• General Notes

  REFN: 637
  Jacob Leis and his wife Dorothy were witnesses to the baptism of Jacob
  Rob, child of Jacob Rob and his wife Barbara on March 19, 1778.  (Page
  146, Baptisms German Reformed Church, Frederick Co., MD)
  The following was taken from Film 3415 F Md. F2b--part 4 in the L.D.S.
  Genealogical Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, on July 18, 1964, Frederick
  County, Maryland:
  "Will
  In the name of God Amen.  I Jacob Lease of Frederick County in the
  State of Maryland being in perfect health of body and of sound and
  disposing mind memory and understanding considering the certainty of
  death and the uncertainty of the time thereof and being desirous of
  settling my worldly affairs and thereby be the better prepared to leave
  this world when it shall please God to call me home, do therefore make
  and publish this my last will and testament in manner and form following,
  that is to say, First and principally I commit my soul into the hands of
  Almighty God, and my body to the earth to be decently buried at the
  discretion of my Executor herein after named and after my debts and
  funeral charges are paid I devise and request as follows.
  Item I devise and bequeath that my wife shall hold her third of all
  my real estate for during her natural life.
  Item I give and devise unto Henry Lease one fifth part of my
  plantation whereon I now reside known by the name of Wet time containing
  about ninety eight acres more or less except a road through the said
  fifth part to my meadow, the said fifth part shall be that which is in
  the possession of the said Henry Lease, to him and his heirs forever.
  Item, I give and devise unto John Lease my youngest son the other
  four fifths of my plantation above named together with all my personal
  property, to him and his heirs in fee simple.
  Item, I devise and bequeath unto my two daughters, and my eldest son
  (namely) Jacob Lease, Elizabeth Thompson and Catharine Shetenhelm, the
  sum of two hundred dollars each, to be paid by the said John Lease at or
  before the expiration of two years after my death.
  And lastly, I do hereby constitute and appoint the above named John
  Lease to be sole Executor of this my last will and testament, revoking
  and annulling all former wills by me heretofore made ratifying and
  confirming this, and none other, to be my last will and testament.
  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal
  this twenty sixth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand
  eight hundred and twenty one.
  Jacob Lease (by his mark)"

Details of Jacob's family with Dorothy Davis