Greene County PA Archives Wills.....Leonard, William June 27, 1814

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Source: Greene County Clerk

Written: June 27, 1814

Recorded: July 19, 1827



Greene Co. PA Will Book #1 p.136, Bond Number 010. 219, June 27, 1814 (left in

the context as it was written):

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that we Elizabeth Leonard, William Whitlatch,

and Thomas Mitchell Esquire, all of Greene County, in the Commonwealth of

Pennsylvania, are held and firmly bound unto the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,

in the fum of Two hundred Pounds, to be paid to the faid Commonwealth to the

which payment well and truly to be made, we do, and each of us hereby doth bind

ourfelves, and each of us our Heirs, Executors, and Adminiftrators, and the

Heirs, Executors and Adminiftrators of each of us for and in the whole firmly by

thefe prefents. Sealed with our Seals, and Dated the twenty seventh Day of June

in the Year of our Lord Thoufand eight Hundred and fourteen.

THE CONDITION OF THIS OBLIGATION is fuch, That if the Within bounden Elizabeth

Leonard Adminiftrator of all the finular the Goods, Chattels and Credits of

William Leonard, deceafed, do make or caufe to be made, a true and perfect

Inventory of all and fingular the Goods, Chattels, And Credits for the faid

Deceafed, which have or phall come to the hands, Poffeffion or Knowledge of her

the faid Elizabeth Leonard or into the hands or Poffeffion of any other Perfon

or Perfons for her, and the fame fo made do exhibit or caufe to be exhibited in

the Regifters Office in the County of Greene, at or bebore the twenty seventh

day of July next enfuing; and the fame Goods, Chattels and Credits for the faid

Deceafed at the Time of his Death, which at any Time after fhall come to the

Hands or Poffeffion of the faid Elizabth Leonard or into the Hands or

Proffeffion of any other Perfon or Perfons for her do well and truly adminifter

according to the Law, and do further make or caufe to be made a true and juft

account of her faid adminiftration, at or before the twenty seventh Day of June

One Thoufand eight Hundred and fifteen, and allreft and refidue of the faid

Goods, Chattels and Credits which fhall be found remaining upon the faid

adminifrators account, the fame being firft examined and allowed of by the

Orphan's Court of the County of Greene aforefaid, fhall deliver and pay unto

fuch perfon or perfons refpectively as the faid Orphan's Court by their decree

or fentence, purfuant to the true intent and meaning of this Act, fhall limit

and appoint: and if it fhall hereafter appear that any laft Will and Teftament

was made by the faid Deceafed, and the Executor or Executors therein named to

exhibit the fame into the faid Regifter's Office, making requeft to have it

allowed and approved accordingly; if the faid Elizabeth Leonard within  bounden

being thereunto required, do render and deliver the faid Letters of

Adminiftration,)approbation of fuch Teftament being firft made and had in the

faid Regifter's Office) then this Obligation to be void and of none effect, or

elfe to remain in full force and virtue.

Elizabeth (her mark) Leonard

William Whitlatch (actual signature)	

Thomas Mitchell



Signed and delivered in the Prefence of John Boreman



According to the conditions of the bond an inventory of the Goods & Chattels of

William Leonard, deceased were taken on July 2, 1814, totaling $257.07 and filed

on July 4, 1814 with the Courts of Greene Co. PA



According to Greene County, PA Clerk of Courts, the following orphan papers were

recorded;

At an Orphans Court held at the town of Waynesburg in and for the County of

Greene on the fourth Monday of August Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and

fourteen before the Honorable Samuel Robert Esquire President and his associate

Judges of the same court.

On the petition of Elizabeth Leonard, widow and relict of William Leonard late

of Franklin Township of Greene County deceased setting forth that the said

William Leonard died leaving issue three children, Nancy,  John and William

minors under the age of fourteen years--------

She therefore prays the court to appoint some proper person to take care of

their person and Estates.

Where upon the Court appoint Jonathon Parkinson and Bernard Whitlatch guardians

of the persons and Estates of the said Nancy, John and William Leonard.



The following petition was filed on June 19, 1827 in Greene County, PA:

The petition of John and William Leonard humbly showeth that their father

William Leonard lately died and left a considerable real and personal property,

and that they are minors above the age of fourteen years and have no guardian or

guardians to take care of their persons and Estates they therefore humbly pray

that your Honor will permit them make choice of a guardian or guardians for the

purpose aforesaid.

Where upon the court appointed John and Lot Leonard.







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