Other Court: Samuel Beatty, 1831: Armstrong County, PA Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Linda Mockenhaupt. ronm@westol.com USGENWEB NOTICE: Printing this file by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged, as long as all notices and submitter information is included. Any other use, including copying files to other sites requires permission from the submitters PRIOR to uploading to any other sites. We encourage links to the state and county table of contents. ____________________________________________________________ Armstrong County, PA At an orphan's court, held at Kittanning in and for the County of Armstrong, on Tuesday, the 21st day of December, 1831 before the Honorable the judges of the same court. Upon the petition of George J. Crawford Administrator of the estate of Samuel Beatty, late of said County deceased setting forth that the said Samuel Beatty left issue one son, Samuel Beatty. That the personal property of the said intestate is insufficient for the payment of his debts as by the account therewith presented appears and that the said Samuel, the intestate, died seized in his demesne as of fee of and in a certain tract of land situated in Allegheny Twp., in said County, containing 125 acres, more or less, called Beatty's Ferry, bounded by the Allegheny River on the North, by the lands of James Walker on the east, and by the land of ? heirs on the west and others on the south with a log house thereon erected - and praying the court grant him an order to make sale of the said tract of land with the appurtenances for the payment of the debts due by the said intestate - it is ordered by the court, upon due proof and consideration had of the premises, that the said George J. Crawford, administrator as aforesaid, does on Monday, the sixth day of February went between the hours of eleven in the forenoon and four in the afternoon of that day, ? the said ? seized do with the appurtenances to sale by public auction or outcry and sell the same for the purposes in the said ? mentioned - that due public and timely notice of the time and place of sale be given according to the law; and that he make report of his proceedings herein to the ? Orphan's Court to be held for said county, after such sale. By the court, Frederick Rohrer, clerk.