WILL ADMINISTRATION: George LOWER, 1789, Bedford County, PA

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Will Administration for George Lower, Bedford County, PA, 1789, #2:
"Know all men by these presents, that we Helfrich Deal, Barbara Deal late 
Barbara Lower, Daniel Stoy and Henry Wirth all of the County of Bedford are held 
and firmly bound unto David Espry, Esquire, Register for the Probate of Wills, 
and granting Letters of Administration, in and for the County of Bedford in the 
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in the Sum of two hundred pounds, to be paid to 
the said David Espry Esquire his certain Attorney, Executors, Administrators or 
Assigns: To the which Payment well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves 
jointly and severally for and in the Whole, our Heirs, Executors and 
Administrators, firmly by these Presents. Sealed with our Seals. Dated the sixth 
Day of February in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty 
nine.

The Condition of this Obligation is such, That if the above bounden Helfrich 
Deal and Barbara Deal Administrators of all and singular the Goods, Chattels and 
Credits of George Lower deceased, do make, or cause to be made, a true and 
perfect Inventory of all and singular the Goods, Chattels and Credits of the 
said Deceased, which have or shall come to the Hands, Possession or Knowledge of 
them the said Helfrick Deal and Barbara Deal or into the Hands and Possession of 
any other Person or Persons for them do well and truly administer according to 
Law. And further, do make, or cause to be made, a true and just Account of this 
said Administration, at or before the sixth day of February 1790. And all the 
Rest and Residue of the said Goods, Chattels and Credits which shall be found 
remaining upon the said Administrators Account (the same being first examined 
and allowed of by the Orphans Court of the County of Bedford) shall deliver and 
pay unto such Person or Persons respectively as the said Orphans Court by their 
Decree or Sentence, pursuant to the true Intent and Meaning of the several Laws 
now in Force in this Commonwealth, shall limit and appoint. And if it shall 
thereafter appear, that any last Will and Testament was made by the said 
Deceased, and the Executor or Executors therein named do exhibit the same into 
the said Register's Office, making Request to have it allowed and approved 
accordingly: And if then the above bounden Helfrich & Barbara Deal being 
thereunto required, do render and deliver the said Letters of Administration 
(Approbation of such Testament being first had and made in the said Register's 
Office) then this Obligation to be void and of none Effect, or else to remain in 
full Force and Virtue.

__________________ (seal)
her mark
Barbara X Deal (seal) 
Sealed and Delivered in the Presence of (unreadable)