Muskingum County OhArchives Wills.....William R. ROBERTS January 17 1829 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Brenda Van Dyke bjvd@columbus.rr.com August 18, 2003, 9:23 pm Source: Muskingum Co., OH; Will Book C, page 48 Written: January 17 1829 Recorded: November 23 1833 WILL OF WM. R. ROBERTS, dec. Court of Common Pleas. November Term 1833 & now to wit on this 23d day of November 1833 the last will and testament of Wm. R. Roberts dec. is produced and Matthew Gillespie & Wm. Anderson the subscribing witnesses being in open Court duly sworn and examined do say that the said will was duly executed and that the testater at the time of executing the same was of full age and sound mind, memory and understanding and not under any restraint and that the said deceased requested the said Matthew & William to sign the same as witnesses thereto and the said will is ordered to be recorded (154). WILL Wm. R. Roberts last will and testament of Newton Township Muskingum County Ohio in the name of God Amen, I William Roberts being deceased in body but sound in mind I doth bequeath here to my dearly beloved wife Frances Roberts & I leave the hole (sic) of my estate real & personal during her widowhood consisting of one farm on which we now live purchased from William Wilson as the deed will fully show. Also my horses, cattle, sheep, hogs, household furniture and two silver watches and what silver I now have and at her death it is to be equally dived (sic) amonge my lawfull heirs. I also wish my dear & beloved wife to use all lawfull indeavors (sic) to preserve the property while she is in charge of the same. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 17th of Jany A.D. 1829. William R. Roberts (seal) Witness Present: M. Gillespie Wm. Anderson This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ohfiles/ File size: 2.1 Kb