Wills: Conrad Rice, Indiana Co
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The Last Will and Testament of Conrad Rice No. 182 Accounted for in pages
106 and ? [107]
Will Book #1 page 114, Indiana Co., Pa
This file was located in the Backroom files under loose letters of the Probate
Office, Indiana County Courthouse by Lydick (Tim) Ostwald, 600 Juniper,
Boulder,Colorado 80304. Sent to me[Vernon C. Cook] by Clifford E. Rice, 6355
Crawford St., San Diego, CA 92120 in September 1996.
In the name of God, Amen. I Conrad Rice of Centre Township in the County of
Indiana being weak in body but of sound and disposing mind memory and
understanding, Condidering the certainty of death and the uncertainty of the
time thereof, and being desirous to settle my worldly affairs and thereby be
better prepared to leave this world when it shall please God to call me home,
do therefore make and publish this my last will and testament in manner and
form following that is to say___.
First and principally, I Commit my Soul unto the hands of Almighty God and my
body to the earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my executors
herein after named and after my debts and funeral charges are paid. Such
worldly Estate wherewith it has pleased God to bless me in this life. I give
devise and bequeath as follows ____ .
I give and bequeath unto Philip Rice my oldest son one hundred and thirty two
acres of land whereon he now resides agreeably to the lines as is now surveyed
off for him being a part of my plantation whereon I now dwell unto him the
said Philip and his heirs and assigns forever him the said Philip yielding
and paying therefor the Sum of Four Hundred and Sixty six Dollars and fifty
Cents, in the manner herein after mentioned to wit: immediately after my
decease it is my will that he the Said Philip pay to my daughter Barbara
twehty five Dollars, two years thereafter that he appropriate to the use of
the Children of my daughter Catharine Middleton (excepting her daughter
Elizabeth now Bates) the Sum of Fifty Dollars according to the manner
hereinafter mentioned. one year thereafter that he pay my Son in law John
Lydick fifty Dollars. The fourth year after my decease that he the said Philip
pay my daughter Susan Adams, Fifty Dollars, the fifth year after my decease
that he pay my grandaughter, Elizabeth Bates Twenty five Dollars. the Sixth
year after my decease, that he pay my daughter Barbara fifty Dollars. the
Seventh year after my decease that he pay and appropriate to the use of the
children of my daughter Catherine Middleton as aforementioned and intended the
Sum of Fifty Dollars and the Eight year after my decease, my Son in Law John
Lydick and wife Forty one Dollars, and fifty Cents. the ninth year after my
decease my daughter Susan Adams, the sum of Fifty Dollars. the Tenth year
after my decease my daughter Barbara, Fifty Dollars and the eleventh year
after my decease my daughter Susan Adams the Sum of twenty Five Dollars_
Item: I give devise and bequeath unto my son Conrad all the residue of the
plantation whereon I now dwell Containing one hundred and thirty two acres
according to the lines of the same said now Surveyed off for him. unto him
the Said Conrad his heirs and assigns forever by him paying to the same
persons. the same sums of Money in the same manner and at the same times and
in the same proportions that my son Philip is to pay to
Making in all to my Daughter Barbara, Two hundred and fifty Dollars. my Son-in
law John Lydick and wife, one hundred and eighty three Dollars. the Children
of my daughter Catharine Middleton excepting Elizabeth, Two hundred Dollars,
my daughter Susan Adams, two hundred and fifty Dollars and my Grand Daughter
Elizabeth Bates fifty Dollars____
Item: it is also my will that my daugher, Barbara shall have the use of the
room which is (struck off--adjacent to ?) the kitchen in my (? unreadable)
house for her exclusive use and occupancy with the priviledge of the Kitchen,
the Cellar and Spring house, and the upper one half of the garden So long as
she may remain unmarried.
I also give and bequeath unto my Said Daughter, Barbara one Cow of her own
choice out of those I may possess at my decease, one feather Bed and bed
clothes and all my kitchen furniture it is also my will that my Sons Philip
and Conrad find and provide for Said Barbara So long as she may remain Single
a Sufficient quanity of hay and fodder to keep two cows and her sheep with the
priviledges of pasture for them and to keep one or two hogs, to find her in
firewood ready cut at the door. to have her grain ground and milled whenever
she stands in need thereof and to Sow her one half bushel flax yearly and
give her ground well manured and in good order Sufficient to plant three
Bushels potatoes yearly.
Item: I give and bequeath unto my Son Philip, my ( Sampson horse-with all my
blacksmith tools reserving to my Son Conrad the right of doing his own work
with them___
Item: I give and bequeath unto my son Conrad all the residue of my property
real personal and mixed and it is my will that he pay all my just debts as
soon as convenient may be after my decease____
And Lastly I do hereby Constitute and appoint my Said Sons Philip and Conrad
to be Sole executors of this, my last will and testament. revoking and
annulling all former wills, by me made. ratifying and Confirming this, and
none other to be my last will and testament.
In testimony whereof I have hereto Set my hand and affixed my Seal this thirty
first day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
Sixteen.
Signed Sealed published and
declared by the Said Conrad Rice s/ Conrad Rice [SEAL}
as and for his list will and
testament in presence of us
s/ James Loughry s/ James McKnight
It is also further willed (?)me and that It shall be taken, deemed and
understood as a part of my foregoing will that my executors therein named
Shall appropriate the money therein bequeathed unto the children of my
Daughter Catharine Middleton (excepting Elizabeth) to the purchase and payment
of land for said children and that my son in law James Middleton and wife
Catharine shall have the privildge of residing thereon with said children
during their lives but that Said James and Wife have no other interest in the
Same than that already mentioned. In witness Whereof I have hereto set my hand
and seal this same day and year within mentioned___
Signed and Sealed in presence
s/Conrad Rice [SEAL]
of s/ James Loughry s/ James McKnight
Be it remembered that on the Second day of October , 1818 I do make and ordain
the following as a Codicil to (the foregoing, which is to be taken as part of)
my last will and testament that is to say. I hereby revoke and disannull all
the several Sums of money bequeathed to my grandaughter Elizabeth Bates and it
is my will that my Sons Philip and Conrad do keep for their own proper use and
benefit the Said Sums of money bequeathed to her the Said Elizabeth. Witness
my hand and seal
Signed Sealed in presence of
s/ James McKnight s/ James Loughry s/Conrad Rice
[SEAL]
Be it remembered that on the twenty fourth day of June A D one thousand Eight
hundred and Twenty three personally appeared before me James Speer Register
for the probate of wills and Granting Letters of Administration in and for the
County of Indiana, James Loughry and John Ross surviving witnesses of the
above mentioned will of Conrad Rice and being duly sworn did depose and say
that they were personaly present and did hear Conrad Rice the testator
acknowledge the same as and for his last will and testament
and at the same time they believed him to be of sound and disposing mind and
memory and that the names James Loughry and John Ross and James McKnight
subscribed thereto as witnesses are in their own proper handwriting and at the
same time the signature of the testator Conrad Rice was had (?).
23 June 1823
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