Solomon Coulbourne
- Born: 19 Apr 1684, Somerset Co., MD
- Marriage (1): Rachel Handy
- Died: 07 Mar 1749, Somerset Co., MD
Solomon Coulbourn, planter
MdW-26:011SoW-EB14:018
03 Aug 174405 May 1749
AnnemessexSomerset
To son Solomon Coulbourn : use and benefits of as much of my cultivated lands . . . as he himself with proper utensils can reasonably tend, part of POMFRETT, Also, a yoke of oxen, plow harrow and one bed and furniture B on the consideration of my giving of them my Lands that they find and provide for the said Solomon Coulburn a good and sufficient maintenance of meat, washing, lodging and apparel.
To son William Coulbourn: upper plantation, being the plantation that Peter Frazier formerly lived on, beginning at a marked white oak . . . from a cove issuing out of Jones Creek, part of POMFRETT
To son Benjamin Coulbourn: plantation that I now live on, between the land that I have given William and the mouth of a ditch. Per county land records (So Deeds G:389), this was (172 ac of) POMFRET, Negro girl Black Nanny, conditionally.
To son Isaac Coulbourn: all the lands from the land I have given Benjamin along the head lines to the head lines of my brother William Coulbourn's land and from there to to the remaining part of my land on Jones' Creek, part of POMFRETT, Negro boy Bristol.
To wife Rachel Coulbourn: Negro girl Ruth on consideration that she give first child of Ruth to daughter Joan; yoke of oxen, plow, harrow, bed and furniture, livestock.
To daughter Joan Coulbourn: first child of Ruth. Livestock, feather bed and furniture.
To daughter Anne Coulbourn: first child of Black Nanny. Best bed and furniture; livestock.
To daughter Grace Beauchamp (wife of Morey Beauchamp): Negro girl Moira. Three-year-old heifer.
To sons Benjamin Coulbourn, Isaac Coulbourn, William Coulbourn: right and title to a tract taken up by my grandfather William Coulbourn, 200 ac FERRY BRIDGE
Overseers of estate: friends John Horsey and William Duitt.
Executors: wife Rachel Coulbourn, son Isaac Coulbourn.
Witnesses: William Miles, Patrick McKenny, John Waters.
Widow Rachel Coulbourn elected her thirds.
Solomon married Rachel Handy, daughter of Samuel Handy Sr. and Mary Sewell. (Rachel Handy was born on 15 Apr 1693 in Somerset Co., MD and died on 10 Dec 1770 in Somerset Co., MD.)
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