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LAST WILL & TESTAMENT OF ALEXANDER McILROY

In the name of God amen I Alexander McILROY of Dublin Township,  Huntington
County who is frail in body but sound in judgment do make this as my last 
will and testament. I do there will and bequeath unto my son John McILROY
my gray mere,  saddle,  bridle,  collar, hems and chains and all my clothes.
And I give unto Robert TAYLOR my young bay mare and allow him in the course 
of five or six years to buy one saddle for his daughter Agnes and one for
Margaret with the note he owes me and I allow him to choose three of my
sheep that I give my grand daughter Mary TAYLOR. I give five pounds of wool 
to my daughter Mary TAYLOR and the other five pound to Mary Ann BIGAM - I
give my grand son Alexander TAYLOR,  my loom and Tacklings my shovel, plow,
large bible - I give my Sister Agnes TAYLOR my other two sheep - It is 
likewise my will that my son Robert McILROY with the forty dollars and two 
cents he owes me as per note dated January second 1813,  to buy one saddle
for John McILROYs daughter Jane, and one for John SIMPSONs daughter Mary
SIMPSON,  In testimony that this is the will of the *(?) Alexander McILROY
wittnesses have set our hands & seals this twenty sixth day of December
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.
James Spear (seal)                                       his
(another name/ I can't read) (seal)            Alexander  X  McILROY
                                                        mark

* This looks like: (S.d) The d is above the period as in an abbreviation.
My guess would be (second).