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McGregor her executor, who had filed no final account, whereupon
William B. Webb was appointed by the court to administer upon both
estates. On the same day Webb qualified in the sum of $500 each
for the two estates with L. G. Hine and Enoch Totten on the bonds,
but no final account on either estate has ever been passed.
The wills of Eliza (Shanley) Hamilton and Dr. Charles B. Hamilton
reasonably conclusively show they died without issue surviving.
Dr. Hamilton was held in high esteem by his wife's relations.
John Smith Magruder devised all his property to him in trust for
the benefit of his wife and children. Eleanor W. Magruder bequeathed
him a number of slaves and named him executor of her will
without bond. She also bequeathed some special legacies, but before
their payment he, as executor, was charged to erect a brick wall on
a granite foundation around the family graveyard at Dunblane, which
direction, so far as all existing evidences show, he entirely ignored.
Possibly he felt absolved from the obligation because of the fact that
he overpaid Eleanor W. Magruder's estate $456.95, and yet the
erection of the brick wall was expressly made a condition precedent
to the payment of specific legacies and should have been given legal
precedence.
John Smith Magruder, sometime Chief Judge of the Orphans'
Court and Captain of Militia (14th Kegiment, 1794-'99), planter, son
of Nathaniel Magruder and Margaret (Magruder) Magruder, was
born in 1767, and named for his paternal grand parents John Magruder
and Susanna Smith. He married Eleanor Clarke, born Hall.
Through legislative enactment (Laws of Maryland, 1820, Chapter
135, passed February 12, 1821), he had his children's name changed
from Magruder to the original patronymic of McGregor.
His will was made March 3, 1825, and probated in Prince George's
County, Maryland, April 20, 1825. All his estate was devised to Dr.
Charles B. Hamilton in trust for sale and division between his wife
and children, one-seventh to the former and the remainder equally
between, Margaret E., Nathaniel M., Roderick, Henry and Alerick
McGregor; in the event of death of any of whom before 21 years of
age the right of survivorship was to vest in
ried.
those who were unmar-
Other children were,
Mortimer Magruder, born 1798; died 1800.
Francis Mortimer Magruder, born 1806; died 1808.
April 20, 1825, Charles B. Hamilton,
and Eleanor W. Magruder gave bond in
Nathaniel M. McGregor
the sum of $50,000 for
Charles B. Hamilton as executor.
July 5, 1826, the executor, as trustee under the will, gave deed
to Benjamin Young for 288 acres, known as Groome's Lot, the con-
isideration named being $8,000.