COURT: Nicholas CRUM Estate Petition of John KING and Henry CRUM, 1805, Huntingdon County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Nancy Lorz Copyright 2005. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm __________________________________________________________ Huntingdon Co. Court House Orphan's Court Docket B File E No. 38 The Petition of John King and Henry Crum was read as follows viz. To the Honorable Judges of the Court of Common Pleas at an Orphans Court held at Huntingdon for the County of Huntingdon on the 17th day of September 1805. The Petition of John King and Henry Crum administrators of all and singular the goods and Chattels rights and Credits which were of Nicholas Crum late of the county aforesaid Yeoman deceased. Humbly Shewith That the said Intestate left issue eight Children to wit, Henry Crum the eldest, one of your Petitioners, Nicholas Catharine Frederick Jacob Peter Tobias and Isaac the five last named of whom are in their minority. That the personal estate of the said Intestate is insufficient for the payment of his debts as by the account herewith produced appears and that the said Intestate died seized in his demesne as of fee of and in a certain tract of land situate in Union Township Huntingdon County on the Waters of big Trough Creek containing three hundred acres, be the same more or less adjoining lands of John Swagger, John Griffiths, and others on which is erected a grist and saw mill with all and singular its appurtenances. Your Petitioners therefore Humbly Pray your Honors to grant them an order to make sale of the said above described tract of land with the appurtenances for the payment of the debts and education and maintenance of the minor Children of the said Intestate. Whereupon it is considered by the Court and ordered that the said tract of land be sold on Friday the fifteenth day of November next on the premises. One third of the purchase money to be paid in hand one third in twelve months. and the remaining third in two equal yearly payments. And that notice of the sale be given in the Huntingdon Gazette, in the Lancaster journal & in Albrights German Paper.