Copies of wills probated in Orphans' Court giving decedent, location and description of property, distribution, beneficiaries, witnesses, affidavits of executor and witnesses, test of register, date filed and admitted to probate, signature of register of wills. Arranged chronologically by date recorded. Volume WG 1 began as a record of the Howard District of Anne Arundel County, but continued as a record of Howard County upon the creation of that jurisdiction in 1851.