to Google Maps](google_marker.php?image=009.png&text=3) | Occupation - Tavern & Hotel Keeper - 1796-1808 - Gadsby's Tavern, Alexandria, Virginia, USA |
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![Link to Google Maps](google_marker.php?image=009.png&text=4) | Marriage - 12 Jan 1813 - First Methodist Episcopal Church and Lovely Lane Chapel, Baltimore, Maryland, USA |
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![Link to Google Maps](google_marker.php?image=009.png&text=5) | Occupation - Hotel Owner - 1808-1819 - Indian Queen Hotel, Baltimore, Maryland, USA |
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![Link to Google Maps](google_marker.php?image=038.png&text=6) | Death - 15 May 1844 - Washington, District of Columbia, USA |
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![Link to Google Maps](google_marker.php?image=038.png&text=6) | Probate - The Will of John Gadsby, of Washington, DC, is dated 11 Mar 1844 and probated on 28 May 1844.
To Exrs. And trustees, all real estate and all right, title and interest in any land, with buildings, improvements, rights, ways, privileges, with confidence that trustees of Exrs. will permit wife (third) Provey Gadsby, during her lifetime, to use, occupy and possess, all lots and real estate in City of Washington, in Square 167, with all buildings, improvements, etc.: after death of wife to two daughters, Augusta McBlair and Julia Gadsby.
To wife, all the following negro slaves: man Nace, or Ignatius Newton, aged about 50 yrs.; man Henry King, aged about 40 yrs.; woman Maria King, aged about 35 yrs.; girl Celia King, aged about 16 yrs.; boy Charles King, aged about 9 yrs.; girl Sarah Jane King, aged about 4 yrs.; boy George King, aged about 18 mos.; woman Maria Williams, aged about 30 yrs.; girl Martha Ann Williams, aged about 6 yrs.; girl Mary Ellen Williams, aged about 4 yrs.; boy James Williams, aged about 18 mos.; woman Keziah Williams, aged about 28 yrs.; Mary Frances Williams, aged about 7 yrs.; boy William Williams, aged about 5 yrs.; woman Rosa Marks, aged about 48 yrs.; Nancy Fairfax, aged about 45 yrs.; James Long, aged about 25 yrs.
Also to wife, all household furniture, plate, pictures, library, groceries, liquors, linen, garden and other implements and utensils, horses and carriage, hay, grain, harness; all rents due and owing; subject to Exrs. allowing daughters Augusta McBlair and Julia Gadsby to receive rents and issues of real estate devised for their use, and after 12 mos. From my decease, rents and profits of following property: Lots 8 through 19 in Square 76, so as the same shall be used, occupied by said daughters Augusta and Julia.
Trustees to hold west half of Lot 15 in Square 491, with buildings and improvements, in City of Washington, in trust for daughter Margaret S. Chapman during her natural life, to possess and occupy the same; at her death to daughter-in-law Mary Augusta Gadsby in fee simple without any control of her husband.
Trustees to hold east half of Lot 15 in Square 491, as above, for use of daughter Ann Sophia Newton, during her natural life, that she use, possess and occupy the same; at her death to Margaret C. Newton, Maria Cooke Newton, Virginia Ann Newton, and Ann Augusta Newton, daughters of Ann Sophia Newton.
Exrs. to sell remaining real property, and proceeds equally divided among my five children: Augusta McBlair, Julia Gadsby, Margaret S. Chapman, Ann Sophia Newton, and William Gadsby.
Executors: Provey Gadsby, wife; friends James Eakin and Alexander McIntire, trustees and Exrs. of will
Witnesses: James Adams, William Noyes, S.B. Boarman - 28 May 1844 - Washington, District of Columbia, USA |
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![Link to Google Maps](google_marker.php?image=009.png&text=7) | Burial - - Congressional Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, USA |
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