Wills: POTTS, Thomas, 1747: Colebrook Dale, Philadelphia Co, PA ================================================================================ Contributed to the USGenWeb Archives by Joe Patterson USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: Printing this file within 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. ================================================================================ WILL OF THOMAS POTTS. In the Name of God, Amen, I Thomas Potts of Colebrook Dale in the County of Philadelphia, Iron Master, being of sound and perfect Mind and Memory thanks be given unto God therefore Do make this my Last Will and Testament in manner and form following (That is to say) Imprimis. It is my will that all my Debts and funeral Charges be first paid. Item. I Give and Bequeath unto my Dear wife Magdalene in lieu of her Dower all my Household Goods, her Riding Horse and Saddle and a Couple of Cows such as she shall Choose out of my Stock of Cows, and during her Natural Life my nigroe Girl Elizabeth, Daughter of my Nigroe Tobias, my Mullato Fellow Jo, the sum of thirty Pounds a year to be paid her yearly, the best lower Room in my now Dwelling House with the Room above it to live in, and two Acres of meadow near ye ffurnace to keep her COWS. Item. It's my Will that my said wife Magdalene at her decease give the Mullatoe and Nigroe Girl above bequeathed to her during her natural Life unto such of my Children or Grand Children as she thinks proper. Item. I Give and Bequeath unto my Grand Daughter Sarah Potts, Daughter of Thomas Potts Junr, my son, my Riding mare and a Side Saddle. Item. It's my will that my Executors hereinafter named or a majority of them do and I hereby empower them or a majority of them to Sell all my Lands, Messuages, Tenements and Real Estate whatsoever (a tract of Land situate in the County of Philadelphia aforesaid, which I lately purchased of Jonathan Robeson Esqr, containing two hundred and fifty acres or thereabouts, excepted) and to convey ye same or any part thereof to the Purchaser or Purchasers thereof his, her or their Heirs and assigns forever Provided always that the persons hereafter named (if they incline) shall be admitted purchasers of these parts of my Real Estate hereafter mentioned at the Prices hereafter mentioned (That is to Say) My Son Thomas Potts of my two thirds of Colebrook Dale ffurnace and Iron Mines and of the one hundred acres of I-and on which the same are and all other my Interest of in or to y, same ffurnace and Mines and Land on which ye same are and also of the one hundred Acres of Land adjoyning ye said ffurnace with the Appurtenances at Eight hundred Pounds. My Son David of the Plantation situate at Colebrook Dale aforesaid, on which I formerly lived containing two hundred and fifty Acres be the same more or less with the Appurtenances at five hundred Pounds. My Son John of One Third of Pine fforge, with the one third of the one hundred acres of Land on which the same stands and the one third of two hundred acres of Land thereto adjoyning commonly called ye Company's Land at two hundred and twenty-five pounds, Provided, Also that if my said Son Thomas, Son David and Son John dont purchase the aforesaid parts of my Real Estate at the Rates aforesaid according to the Privilege herein Given within ye term of Six Months next after my Decease, then it's my will that my said Exec" or a majority of them sell ye same part of My Sd Real Estate to any person or persons that will purchase ye same and Convey the same or any part thereof to the Purchaser or Purchasers his, her or their Heirs and assigns forever. Item. It's my will that of the money arising from my said Real and personal Estate or either of them my sd Executors hereinafter named put out to Interest upon Land Security, the Sum of five hundred Pounds and annually receive the Interest thereof and therewith annually defray the Annuity herein before bequeathed to my said wife. Item. I give and Devise all my Estate Real and Personal and the money thereby arising over and above the payment of my just Debts and funeral Charges, the Annuity and Legacy herein bequeathed to my said wife the Legacy bequeathed herein to my Grand Daughter Sarah, Daughter of my Son Thomas, and the sum of five hundred Pounds hereby directed to be put out to Interest unto Elizabeth Walker, Mary Clever, John Potts, Thomas Potts, and David, Potts my Children and Stephen Yorke and Edward Yorke my Grandson* s in manner following (That is to say) unto each of my said Children one Sixth part thereof, to Hold unto them & their respective heirs Exec or Adms forever and unto my said Grandsons the other one Sixth part thereof, To Hold unto them & their Excs or Adms forever as Tennants in Common to be eaqually divided between them. Item. After my said wife's Decease I give and Bequeath the five hundred Pounds herein before directed to be put out to Interest unto my said children Elizabeth Walker, Mary Clever, John Potts, Thomas Potts and David Potts and my said Grandsons Stephen Yorke and Edward Yorke in manner following (That is to say) unto my said Children each one Sixth part thereof and unto my said Grandsons Stephen and Edward Yorke the other Sixth part thereof to be eaqually divided between them. Item. It's my will as the two hundred and fifty one acres of Land situate in the County of Philadelphia afd which I lately purchased of Jonathan Robeson Esq, is not yet quite paid for nor yet Conveyed that if I should dye before the same is Conveyed that my Executors pay what remains unpaid therefor out of my Estate with all Convenient Speed and that ye same be Conveyed with the apps unto my said Grandsons Stephen Yorke and Edward Yorke their Heirs and Assigns forever in Confirmation of ye Devise thereof to them herein made by the following clause. Item. It's my will that my said Grandsons Stephen and Edward Yorke have at two hundred and fifty Pounds the tract of Land which I lately purchased of Jonathan Robeson containing two hundred and fifty one acres be the same more or less with the appurtenances, towards their one Sixth part of my Real and Personal Estate above bequeathed and Devised them To Hold unto them their heirs & assigns forever as Tennants in Common. Lastly. I hereby Constitute make and ordain my said wife Magdalene Executrix and my Sons John Potts and Thomas Potts and my Son-in-law Thomas Yorke Executors of this my Last Will and Testament, And I do hereby utterly Disallow, Revoke and Disannul all and every other former Testaments, Wills, Legacies and Executors by me in anywise before this time named willed and bequeathed, Ratifying this and no other to be my Last Will and Testament. In Witness whereof I have hereunto put my Hand and Seal this twenty fifth Day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand Seaven hundred and forty Seaven. THOMAS POTTS. - SEAL. Signed, Sealed. Published, Pronounced, and Declared (ye words [at, herein] being first interlined) and ye words [and] twice writ in Characters, thus [&] by the said THOMAS POTTS as his Last Will and Testament in the presence of us, EDWARD WEST, JACOB BARNARD, ISAAC BARNARD.