Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Lise Embley (paul.embley@worldnet.att.net) USGENWEB NOTICE: Printing this file by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged, as long as all notices and submitter information is included. Any other use, including copying files to other sites requires permission from the submitters PRIOR to uploading to any other sites. We encourage links to the state and county table of contents. _____________________________________________________________________ LAST WILL & TESTAMENT OF ALEXANDER McILROY In the name of God amen I Alexander McILROY of Dublin Township, Huntington County who is frail in body but sound in judgment do make this as my last will and testament. I do here will and bequeath unto my son John McILROY my gray mere, saddle, bridle, collar, hems and chains and all my clothes. And I give unto Robert TAYLOR my young bay mare and allow him in the course of five or six years to buy one saddle for his daughter Agnes and one for Margaret with the note he owes me and I allow him to choose three of my sheep that I give my grand daughter Mary TAYLOR. I give five pounds of wool to my daughter Mary TAYLOR and the other five pound to Mary Ann BIGAM - I give my grand son Alexander TAYLOR, my loom and Tacklings my shovel, plow, large bible - I give my Sister Agnes TAYLOR my other two sheep - It is likewise my will that my son Robert McILROY with the forty dollars and two cents he owes me as per note dated January second 1813, to buy one saddlefor John McILROYs daughter Jane, and one for John SIMPSONs daughter Mary SIMPSON, In testimony that this is the will of the said Alexander McILROY wittnesses have set our hands & seals this twenty sixth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifteen. James Spear (seal) Thomas Bigam (seal) Alexander X McILROY his mark Huntingdon County Before me William Steel Register for the Probate of Wills and granting letters of Administration in & for said County personally came James Spear and Thomas Bigam the subscribing witnesses to the within instrument of writing who being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saieth that they were present and did see and hear the within named Alexander Milroy sign seal publish pronounce and declare the within instrument of writing as and for his last will and testament and that at the said signing the said testator was of sound and disposing mind to the best of the deponants knowledge and belief and that they subscribed their names thereto as Witnesses in the presence of each other and in the presence of the Testator and at his request and further saieth not - sworn and subscribed the 1st day of April 1818. Before William Steel, Reg James Spear Tho. Bigam