Wills: Isaac Crum, 1831, Summerhill Township, Cambria County, Pennsylvania Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Susan Crum ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: All documents placed in the USGenWeb Archives remain the property of the contributors, who retain publication rights in accordance with US Copyright Laws and Regulations. In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, these documents may be used by anyone for their personal research. They may be used by non-commercial entities, when written permission is obtained from the contributor, so long as all notices and submitter information are included. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit. Any other use, including copying files to other sites, requires permission from the contributors PRIOR to uploading to the other sites. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/cambria/wills/crum-isaac.txt *********************************************************************** Transcribed from SAMPUBCO copy by Susan Crum Cambria County, Pennsylvania Will Book Vol. 1, page 79 LAST WILL & TESTAMENT OF ISAAC CRUM In the name of God Amen. I, Isaac Crum of Summerhill Township Cambria County and State of Pennsylvania being in a good State of health of body and of sound & disposeing mind and memory praised be to God for the same and being desirous to settle my worldly affairs whilst I have strength and capacity so to do, do make & publish this my last will and testament hereby revokeing and making void all wills by me at any time heretofore made and first and principally I commit my soul into the hands of my creator who gave it and my body to the earth to be interred in such decent and Christian like manner a to my herein after mentioned executors may seem meet and as to such worldly estate wherewith it hath blessed God to entrust me. I dispose of the same as follows viz: I will that all my Just debts as shall be by me owing at my death together with my funeral expenses and all the charges touching the proving of or otherwise concerning this my will shall in the first place out of my personal Estate and Effects be fully paid and satisfied and from and after the payment thereof and subject hereto then my will is that my loving wife Susanna shall have and be entitled to for and during her life the third part of the production of all the land which I have cleared and also my black horse and my young brindled cow and my stove and bed and I do give and bequeath unto my Eldest son Ephraim 99 acres and 144 perches and allowance of the north west end of my land from a division line beginning at a stone on the North side of my land and running S. 52 W. to a post on the south side and I do give and bequeath unto my youngest son Isaac 120 acres and allowance of the south east end of my land on the opposite side of the division line before mentioned and I do also give unto my youngest son my young sorrel horse and my red cow and my rifle gun and one bed and I do give and bequeath unto and between my two sons Ephraim & Isaac each share and share alike my wagon and Blacksmith tools and I do give and bequeath unto my daughter Rachael three hundred dollars and it is my will that my personal property and effects be sold unto the highest bidder and all my debts be paid out of the same and the remainder applied to the use of paying my two before mentioned daughters shares as far as it will reach and the remainder which my personal property does not pay is to be paid by my two sons Ephraim and Isaac share and share alike each twenty five dollars annually until paid and I do give & bequeath unto my youngest daughter Susanna and her heirs fifty eight acres and one hundred & forty five perches and allowance on which she now lives of the west end of my land bounded by a division line between where she now lives and the place where my eldest son Ephraim formerly lived beginning at a post and running N. 55 E. ten perches to a spruce thence N. 42 W. sixty perches to a spruce thence S. 74 W. twenty four perches and five links to a beech on the outside line and I do make & ordain my eldest son Ephraim and William Benson Executors of this my last Will & Testament dated the nineteenth day of June one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine. Signed, sealed & acknowledged by the testator in the presence of the subscribers as his last Will & Testament Isaac Crum {seal} Fleetwood Benson James McGough Cambria County SS On the Ninth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty one personally came before me Philip Noon Register for the Probate of Wills and granting letters of Administration and for the County of Cambria aforesaid Fleetwood Benson Esquire and James McGough two of the subscribing Witnesses to the foregoing instrument of writing and upon their solemn Oaths do depose and say that they personally present and saw and heard the within Instrument of writing as and for his last will & Testament that at the time of the doing thereof he the said Isaac Crum the testator was of a sound and disposing mind and memory according to the best of the deponents knowledge and belief and that they subscribed their names thereto as witnesses of said execution in his presence and at his request Sworn and subscribed before me the day and year before written Philip Noon Register Fleetwood Benson Thomas McGough