Allegheny County PA Archives Wills.....Williams, Isaac February 8, 1838 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/allegheny ************************************************ http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/allegheny/wills/williams-isaac.txt File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Beth Kalal bethkalalphd8@cs.com June 12, 2008, 3:02 am Source: Will Book 4, Fhl Microfilm # 0,858,900 Written: February 8, 1838 Recorded: February 27, 1838 The Will of Isaac Williams -1838 Volume 4, Will Books, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, FHL Microfilm # 0,858,900 [Note parts of this will on the microfilm were impossible to read, even under high power magnification. Those parts are indicated by the notation “— “] “p. 443., no. 285 The Last Will and Testament of Isaac Williams} In the name of God Amen. I Isaac Williams of the Township of St. Clair in the County of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania being extremely reduced in bodily health and strength but of sound mind and memory to prevent difficulties and misunderstandings after my death whenever it may please God that shall take place Do make this my last will and testament as hereafter follows viz imprimis I do request and enjoin on my Executors hereafter to be named to call and collect (next page) p 444 all sums due to my estate and to fray my funeral expenses and my other just debts as soon as it may be done after my decease. 2nd. Agnes Williams my wife I leave all my property real personal or mixed to occupy and use as she may think proper by leasing the whole fields to crop or putting personal property and stock to public sale as all in my present occupancy as well as where my son John lives shall be under her control while she may live or she shall continue my widow but if she shall marry again she shall in such case relinquish all claim as above to real and personal estate and take as hers one exclusively one horse saddle and bridle, one cow the best bed and bedding and two hundred Dollars in money. 3rd To my son John Williams I leave and bequeath fifty six acres and one hundred and thirty nine perches surveyed and laid off the south west corner of my farm by Nathaniel Patterson. Surveyed on the 17th August 1819 as per draft in my possession, conditioned that he John shall pay to his sister Sarah Bausman and her heirs within two years after my decease the sum of three hundred dollars without interest. 4th To the heirs of my daughter Amelia Williams intermarried with John Hulse I leave and bequeath the sum of fifteen dollars in money to be appropriated to the purchase of a head and foot stone to their mother’s grave, if such have been purchased before this item comes to have then it is to be equally divided equally between the father and children my son Isaac Williams is adjoined to pay this sum within one year after my decease. 5th To my daughter Elizabeth Williams widow of John Williams Mason of St. Clair Township deceased and to her children after her I leave and bequeath three acres of land to be laid off in a Parallelogram with the long side of the line of the old Washington Road a survey of forty acres and one hundred and one perches in the South East Corner of my farm as hereafter to be devised to my son Robert together with the sum of fifty dollars in money to be paid by son Isaac as the first legacy paid. 6th To my daughter Agnes Williams intermarried with Nathaniel Patterson Surveyor of St. Clair Township and to her children I leave and bequeath the sum of two hundred dollars one hundred of which has been paid already for Patterson to John Hulse as due to estate of Henry Keever (sp?) 7th To my daughter Sarah Williams intermarried with Reinhart Bausman, Esq Of Birmingham St. Clair Township and to her children I leave and bequeath the sum of three hundred dollars and my John is bound to pay the same without interest within five years after my decease. 8th. To my daughters Margaret and Mary Williams still single and at home with me I leave and bequeath — each the sum of one thousand dollars (end of page) P. 445 to be paid as follows viz: to each four hundred dollars of the sum due from Hugh McClean of Beaver on the first of April 1838. Item this shall be a lien on my old farm and mansion for their support and maintenance in sickness and in health or if they should choose to live separate from their mother and brother as in hereafter will be explained they shall have choice of either of the houses to live in, to be supported with plenty of fuel both summer and winter and the house to be kept in good, tenantable, repair and thus to continue and this to continue while they remain single, but if both or either of them should marry then both or each to take a bed or bedding and cow and my sons Isaac and Robert are herein bound Isaac to fray