Individual Details

Will

Proven 9 Aug 1806.
John Jones Will Cumberland County G171
 
In the name of God Amen I John Jones (blacksmith) of thetownship of Juniata County of Cumberland and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
 
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[Top two lines are almost totally illegible and the entirewill has many dark areas]
Being ……
 
 
my worldly effects which I leave behind
 
[First 8 lines very hard to read]
 
Executors who are hereby impowered to convey the same when---- and the ---- ----- ------ ----- of to be divested in the following manner to wit – and last my will is that my beloved wife Ann shall have and receive one third part of all the neat [?] proceeds of my personal property to will and do with as she may think proper and also the ---------- of one third part of what the real property may sell for during her natural life ------ one third part of the purchase money for my real property is to remain in the hands of the purchaser during her natural life, he paying her lawfull -------- for the same and giving sufficient security for the payment of the principal to my Executors at her decease.
Item second my will is that in two years after my decease my Executors do pay the following legacies to wit, that is to say as my sons Joseph and John Jones have had property already they do pay them each the sum only of three dollars currency – Item and at the same time of two years they also pay my two sons Thomas and Benjamin Jones the sum of twenty five Pounds each  - and at the same time of two years they also pay my son Joshua Jones the sum of three hundred pounds currency –and at the same time of two years they also do pay my daughters Viz. Nancy Vincent, Mary Harvey, Rebecca Jones and Sarah Jones the sum of twenty-five pounds each currency; and as my two daughters Nancy Vincent and Mary Harvey have --- had a bed, bedding and other property to the amount of twenty pounds, my will is that my other two daughters, viz Rebecca Jones and Sarah Jones shall have at appraisement of my personal property a bed, bedding and other property to the amount of twenty pounds and if my property will not after paying all my just Debts and Expenses will not be sufficient to pay the above sums then my will is that they be proportionly [sic] paid to them as above – and should there be any residue or remainder left after paying the above legacies in full, my will then is, that all the residue and remainder, together with the one third part above mentioned to be left in the hands of the purchaser; be paid equally to and between my son Joshua Jones and my daughters Nancy Vincent, Mary Harvey, Rebecca Jones, and Sarah Jones – And lastly, I do hereby nominate and appoint William Bull of Juniata township and Isaac Craven of Greenwood township of Cumberland County to be the Executors of this my last will and testament hereby revoking all other wills by me heretofore made and confirming this to be my last will and testament in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this Eighteenth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and six 1806. Signed sealed published --------    ----------  and delivered to be his last will and testament in-------------------------- [last two lines are almost black at the right side of the page.]
 
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[top line very dark and hard to read]   …… have at his request ---------------------
 
presence of each other the date above written – 1806
 
N.B. The words (the interest of) in the first page, the word(my) in the second page and the words (and delivered) in the last page interlined before signing.
Signed sealed and delivered in the presence of us  }
Alexander Garret        Robert Garret                      }            John Jones     B Smith
 
 
Cumberland County ss
Personally appeared before me Francis Gibson Esquire Register for the Probate of Wills and Granten [sic] Letters of Administration in & for said county Alexander Garret & Robert Garret the two subscribing witnesses to the above Instrument of writing purporting to be the Last Will * testament of John Jones B Smith dec’d and being duly sworn according to law do depose & say that they were personally present &seen the testator sign seal publish & pronounce the same as and for his last will & testament that at the time of his so doing he the testator was of sound and deposing mind and memory as they verily believe that they wrote their names as witnesses thereto at the Request of the testator in his presence and in the presence of each other.
Sworn and subscribed this 9th of August 1806  }          Alexander Garat [sic]
Before me Francis Gibson Register                  }            Robert Garret
 
Cumberland County ss
On the 12th day of August 1806 Letters Testamentary with a copy of the will annexed (of which the above record is a true copy) issues to William Bull & Isaac Craven Executors in the Will named – Inventory and account to be exhibited into the Registers office in the time appointed by law.
Witness my hand.                                                                  Francis Gibson Reg’r