WILL: George HAWN, 1874, Juniata Township, Huntingdon County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Sana M. McGhee Copyright 2006. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ________________________________________________ Last Will I, George Hawn of Juniata Township in the county of of Huntingdon and State of Pennsylvania being impressed GEORGE HAWN with the uncertainty of life and feeling it to be a duty while in health and in the possession of rational faculties to make a disposition of such property as I may be possessed of do make and publish this my last will and testament as follows to wit: I direct all my debts and funeral expenses to be paid as soon as conveniently after my decease out of my estate hereby giving my Executors hereinafter named full power and authority to sell and convey my part of my estate for that purpose that they may think proper. I will and bequeath to George H. Acker (the boy I raised and is now living with me) the sum of one thousand dollars to be paid to him at the age of twenty one years in case the said George H. Acker will be and remain with my three brothers until he arrives at the age of twenty years. I will and bequeath to Catharine Bush (who has been my kind and faithful housekeeper) the sum of one thousand dollars to payed to her on the following terms, to wit: three hundred dollars on the first day of April A. D. 1875 three hundred dollars on the first day of April 1876; four hundred dollars on the first day of April 1877. I will and bequeath Six hundred and twenty five dollars tword the building of a Lutherian Church and the rest and residue of my estate, real and personal and mixed I hereby desire and bequeath to my three brothers John, Peter and Issac the personal property to be used and disposed of as they may see proper and the real estate to be help and enjoyed by them the said John, Peter and Isaac as tenants in common during life and the sale and last survivor to hold the same or so much as may not be sold to him and his heirs and assigns forever in case my three brothers John, Peter, and Isaac should desire to sell and dispose of the whole or any part of the real estate hereby devised they are at liberty to sell the same and by deed or deeds of conveyance dully executed and delivered by them to convey the same to them to the purchaser and purchasers in fee simple. If any or all of my said brothers should hereafter be married in that event the undivided third part of my real estate shall be vested in each of such as may be married in fee simple and not for life as before provided and as our brother Daniel has been deprived of his reason for many years and there is now no prospect of his mind being restored, I request my said brothers John, Peter and Isaac to contribute out of the estate hereby devised to them towards the support and maintainance of our said unfortunate brother in the event of the estate devised and bequeathed to him by our dear mother becoming exhausted. Lastly hereby constitute and appoint my said brothers John, Peter and Isaac the Executors of this my last will and testament. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand the fourth day of March A.D. 1874. Signed, Executed and published his by George Hawn in the presence George X Hawn of us. Miles Shenefelt mark S. B. Shenefelt County of Huntingdon This 27th day of March A.D. 1874 before me W. E. Lightner Register for the Probate of Wills and granting of Letters of Administration in and for the county o Huntingdon personally came Miles and A. B. Shenefelt the subscribing witnesses to the above will and being duly sworn according to law did depose and say that they were present and saw and heard George Hawn the testator sign, seals publish, pronounce and declare the foregoing instrument of writing as and for his testament and last will and that at the time of so doing he the said testator was of perfect and sound mind, memory and understanding to the best of their knowledge observation and belief. Sworn and Subscribed before me W. E. Lightner A. B. Shenefelt Register Miles Shenefelt Renunciation Know all men by these presents that I, John Hawn of Juniata of Huntingdon County Pennsylvania, one of the Executors names John Hawn in the last will and testament of George Hawn late of the one of the Exr's same place have renounced, released and quit names claimed in the last and by these presents do renounce, release and quit claim will of Geo Hawn all my right and title to the said Executorship and desire deceased that the same may be committed to my brothers Isaac and Peter who are named as Executors in the said will. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 25th day of March 1874 Witness A. B. Shenefelt, John Hawn Jr. John Hawn (seal) Letters Testamentary On this 27th day of March A.D. 1874, Letters granted on the estate Testamentary in common form were this day granted of to Peter and Isaac Hawn on the estate of George George Hawn dec'd. Hawn late of Juniata Township deceased. W. E. Lightner Register