Other Court: Petition to Apportion Plantation of Herman Dehaven, 1761: Amity Twp, Berks Co, PA Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Joy Heape. bheape@redrose.net USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: Printing this file within 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. ____________________________________________________ To the Honourable the Justices of the Orphans Court of Berks County The Petition of Peter Dehaven Eldest Son of Herman Dehaven late of this Township of Amity in the said County Yeoman deceased Humbly sheweth That your Petitioners said father died Intestate about fifteen Years since leaving a Widow, to wit, Mary (now the Wife of Nicholas Schneider) and Issue four Children, to wit, The Petitioner, John, Mary the Wife of Henry Boyer and Jacob the last named of whom is yet a minor, And that the said Intestate died seized in fee of and in A Certain Messuage or Tenement Plantation and Tract of Land situate in the Township of Amity aforesaid adjoining Lands now or late of Hugh Mitchel David Davis & others and the River Schuylkill Containing Five Hundred Acres, or thereabouts, be the same more or less, with the Appurtenances (whereof one hundred Acres were since sold by Order of the Orphans Court aforesaid.) Your Petitioner therefore humbly prays your Honours to award an Inquest to make Partition of the said Messuage or Tenement and Residue of the said Tract of Land to and among the Children and Representatives of the said Intestate if such Partition can be thereof made without Prejudice to and spoiling the Whole thereof; But if such Partition cannot be made without Prejudice to and spoiling the Whole of the said Real Estate then your Petitioner further Prays your Honours to order and direct the said Inquest to value and appraise the said Real Estate in Order that the Petitioner may hold & enjoy the same upon Paying or Securing to be paid to the other Children of the said Intestate their respective Share of such Valuation, agreeable to the Act of General Assembly of this Province of Pennsylvania in such Case made and provided. Reading February 15th, 1775. And he will pray (signed) Peter Dehaven ____________________________________________________ Inquisition indented and taken at the Township of Amity in the County of Berks the twenty Eighth Day of March in the Year of Our Lord One thousand seven hundred and seventy five Before Henry Vanderslice Esquire High Sheriff of the said County by Virtue of His MajestyÕs Writ to him directed and to this Inquisition annexed by the Oath of [these names all in same handwriting] John Biship John Bathel William Winter Mounce Jones Peter Fisher David Davis John Kerling and Peter Jones and the Solemn Affermation of Mordecai Lincoln Bengaman Tayllman Derick Pennabacker and Henry Lear twelve free honest and lawful Men of the Court aforesaid Who upon their Oath and Affirmation aforesaid respectively Do say That they went to the Messuage or Tenement Plantation and Tract of Land in the said Writ mentioned with the Appurtenances whereof Herman Dehaven in the said Writ named died seised and then and there did find that the same could not be parted and divided to and among the Parties in the said Writ named without Prejudice to or Spoiling the Whole thereof, and therefore the Inquest aforesaid upon their Oath and Affirmation aforesaid have valued and appraised the said Messuage or Tenement Plantation and Tract of Land (Except One hundred Acres thereof sold by Order of Orphans Court) with the Appurtenances at the Sum of Twelve Hundred and fourteen pounds------- Lawful Money of Pennsylvania Subject to the Purchase Money Interest and Quit Rent now due and hereafter to become due and payable to the Honourable the Proprietaries of the Province aforesaid their Heirs and Successors for the same In Testimony whereof as well the said Sheriff as the Inquest aforesaid have hereunto interchangeably set their Hands and Seals the Day and Year above said. [signatures] Henry Vanderslice John Kirlin John Bishop Sheriff Peter Jones [illegible] Mordecai Lincoln William Winter Benja Tallman Mounce Jones Derik Pennybacker [illegible] Henry Lehr David Davis (See above list for confirmation and probably names of illegibles.) [NOTE: Derik Pennybacker (by marriage) and David Davis are probable cousins to the deceased, Herman Dehaven.] ______________________________________________ Property was not partitioned and money was paid to the other three children of Herman DeHaven. ...John Dehaven... same amount ...unto Henry Boyer of Frederick Township in the County of Philadelphia Yeoman, who intermarried with Mary the Daughter of the said Herman Dehaven deceased, in the Sum of Four hundred and eighty five Pounds and twelve Shillings lawful Money of Pennsylvania... ...John Umsted of the Township of Union in the said County Yeoman Guardian of the Person and Estate of Jacob Dehaven, One of the Sons of the said Deceased... same amount Each of the papers giving each of the children their shares is signed by Peter Dehaven (who bought them out) and also: Nicholas Bunn - of the Township of Douglass in Berks Co., Scrivener David Weidner - of the Township of Amity in Berks Co., Yeoman David Weidner signed in German characters. It says these two men "were approved as Sureties, to enter into Bonds with the said Peter Dehaven Eldest Son of the said Intestate for the Payment of the Shares and Dividends of the younger Children of the said Deceased..." .