Margaret five hundred dollars, and Robert to fray Mary five hundred dollars within five years after such marriage at the rate of one hundred dollars a years without interest, but if either or both of them should not survive the five years or , or die without lawful issue the amount remaining unpaid to them or either of them shall revert back to Isaac or Robert as the case may be. 9th To my youngest son Robert Shawhan Williams I leave and bequeath a plot of forty acres and one hundred and one perches, surveyed & laid off the south east corner of my farm by Nathaniel Patterson surveyor, on the 16th August 1819 as per drafts in my possession, reserving therefrom three acres in the very south east corner, as already devised to Elizabeth Williams, also the one half of fourteen hundred Dollars paid to Robert Bigham of St. Clair Township if recovered from said Bigham. 10th To my son Isaac Williams I leave and bequeath the remainder of my farm whereon I now live containing the Mansion and other buildings with all the farming utensils the whole stock and other articles appertaining to and now on the place; containing and being eighty seven acres be the same more or less, conditional that he shall sup and maintain his mother and single sisters together in family estate subject to the advice and direction of his mother as per 2nd item of this Testament or in case of his own or his sisters marrying, or he or they may choose to live separate he shall be bound to full fill the 8th Item of this Testament with regard to said single sisters Margaret & Mary Williams. 11th Lastly I do here by appoint my wife Agnes Williams and my son Isaac Williams Jr. and I hereby appoint Doctor James Agnew of Pittsburg and request him to act as Executor of this my last will and Testament. X As witness my hand this Eighth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight. Isaac Williams Seal Signed and Sealed in presence of James Agnew M.D. George Darnbrougle [sp?] Robert M [sp?] P. Slater p. 446 Allegheny County, Pa Be it remembered that on the 27th day of February 1838 personally came before me D. Gilliland, Register in and for said County James Agnew, MD George & — & P Slater and on the same day personally came before J. U. Buchanan Deputy Register Robert C. McFarlan the above subscribing witnesses being severally sworn declare and say that they heard Isaac Williams the Testator acknowledge publish and declare the foregoing instrument of writing as and for his last will and testament and that at the time of so doing he was of sound and disposing mind and to the best of their knowledge and belief N. Patterson also on the same day deposed to the next two attached papers as the ones referred to in the will. They being enclosed in the will and sealed when it was filed in this office. Witness my hand the above date. D. Gilliland, Reg. The above draught is of a survey made August 16th 1819 of the South East part of Isaac Williams’s farm containing one hundred and one perches strict measure. N. Patterson. The above is a draft of a survey made August 17th 1819 of the South West part of Isaac Williams farm containing one fifty five acres and one hundred and thirty nine perches strict measure. — Original — from the hickory to the — of beginning was not measured but taken agreeable to the old draft. N. Patterson. Allegheny County, Pa Be it remembered that on the 27th day of February 1838 Personally came before me D. Gilliland Register Allegheny County N. Patterson the above artist who being sworn p. 447 Sworn before me, D. Gilliland, Register N. Patterson Allegheny County., Pa Be it remembered that on the 27th day of February AD 1838 Letters Testamentary with the Will arrived on the estate of Isaac Williams decd were duly granted to Agnes Williams Isaac Williams, Jr. and Doctor James Agnew Executors in said will named who were duly sworn well and truly to administer the goods and chattels rights and credits which were of the said decd and a true inventory and appraisement made of the personal property and file the same in this office within one month and settle the account of their administration within one year or when there unto legally required and also to comply with the provisions of act of assembly of this Commonwealth entitled An act relating to collateral inheritance. Given under my hand the above date. D. Gilliland Register Recorded February 27, 1838" To the best of my ability, certain words being particularly difficult to decipher. The underlining and spelling are the same as in the original. Transcription by Beth Ann Burdick Kalal, Ph.D., to the best of my ability San Diego Chapter National Society Daughters of the American Revolution January, 2008 From Will Book 4, Allegheny Co., Pennsylvania From FHL Microfilm # 0,858,900 This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/pafiles/ File size: 10.5 Kb