OHIO STATEWIDE FILES  OH-FOOTSTEPS Mailing List Issue 71

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OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest				Volume 03 : Issue 71

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  #1 [OH-FOOT] WILL: Silas Skeels, 1860   ["Fred Taber" <ftaber@meta-net.net>]

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Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 07:44:23 -0400
From: "Fred Taber" <ftaber@meta-net.net>
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Subject: [OH-FOOT] WILL: Silas Skeels, 1860, Seneca County
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I Silas Skeels of the county of Seneca in the state of 
Ohio do make and publish this my last will and testament
in manner from following (?) that is to say.
First I give and devise to my oldest son Nelson D. Skeels
two hundred dollars.
Second I give and devise to my eldest daughter Nancy Jennett
Tabor one hundred and twenty five dollars.
Third I give and devise to my daughter Jane Caroline Scott
one hundred and twenty five dollars.
Fourth I give and devise to my daughter Hepsey Skeels four
hundred and fifty dollars and one ... (?) to have her choice.
Fifth I give and devise to my daughter Sally Sarah two hundred
and twenty five dollars.
Sixth I give and devise to my daughter Samantha two hundred
dollars.
Seveneth I give and devise to my daughter Amelia two hundred
and fifty dollars.

 
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Ninth (?) I give and devise to my grandson Burton Skeels 
fourty acres of land that I own in Fulton County.
Tenth it is my will that my executors sell my s...able (?)
property and pay my just debts and expenses and the aforesaid
sums of money and if my my s...able (?) property will not pay 
the aforesaid sums then the balance must be paid out of my
real estate.
Eleventh I give and devise the balance of my estate to my four
sons Benjamin, Orace, Silas B., George P. Skeels.
And lastly I do hereby nominate and appoint Benjamin Skeels
and John Hall executors of this my last will and testament and
do hereby revoke all former wills by me made. In testimony
...... (?) I have .....(?) set my hand and seal this eighth
day of October AD 1860. Signed and acknowledged.

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and testament in
our presence and    Silas Skeels 
signed by us in    [signed and sealed]
his presence.

David W. Hall [signed]
John Potes [signed]

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