Cumberland County PA Archives Wills.....ELIOT, Robert September 1765 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Lynn Beatty klbeatty@npgcable.com December 4, 2006, 4:16 pm Source: Josiah V. Thompson Journals Written: September 1765 Carlisle Pa., Page 185 Record Book 1 September___Day, year of our Lord 1765 In the name of God, Amen: I, Robert Eliot, in the township of Middleton, County of Cumberland, Province of Pennsylvanian, finding myself through age much declined in bodily strength yet, blest be God, of perfect mind & memory, and calling to mind my mortality and that it is appointed for all men once to die, do order, devise, ordain and make this, my last will and Testament. That is to say principally and first of all, I resign my soul to God, who gave it, and my body to the Earth, there to be decently interred, at the discretion of my Executors, nothing doubting, but that I shall receive the same again at ye general Resurrection. And my worldly estate, I dispose of in the following manner and form. Imprimus. I order and devise that after the payment of my just debts and funeral charges, Mary, my beloved wife, shall have and enjoy to use or dispose at her pleasure, all my ready cash, and all debts due to me by obligation or contract whatsoever to whom I also give and bequeath the third part of my personal estate, and a full third part of my real estate, during her natural life. Item: I give & bequeath to my son, Edward Elliott, 5 shillings & no more. Item: I give & bequeath to my son, Thomas Elliott, 5 shillings & no more. Item: I give & bequeath to my son, William Elliott, 5 shillings & no more. Item: I give & bequeath to my son, Robert Elliott, 5 shillings & no more. Item: I give & bequeath to my daughter, Grisel Elliott, wife of Joseph McMin, 5 shillings & no more. Item: I give and bequeath to my daughter Margaret Elliot, the just sum of twenty pounds, lawful money of Pennsylvania to be paid unto her by my executors nd my own saddle horse viz my gray horse & her saddle together with bed and furniture thereof, as her mother thinks fit. Item: I give & bequeath to my daughter Mary Elliot, wife of John Irwin, 5 shillings and no more. Item: I give & bequeath to my daughter, Ann Elliot, thirty pounds, lawful money of Pennsylvania to be paid by my executors, but ten pounds thereof, I allow to be paid out of the ready cash before given to my wife at her disposal. I likewise order and allow a saddle unto my daughter, Ann, with her bed and furniture thereof. Item: I give & bequeath unto my son, David Elliot, the remaining two thirds of my land estate, which after his mother's death, doth pass to him, his heirs & assigns forever, together with what remains of personal estate after the payment after the payt of my just debts & legacies herein bequeathed and I do appoint ordain & constitute Mary, my beloved wife, and my son James Elliot, Executors & Executor of this my last will & testament, hereby revoking, reversing, and utterly making null and void, all wills testa ments, executors or legacies, by me formerly made or intended to be made as witnessed by my hand and seal the day year above written. Signed, sealed Published pronounced or declared to be the last will and testament of Robert (his mark) Elliot In presence of John Biggam & John Henderson A copy [copy is slashed through] by John Armstrong This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/pafiles/ File size: 3.7 Kb