WILL: Peter POOL, 1861, 1864, Tyrone Township, Blair County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Jeffrey Gerber Copyright 2008. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/blair/ _________________________________________ Blair County Will Book B, page 196 The Last Will and Testament of Peter Pool, dec'd. I Peter Pool of the Township of Tyrone, County of Blair and State of Pennsylvania, do make and publish this my Last Will and Testament, hereby revoking and making void all former wills by me at any time heretofor made. - And first - as to such worldly estate as it hath pleased God to entrust me with. I do dispose of the same as follows. I direct that all my debts and funeral expenses be paid as soon after my death as possible out of the first moneys that shall come into the hands of my executors herein after named from any portion of my estate. I direct that my executors or the survivor of them cause all my personal effects to be appraised and my wife if she be then living to have to amount of one third of said appraisement to be selected by her to hold and possess the same during her natural life or so long as she remains my widow. At her death, or if she marry again, the same to revert to the benefit of my heirs hereinafter directed, the remainder of my personal effects to be sold at public or private sale and the nett proceeds thereof with any moneys that may be in their hands from my estate after the payment of all my just debts and expenses to be distributed by them as follows. Share and share alike between my three daughters hereinafter named. I also further order and direct my executors or the survivor of them as soon after my decease as they may think proper to sell at public or private sale my mansion tract of land where on I now reside with the appurtenances for such price or prices and on such terms, cash or otherwise as they may consider most advantageous. The one third of the purchase money to remain in the purchasers hand so long as my wife may live or remain my widow, the interest to be annually paid to her. If my said executors can make any other satisfactory arrangement with her, by a specific payment in lieu of said interest, they are directed to do so. And the nett proceeds of my real estate I direct to be distributed as follows: One hundred dollars to be paid to my daughter Margaret intermarried with John McMullen. One hundred dollars to be paid to my daughter Sarah Ann intermarried with John W Hasson - Said two payments being made, I direct that the balance be paid, one third to my daughter Margaret herein named one third to my daughter Sarah Ann herein named and the remaining third to be placed at interest and the said interest to be annually paid to my daughter Wilhelminah intermarried with Curtis Kidder during her natural life, and at her death to be paid to her children then living, share and share alike. And for the purpose aforesaid, I do hereby authorise and empower my said executors or the survivor of them to sign, seal, execute, and deliver such deed of conveyance as may be necessary for the granting and issuing said tract of land to the purchaser thereof. And I do hereby nominate constitute and appoint my trust worthy neighbours James Crawford and Joseph Crawford executors of this my last will and testament. In witness whereof I Peter Pool the said testator have herewith set my hand and seal this seventh day of December in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty one. (The word seal interlined before signing) Signed Sealed and Acknowledged in the presence of us who have subscribed the same in the presence of testator and of each other. Peter Pool {Seal} James Clarke John Keith I Peter Pool Testator named in Will on this sheet of paper desire that said Will be altered and amended where my Executors are required to pay my daughter Wilhelminah the interest annually on that share of my real estate to which she will be entitled so long as she may live - It is my will and desire that if her husband Curtis Kidder should die before her that my Executors proceed to collect and pay to my said daughter Wilhelminah the principal of the dower herein willed to her children, and the same to be my said daughters absolute. In Witness whereof I Peter Pool Testator as aforesaid have hereunto set my hand and seal to this codicil of my Last Will and Testament this second day of May Eighteen Hundred and Sixty Two - Peter Pool {Seal} Signed Sealed and delivered in the presence of us who have subscribed the same in presence of Testator - James Clarke John Biegel Blair County SS - Before me the Register for the Probate of Wills and granting letters of Administration in and for Blair County personally appeared James Clark & John Keith who being duly sworn did depose and say that they were personally present and did hear and see the above named Peter Pool sign, seal, execute, publish, pronounce and declare the within and foregoing instrument of writing as and for his Last Will and Testament that they signed their names as Witnesses thereto in the presence of each other and in the presence & at the request of the said Testator, and that at the signing of the same the said Testator was sound and desposing mind, memory and understanding to the best of their knowledge and belief. James Clarke John Keith Sworn and subscribed before me this 11th day of June AD 1862 - H A Caldwell, Register. Blair County SS - Before me the Register for the Probate of Wills and granting letters of Administration and for the said County personally came James Clarke and John Biegel who being duly sworn did depose and say they were personally present and did see and hear Peter Pool sign seal execute, publish, pronounce and declare the within and foregoing instrument of writing appended to this paper to be a Codicil to and part of his Last Will and Testament that they signed their names as Witnesses thereto in the presence of each other and in the presence and at the request of the said Testator, and at the time of signing of the said Codicil, the said Testator was of sound and disposing mind memory and understanding to the best of their knowledge and belief. - Sworn and Subscribed before me this 11th day of June AD 1862 - H A Caldwell James Clark John Biegel Registered June 11th 1862 by H A Caldwell Reg. Register. Fees $4.30 Tax $.50 $4.80 Paid Matthew Stewart & John McMullen Administrators cum testamento annexo of Peter Pool dec'd. Bond in $1000 00 Thad. McMullen and David K. Reamey?, ___? Memorandum: Renunciation of James & Joseph Crawford & widows filed, and Letters of Administration cum testamento annexo issued this day to Matthew Stweart & John McMullen on the estate of Peter Pool, late of Tyrone Township, Blair County, dec'd. An Inventory of the goods to be exhibited in thirty days and a just and true account, calculation, & reckoning of their said administration within one year from this date hereof or when thereunto legally required or In Testimony whereof the forgoing is given under my hand and official seal at Hollidaysburg, June 11th, 1862. - Inventory filed June 30th 1862. Vendue List filed some day ___. Real Estate Bond filed Sept 26th, 1862 - Partial Acct filed Dec 18th 1862. Certified to O. Court to Jany. 2, 1864.