Huntingdon-Blair County PA Archives Wills.....Kyle, Samuel February 16 1827 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Jessica Orr orr@hawaii.com January 26, 2005, 4:04 am Source: Sampubco Written: February 16 1827 Recorded: August 23 1827 Last Will & Testament of Samuel Kyle, Esq. Dec'd In the name of God Amen. I Samuel Kyle of Tyrone township, Huntingdon County and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania being some what indisposed in body but of sound and perfect mind and memory and knowing the uncertainty of life and that it is appointed for all living once to die and in order to promise peace and unanimity amongst those concerned and for One _____ easy and ready settling and disposing of that portion of the ____ things in which it hath pleased the Lord to bestow upon me in this lifes (In primis) _____ resign my immortal and never dying soul to him from whom I received it who is God of Gods and Lord of Lords and my mortal body to the earth from whence came to be interred in a Christian like manner in full belief that it shall rise again at that rat and general day when all shall hence forth that God may judge them. Item first I order that all my just and lawful debts be first punctually paid. I together with the cost and agencies accruing from my funeral out of my personal estate. Item second I leave and bequeath to my well beloved wife Jennet Kyle the use and benefit of the old end of the dwelling house both above and below during her natural life with one half of the garden and part of the spring house for her milk and I also bequeath to my said wife two of her choice of my beds and bedsteads and clothes fitting for the same and I bequeath to her the half of what grain that would come to me yearly from the Tenant of wheat rye corn buckwheat and oats and ten bushel of potatoes yearly and also fifteen dollars in cash yearly during her natural life and she is to have the Bay horse known by the name of Charley and the Bald mare's colt and her choice of two of the milk cows and her choice of two of the milk cows and her choice of six sheep out of the flock and my said wife is to have a sufficiency of pastuer in the summer for horses cowes and sheep and also a sufficience of hay of the farm yearly for them in the winter and stable for horse and cows in the winter and my said wife is to have half in bushel of flexen sowed for her yearly on the farm and to be put in for her in good _____ & in good order and she is to hae use of the clock and carpets in the house during her life and I leave her fifty dollars of the Huntingdon Bank stock with interest on the same until paid and she is also have the large copper cattle (kettle?) and tubs and kitchen furniture as much as she thinks necessary for her to keep during her life and her saddle and to a sufficient quantity of firewood cut and halled to her early during her life, and to Susana Campbell during the time of her Indenture and my said wife is to have six of her choice of the chairs in the house and she is to have also the woolen and linen yarn and cloth and the wool of the flock of sheep this spring if not _______ my decease. 3rd I leave and bequeath to Nance Haggarty one white cow known by the name of her cow and I leave also to her six sheep if there are so many of her mark alive. 4th I leave and bequeath to Samuel Edie Kyle Duncan the sum of two hundred dollars lawful money of the United States to be aid to his guardian for the use of the said Samuel Edie Kyle Duncan four years after my decease and I leave to the said Samuel Edie Kyle Duncan my watch. 5th I leave and bequeath to my dutiful daughter Nancy Buchanan for the use and benefit of her legal heirs the one half of the remaining part of my real and personal property after the aforesaid bequest and legacies are fully satisfied and paid. I leave my said daughter Nancy the one half of the remainder of the Huntingdon Bank stock belonging to me after what is already bequeathed also the half of my part of the Indiana and Cambria Turnpike stock and the one half of a tract of land in Indiana County to her and to her legal heirs forever and also the half of what money is due by James Richards of Armstrong County or otherwise if not paid by said Richards the half of said tract purchased by him from me and I also bequeath to my said daughter Nancy Buchanan the one half my land in Sinking Valley after the decease of my beloved wife, to her and her heirs forever. 6th, I leave and bequeath to my dutiful daughter Margaret Kyle alias Margaret Duncan for the use and benefit of her legal heirs the one half of my estate real and personal in equal proportion with my daughter Nancy after the forementioned legacies are fully paid or satisfied that is the half of the remainder of the Huntingdon Bank stock after the first bequest out of are fully paid the half of my part of the Indiana and Cambria turnpike stock and the half of a tract of land in Indiana County to her and her legal heir forever and also the half of what money is due by James Richards for a tract of land bought by said Richards from me lying in Armstrong County and in case said James Richards are not able to pay for said tract of land, I leave and bequeath the half of said tract to my said daughter Margaret Duncan to her and her heirs forever and I bequeath the half of my estate in Sinking Valley after the decease of my beloved wife Jenet Kyle to Margaret Duncan and her heir forever. I do hereby bequeath and leave to my wife and executors my library of books to be amicably those of a religious nature then those on Arithmatick, Mathematics of the Law to be divided between George Buchanan and Samuel Duncan. And I do hereby constitute make and ordain Jennet Kyle Executrix and George Buchanan and Samuel Duncan my sole Executors of this my last Will and Testament and I do authorize those my said Executors of make sale of any of my Back lands or any part of said back lands sold by me for my said Executors to make a deed or deeds of Conveyance for the same as available in law or equity as if I myself were personally present to the said purchaser or purchasers. And I do hereby utterly disallow revoke disannul all and every other and former will Testament Will legacies bequests and Executor by me or any before named Willed and bequeathed satisfying and confirming this and no other to be last Will & Testament. I witnof whereof I have thereunto set my hand and seal this sixteenth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred twenty seven 1827. /s/ Samuel Kyle Signed, sealed. Pronounced & declared by the said Samuel Kyle in presence of us William McCormick, Edie Stewart. Huntingdon County: Before me the subscriber Register for the probate of Wills & granting Letters of Administration in and for the County of Huntingdon personally appeared William McCormick and Edie Stewart who being sworn according to law, depose and say that they were personally present and did see and hear the within named Samuel Kyle sign, seal, execute, publish, pronounce and declare the within and foregoing instrument of writing as and for his last Will & Testament and that they the said William McCormick & Edie Stewart did sign their names thereto as witness in presence of each other and in the presence of the Testator, and at his instance and request and that the said Testator was at the time of sound and disposing mind memory and understanding to the best of their knowledge and belief. /s/ William McCormick Edie Stewart Sworn and subscribed the 23rd of Aug. 1827 /s/ D. N. Porter, Reg. Jane Kyle, George Buchanan and Samuel Duncan, Executor of the Last Will and Testament of Samuel Kyle, Esq. Dec'd. Memorandum: Letters Testamentary were this day granted to Jane Kyle, George Buchanan and Samuel Duncan, Executor of the last Will & Testament of Samuel Kyle late of Tyrone Township, Esq. Dec'd. Inventory to be exhibited within one month and a just and true account calculation and reckoning of their said Administration within one year. Given under seal of office 23rd Aug. 1827. /s/ D. N. Porter, Regtr. Additional Comments: Although the Will gives his wife's name as Jennet or Jenet, she is referred to as Jane in the following Memorandum. This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/pafiles/ File size: 8.6 Kb