Wills: Abraham Koons, 1813: Bedford Co, PA 

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Abraham Koons is a son of Adam Counts/Koons/Koontz of Bedford County
Pennsylvania. Abraham's will is in Bedford Co. Will Book #1 - page 225.  Abraham was
married to Christina Miller, daughter of John Miller and Margaret Dibert.

ABRAHAM KOONS

This is my last Will and Testament in the name of God, Amen.  This is to be my
Executors and Administrators Henry Koons and John Miller.  And my true and loving
wife Christina is to have and to hold all the property that I now own as long as the
youngest children is of age and then my true and beloved wife is to have her choice of the
rooms, and is to have one cowe and is to have the two hundred pounds is to stand for her
thirds.  And then my beloved daughter Eve is to have one hundred pounds and then my
beloved daughter Susanna is to have one hundred pounds and my beloved daughter
Rachel is to have one hundred pounds and my beloved daughter Catharine is to have one
hundred pounds and the two beloved sons is to have the plantation that I now live on if
they are able to hold it and if not the plantation is to be sold and each of them is have one
hundred pounds and if they be able to hold the plantation they are to have each of them,
two horses and if the daughters gits married they are to have one cowe each of them.
This is my last will and testament sealed and delivered in the presence of witnesses the
2nd day of June 1813

ABRAHAM KOONS
Witnes present
Michael Stifler
George Croyle