Chester County PA Archives Wills.....Smith, John October 1853
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Source: Chester County Pa  Archives
Written: October 1853
Recorded: November 1854

Chester County Orphans Court Decedants, John Smith, 1854

Orphans Court Docket M22, Page 89
John Smith Estate, Petition for Inquest

November 10, 1854, Read and Filed and Inquest Awarded 
Personal Notice to be given to all parties in interest residing within 100 
miles, and notice to all others of publication in the North American and United 
States Gazette, a newspaper published in Philadelphia on Nov 21, 28, and Dec 5, 
and in the Regency Examiner, a newspaper published in West Chester, once a week 
for three successive weeks prior to holding said Inquest.

To the Honorable the Judges of the Orphans Court of Chester County:

The Petition of the undersigned heirs and legal representatives of John Smith, 
late of Coventry Township, in said County respectfully represent:

That in the month of October AD 1853, the said John Smith died Intestate, 
leaving to survive him a widow, Elizabeth Smith, and the following named 
children and grandchildren: David Smith, the oldest son, Henry Smith, Mary, 
intermarried with John Shingle (spelled elsewhere in document as Shenkel ), 
Margaret, intermarried with John Wack, Esther Kerby who was the widow of Samuel 
Kerby, deceased, is now intermarried with Joseph Stanley, Mary Souder, a minor 
child of Susanna Souder, deceased, a daughter of the said John Smith, deceased, 
the said Mary having for her guardian Samuel Miller, and Mary Elizabeth Smith, 
a minor child of Abraham Smith, deceased, a son of the said John Smith, 
deceased, the said Mary Elizabeth having for her guardian Henry Smith. The said 
children and grandchildren with the said guardians all reside in Chester 
County, excepting Mary Shingle, who is living in Union County, Pennsylvania.

That the said John Smith, deceased died seized and possessed in his demise as 
of fee of and in a messuage and tract of land situate in North Coventry 
Township, Chester County adjoining the lands of Clement Brooke, Warwick 
Company, Jacob Witman / Whitman, Phebe Shaver, and others containing about 
twenty one acres and fifty perches of land, be the same more or less with the 
appurtenances, that to each of the said children and grandchildren it belongs 
to have the one seventh part of the whole said real estate. subject to the 
interest and rights of the widow therein. 

John Smith Estate, Widow's Appraisement, Nov 10, 1854
We, Jacob Souder, David Shafer, George Amole, being affirmed in due form of law 
do declare and say that they will well and truly value and appraise the 
property which Elizabeth Smith, widow of John Smith, late of North Coventry 
Township deceased, may select to retain under the provisions of the Act of 
Assembly of AD 1851 without prejudice or partiality.
Affirmed and Subscribed before me this 7th day of November AD 1854
Levi Shingle, Justice of the Peace 
witness: David Shafer and George Amole

Inquisition indented and taken at the late dwelling of John Smith, deceased, in 
the township of North Coventry, in the county of Chester and State of 
Pennsylvania on the twenty eighth day of December in the year of our Lord one 
thousand eight hundred and fifty four before Lewis Heffelfinger, high Sheriff 
of the county of Chester. By virtue of a writ of Partition or valuation to him 
directed and to this inquisition annexed by the affirmations of: Jacob 
Reinwalt, Jacob Bachman, Amos Whitman, Jonas Amole, Jeremiah Lubold, Samuel 
Stauffer, Thomas Lord, Daniel McFarland, Henry R. Bealer, Abraham R. Bear, 
George Schmale, Daniel Eckert, twelve free and lawful men of this bailiwick who 
on their affirmations aforesaid, respectively do say that on the day and year 
aforesaid they went to and upon the lands and tenements of which John Smith in 
the writ mentioned died seized (all persons interested having been duly warned 
of the time and place of taking this inquisition) and then and there did find 
that the same lands and tenements could not be parted and divided to and among 
the heirs and representatives of the deceased in the said writ named, agreeably 
to the directions thereof, without prejudice to or spoiling of the whole. And 
therefore, the inquest aforesaid on their affirmations aforesaid, have valued 
and appraised the same at the sum of eight hundred and six dollars and twenty 
five cents lawful money of the United States and for which sum of eight hundred 
and six dollars lawful money aforesaid, the inquest aforesaid upon their 
affirmations aforesaid do value and appraise the same. In testimony whereof as 
well the said Sheriff as the inquest aforesaid have to this inquisition 
interchangeably set their hands and seals the day and year above mentioned.

Signed: 

Jacob Rinewalt ~~~ Thomas Lord
Jacob Bachman ~~~ Daniel McFarland
Amos L Witman ~~~ Henry R. Bealer
Jonas Amole ~~~~~ Abraham R. Bear
Jeremiah Lubold ~~~ George Schmale
Samuel Stauffer ~~~ Daniel Eckert 

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