Philadelphia County PA Archives Wills.....Coulton, William  April 16, 1774
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Source: Salt Lake Family History Film #21727; Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania Wills
Written: April 16, 1774
Recorded: June 15, 1774

William Coulton
Will Book & Page: Q 19
Probated: 15 June 1774

Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
Will Book Q
Years Covered 1775-1778

Salt Lake Family History Film# 21727
Wills v P-Q

Be it known unto all men this Sixteenth day of April in the year of our Lord 
one thousand seven hundred and seventy four  That I William Coulton of 
Blockley in the County of Philadelphia being weak of body but of Perfect Mind 
and Memory.  Do Make and Ordain this my last Will and Testament that is to say 
Principally and first of all I Recommend my Soul Into the hands of Allmighty 
God and my Body to be buried in a Christian and Decent manner at the 
Discretion of my Executors Hereafter named and for such Worldly Estate as I 
have I give Devise and Dispose of the same in manner and Form following 
[Imprimis] It is my Will and I order that in the first Place all my Just debts 
and funeral charges be paid and satisfied Item I leave and Bequeath unto my 
loving Phebey Coulton one half of my Estate Real and Personal During her 
Widdowhood and after her Widdowhood or Decease my Mind and Will is of that the 
said effects Real and Personal of which I have left unto my Loving wife Phebey 
Coulton shall devolve to my Son Joseph Coulton as his Real Property Item I 
give unto my Son Joseph Coulton the other half of my Land or Estate Goods 
[chattels] & to him his Heirs and Assigns  Item I give and Bequeath unto my 
daughter Lydia Warner Twenty Shillings. Item I give and Bequeath unto my 
Soning Law Isaac Warner the Sum of Ten Shillings. Item I give and Bequeath 
unto my Daughter Rachel Bonsall the sum of Twenty Shillings.  Item I give and 
Bequeath unto my Soning Law Enoch Bonsall the sum of Ten Shillings Item I give 
and Bequeath unto my Daughter Margret Win the Sum of Twenty Shillings, Item I 
Give and Bequeath unto my Soning Law Thomas Winn the Sum of Ten Shillings. 
Item I Give and Bequeath unto my Daughter Phebey Roberson the sum of Twenty 
Shillings.  Item I give and Bequeath unto my Soning Law Edward Roberson the 
sum of Ten Shillings.  Item I give and Bequeath unto Joseph Coulton after the 
marry or Decease of my Beloved Wife the Land both Reall and Personall unto my 
son Joseph Coulton to him his Heirs and Assigns  And I likewise do hereby 
constitute Approval and Ordain my Son Joseph Coulton and my Soning Law Isaac 
Warner to be Executors to this my last Will and Testament Performed Lastly And 
I do hereby utterly disalow  Revoke and Disanull all and Every other and 
former Testaments Wills Legacys and Executors by me in any Ways before this 
time named Willed and Bequeathed Rattifyind and Confirming this and no other 
to be my last Will and Testament William Coulton [some kind of a seal] Signed 
Sealed Published and Declared by the said William Coulton as his last Will and 
Testament this Sixteenth day of April in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand 
Seven Hundred and Seventy Four And by us Witnessed I the Presents of the 
Testator Thomas Musgrove Thomas Marshall Senor John Mathes --- Philadelphia 
June 15th 1774 Personally appears Thomas Musgrove and Thomas Marshall two of 
the Witnesses to the forgoing Will and on their Solemn Affirmation according 
to Law did declare that they saw and heard William Coulton the testator 
therein named Sign Seal publish and declare the same Will for and as his last 
Will and Testament and that at the Execution thereof he was of sound disposing 
Mind Memory and Understanding to the best of their knowledge and belief 
                     Coran Benjamin Chew Reg [Ience]

Transcribed By: Betty-Lu Baker Burton: December 2004
Italics are words that were hard to decipher.    


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