Allegheny-Chester County PA Archives Wills.....Jordon, James April 2, 1842
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Source: Recorder Of Wills
Written: April 2, 1842
Recorded: March 28, 1844

Deed Book Volume 5, No. 378

			In the name of God Amen
I James Jordon of Plum township Allegheny
County & State of Pennsylvania – being weak
in body but Sound in mind memory and
understanding – but being aware of the uncertai
=nty of life – am desirous to settle all my
worldly affairs whilst I have the strength and
capacity so to do – I do therefore make and
ordain this my last will and testament
hereby revoking all former wills by me at
any time made – It is my will and desire
that soon after my decease that all my Joust
debts be paid – out of any money that may be
on hands at that time as also the adminis
=tring the estate &c – To my beloved wife
Margaret I give and bequeath all my chattle
property of every description that may be left
after paying my Just debts funeral expenses
administring my estate &c – and likewise
all the rents Issues and profits of my farm
on which I reside that may be left after
		     during hir natural life
paying taxes repairs &c –  ^ To my grandson
James Jordon (Son of my Son James) I give
and bequeath my farm on which I reside to go
to him at the decease of my wife If he Should
be twenty one Years of age at that time If not when
he arrives at the age of twenty Years – but in case
my grandson James (afore mentioned) does not live 
to have lawfull Heirs – It is my will that my farm
goes to my grandson Michael Jordon – and if 
Michael Should not live to have lawful Heirs – it
is my will that my grandson Thomas Jordon Heir
my farm & and if he Should not live to have lawful
Heirs – It is my will that my grandson Ephraim
Jordon Have my farm (all sons of my son James)
To my Son Ephraim I give & bequeath three dollars –
To my son James I give and bequeath three dollars –
To my daughter Margaret Jordon I give & bequeat one
hundred dollars to be paid to hir by my grandson
James afore mentioned one Year after the decease
of my wife – To my daughter Elizabeth Zimmerman
I give and bequeath two hundred dollars to be paid
to hir by my grandson James afore mentioned in four
equal annual payments the first to be paid two
years after the decease of my wife and so on
fifty dollars a Year until all is paid –

I do hereby constitute and appoint
Robert Carothers and William Carothers as
the executors of this my last will and
testament – In witness whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and seal this 2nd day of April
AD 1842
Signed and sealed in }		James Jordon {seal}
the presence of          }
Robert Carothers       }
William Cunningham }

Allegheny County
			Be it mentioned that on the 27th day of
March 1844 personally came before me P M?allise Register for the
probate of Wills in and for said County Robert Carothers and
William Cunningham the subscribing Witnesses to the foregoing instru
ment of writing who being sworn according to law did depose and
say that they saw and heard James Jordon the Testator to the fore
going Will sign seal publish and declare the foregoing Will as his last
Will and Testament and at the time he did so he was of sound and 
disposing mind to the best of their observation and belief and at his
request and in his presence subscribed their names as witness thereunto, 
further
that the aforesaid Robert Carothers did depose and say that he wrote the
aforesaid Will and the introduction of the words “during her natural life”
was inserted prior to signing the aforesaid Will by the Testator
Given under my hand the above date T Amadeisa  Register


Additional Comments:
James Jordon was born early August 1759 or 60 in Mill Creek Hundred, New 
Castle County, Delaware. While a resident of Morristown, Morris county, New 
Jersey he enlisted in the fall of 1777, served as a private in Captain Luces's 
Company, Colonel Israel Shreve's New Jersey Regiment, was at the Battle of 
Monmouth and was discharged after three years service. He was allowed pension 
on his application (W8225) executed November 9, 1833 while a resident of Plum 
Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. He died March 15, 1844 in said 
township. Soldier married December 23, 1788 in New Castle County, Delaware, 
Margaret Armstrong, they lived for ten years at New London Cross Roads, 
Chester County, Pennsylvania and then moved to Allegheny County. They had 
children, three of whom were born prior to 1794; John, Ephraim and Margaret.
James and Margaret Jordon are interred at the Cross Roads Cemetery, 
Monroeville, PA.

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