Wills: JOHNSON, John  1731: Newtown, Bucks Co, PA

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Bucks County Wills
Book A, Vol. 1 p. 149
John Johnson, 1731

To all whome it may Concern Greeting I john Johnson of Newtown In the 
County of Bucks in the Province of Pensilvania being Indisposed and sick 
of Body but of Sound & Disposing mind and memory Thanks be to the Lord for 
the same but Calling to mind the uncertainty of my Time in the World do 
make & ordain this my Last Will & Testament In form & manner following Viz 

first of all and principally I Bequeath my Soul unto the hands of 
Allmighty God that gave it and my Body to be Buryed at the Discretion of 
my Executors hereafter named And Secondly in will & mind -- that all my 
Just Debts & Funerall Expenses be payd and Discharged ITEM, my will & mind 
is and I do hereby give full Power to my Executors hereafter named to Sell 
and Dispose of all my Estate both Real & Personall and --- the same as is 
hereafter Directed and if they shall Conv--nt to sell my Land & plantation 
now in my Possession, they shall have full Power to make good & Lawfull 
Title of Inheritance Thereunto so will my said Executors or ye Survivors 
of them and untill my said estate be Turned into money my Children 
hereafter named shall be supported and maintained by our --- of the whole 
bu- --- soon as the same by my Said Executors shall be Reduced unto money 
I Give & Bequeath unto my Beloved Wife Margarett Johnson out of ye said 
money the sum of Twenty Pounds Current money and the Remaining part or 
Residue thereof I give and Devise Equally unto my two Sons to wit Lawrance 
Johnson & Abraham Johnson that is ---Item I Give the same for Educating & 
Bringing up my said Children at the Discretion of my said Executors & what 
shall remain of ye. said money they shall receive at the age of Twenty one 
years and if either of them shall Decease before that age the other shall 
receive his share and if both of them shall Decease before the said age 
then what Belongs to them shall be Equally Divided & my aforesaid Wife 
Margaret Johnson shall have one half thereof and my Brother Abraham 
Johnson shall have the other And Lastly I Do Constitute appoint & Nominate 
my Trusty Friends Euclydis Longshore and Joseph Wildman whole & sole 
Executors of this my Last will & Testament unto whom Together with my 
Loving Wife I do Committ and Leave the whole Care and Disposing of my 
aforesaid Two Children An I do hereby revoke Disanull & make voyd all 
former wills and Testaments by me heretofore made In Witness whereof I the 
said John Johnson to this my Last Will and Testament have set my Hand & 
Seal This Twenty Ninth Day of July Anno domini One Thousand Seven Hundred 
& Thirty one 1731
							John Johnson
Signed Sealed Published & Declared by the above John Johnson to be his 
Last Will & Testament in the Presence of us
Rachel Janney
William Carny (his Mark)
Thomas Heard (his mark)