Adams County PA Archives Wills.....Mullen, John November 15, 1780
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Source: York County, Pennsylvania Wills
Written: November 15, 1780
Recorded: March 26, 1781

Last Will and Testament of John Mullen, No. 294, Proved March 26th, 1781
In the Name of god Amen.
I John Mullen of Berwick Township in County of York and State of Pennsylvania 
= Yoeman, being very sick, and weak in body but of perfect mind and memory, 
thanks be given to god calling to mind the mortality of my body, Do make and 
ordain this my last will and Testament in manner and form following.  I 
recommend my soul into the hand of Almight god that gave it, and my body, I 
recommend to the Earth to be buried in Decent Christian Burial at the 
Discretion of my Executors, and as touching such Worldly Estate wherewith it 
has pleased god to bless one in this Life, I give, devise and dispose of the 
same in the following manner and form that is to say, first, I will, that all 
these Debts and dues that I Owe in right and conscience to any manner of 
person or persons whatsoever, shall be well and truly contented and paid, or 
Ordained to be paid, within convenient time after my Decease, by the Executors 
hereafter named, in manner following, that is to say I order all the Debts 
contracted by me before the beginning of this present War to be paid in Money 
equal in Value to those Debts at the time or times they were contracted, and I 
farther order that the Leather which shall be in my House at the time of my 
Death be Worked and made into shoes for sale by a good tradesman to be hired 
for that purpose and likewise I farther order, That the Clock which is in my 
dwelling House at present and all the furniture that can be spared in my said 
Dwelling House, along with the shoes above mentioned when they are finished, 
by exposed to Sale by way of Public Vendue, for the payment of the remainder 
of my Debts.  And I Will all the remainder of my estate for the support and 
maintenance of my well Beloved Wife Allice Mullen and my children, and in case 
it shall not be sufficient for that purpose, I will that my Eldest Daughter 
Deborah be bound and put out as an apprentice to some Creditable family, until 
she arrives at the age of Eighteen years.  I likewise Will and Order, that my 
Well Beloved Son Ebenezer when he arrives to the Age of Fourteen Years, and I 
will my youngest Son Joshua to be used in like manner be bound as an 
Apprentice to some Trade of his own choosing, and continue bound to that Trade 
until he arrives to the Age of Twenty Years and no longer, and that he be 
bound Apprentice as above said to a Master who professes and adheres to the 
Principles of the church of Scotland Established by law, and to none else.  I 
likewise Constitute make and Ordain James Taggert Junior and Edward Abbett 
both my Brothers in Law Executors of this my last Will and Testament, and I do 
hereby utterly disallow and Revoke all former Testaments, Wills, Legacies and 
Executors, Ratifying and Confirming this and no other to be my last Will and 
Testament.  For Witness whereof I have here unto set my hand and Seal this 
fifteenth Day of November in the year of our Lord One thousand Seven hundred 
and eighty.

John Mullen

Signed Sealed published pronounced and Declared by said John Mullen as his 
last Will and Testament in the presence of us H.B. the above was interlined 
before the Signing of these presents
James Taggert Junior
John Robertson
John Louis  

Additional Comments:
Orphan Court Record:  York County, Pennsylvania - 25 Day of March 1785.
Estate finalized with death of John Mullen's wife.  Died intestate.  Property 
disposed of to pay debts by the Executors.  No mention of children's names in 
this document.