WILL: Thomas JOHNSTON, 1813, Huntingdon County, PA File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Sarah Chapman Csgtpepper@aol.com June 23, 2006, 9:36 am Copyright 2006. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ________________________________________________ Source: Huntingdon County Courthouse Written: 1813 Recorded: April 12, 1813 Last will and testament of Thomas Johnston Dec I Thomas Johnston of the county of Huntingdon and township of Huntingdon and state of Pennsylvania in the name of God Amen Being in a bad state of health but sound in mind and memorey the things of this world that the Lord has been pleased to bestow on me for my use tamamints to dispose and bequeath them in following names after paying all my just debts and funeral expences to be paid eight of my estate please onto my wife Marey Johnston to be paid onto her by my three sons John William and Robert Johnston what will be a sufficient loving dwelling her natural life and to bury her decently when she is dead and if she dose not chose to live with any of her sons the are to pay his eighty dollars a a year during her natural life she is to have the use of all the household furniture and at her disposal and the use of a horse to ride when wanted Leave onto my tow daughters Sarah Chandler and Marey Martin the same of one hundred pounds each forby what they have got before to be paid by my three sons in one year after my son Robert is of age and leave to my three sons John William and Robert all my estate both real and personal for there use and at there disposal and constitute my son John and my sons William to be my exactors and if it pleased the Lord to takeaway at this time Talow them to rent ought the stand here on the Road until my son Robert comes of age and to move onto the Farm with reserving to themselves the liberty of building a end to the taverning House and a kitchen and when Robert comes of age there property to be equally divided in three shears some Land to be taken off the cold place to be put if any of my three sons should day before the should have any children of there own there part is to go to the surviving brother or brothers the olds farm for my son John the stand on the road with part of the old places as part mix to Dorseys to my son Robert witch I have set my hand and seal this twelfth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirteen in the presence of Stephen Minton John Laird signed Thomas Johnston Huntingdon county Before me the subscribers register for the probate of wills warranting letters of administration in and for the said county came above named Stephen Minton and being duly sworn according to law the above named Thomas Johnston published pronounce and declare the above foregoing instrument of writing as and for his last will and testament that at the time of such signing the said testator was of sound and disposing mind and memory according to the best of this deponents knowledge and belief and that he this deponent signed his name thereto as a witness in the presence of the testator and at his request and that John Laird the other subscribing witness set his name thereto in the prescence of the testator and at his request and in the presence of this deponent that the name John Laird thereunto subscribed as witneys is in the proper hand writing of the said John Laird Sworn and Subscribed 29th Oct 1813 before William Steel signed Stephen Minton John Johnston William Johnston of Thomas Johnston Memorandom Letter testamentary in common form were this day granted to John Johnston and William Johnston of the estate of Thomas Johnston dec'd inventory to be exhibited on or before the 29th day of November next ? Just indenture amount of the administration on or before the 29th day of October in the year 1814 on when ther unto legally negured given under the seal of office the 29th day of October 1813 William Steel register This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/pafiles/ File size: 4.2 Kb