COURT: Nicholas CRUM Estate Petition of John KING and Henry CRUM, 1805, Huntingdon County, PA

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Huntingdon Co. Court House  Orphan's Court Docket B  File E No. 38

	The Petition of John King and Henry Crum was read as follows viz.

	To the Honorable Judges of the Court of Common Pleas at an Orphans Court 
held at Huntingdon for the County of Huntingdon on the 17th day of September 
1805.

	The Petition of John King and Henry Crum administrators of all and 
singular the goods and Chattels rights and Credits which were of Nicholas Crum 
late of the county aforesaid Yeoman deceased.

Humbly Shewith 
	That the said Intestate left issue eight Children to wit, Henry Crum the 
eldest, one of your Petitioners, Nicholas Catharine Frederick Jacob Peter Tobias 
and Isaac the five last named of whom are in their minority.  That the personal 
estate of the said Intestate is insufficient for the payment of his debts as by 
the account herewith produced appears and that the said Intestate died seized in 
his demesne as of fee of and in a certain tract of land situate in Union 
Township Huntingdon County on the Waters of big Trough Creek containing three 
hundred acres, be the same more or less adjoining lands of John Swagger, John 
Griffiths, and others on which is erected a grist and saw mill with all and 
singular its appurtenances.  Your Petitioners therefore Humbly Pray your Honors 
to grant them an order to make sale of the said above described tract of land 
with the appurtenances for the payment of the debts and education and 
maintenance of the minor Children of the said Intestate.

Whereupon it is considered by the Court and ordered that the said tract of land 
be sold on Friday the fifteenth day of November next on the premises.  One third 
of the purchase money to be paid in hand one third in twelve months. and the 
remaining third in two equal yearly payments.  And that notice of the sale be 
given in the Huntingdon Gazette, in the Lancaster journal & in Albrights German 
Paper.