Washington County PA Archives Wills.....Gregg, John December 12, 1818 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Muriel Sonne cgsonne@comcast.net November 7, 2011, 7:31 pm Source: Washington County, Will Book 3, P. 270; Fhl #863625 Written: December 12, 1818 Recorded: April 6, 1819 Will of John Gregg, deceased In the name of God Amen the twelfth day of December in the year of our Lord 1818 I John Gregg of the County of Washington Pike Run Township State of Pennsylvania being sick and weak in body but of perfect mind and memory thanks be given unto God therefore calling unto mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die do make and ordain this my last will and Testament that is to say principally and first of all I give and recommend my Soul into the hands of God that gave it and for my body I recommend it to the Earth to be buried in a Christian like and decent manner at the discretion of my Executors nothing doubting but at the general resurrection I shall receive the same again by the might power of God and as touching such worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this life I give devise and dispose of in the following manner and form It is my will that all my just debts be paid and satisfied Item I will and bequeath to my well beloved wife Ann one third of all my moveable property and her choice horse or mare on the place except them claimed by the boys with her bed and bedding and one third of all the profits arising from all my lands and the mansion house during her natural life Item to my Daughter Ann I will the sum of one dollar Item to my Daughter Sarah I will one dollar Item to my son in law William Wallace I will one dollar Item to my three sons Andrew Gregg Jacob Gregg Robert Gregg I will and bequeath all my lands to be divided and valued as equally as It will admit with the horse mare or colt claimed by each of them to Andrew and Jacob their guns only the land to remain as it is at present to raise school and cloth my children viz Andrew Jacob Robert Elizabeth Margaret Mary and Jane that is the home place and where Aron Ward lives to be rented for the use of the above mentioned heirs until one of my above mentioned sons should Marry or my youngest child arrive at the age of twenty one years or and if one of my sons or any of them mary before my youngest child attains at the above mention age he is to have possession of the place where Aron Ward now lives by paying to his Mother her part willed to her if he sees proper to take a place otherwise he is wait until my youngest child come to the age of twenty one years then to have his lot with my others sons Item I will and bequeath to my four Daughters Elizabeth Margaret Mary and Jane two thirds of all my movable property and the adds in the valuation of land if there be any only my Daughter Elizabeth is to have the bureau and bed and bedding and her choice horse or mare or colt only them that is willed to her mother or the boys more that there is left to the other three girls Margaret Mary and Jane Item It is my Will that there be a part or small piece of land sold of the place where Aron Ward now lives to help to pay for ad place and Lastly I do make ordain and Constitute and appoint Barnet Johnson Henry Gregg Jr and my son Andrew Gregg sole Executor of this my last Will and Testament and I do hereby utterly disallow revoke and disannul all and every other former Testaments Wills and legacies and Executors by me in any ways before this time named willed and bequeathed ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last Will and Testament In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year above written December the 12th 1818 John X (his mark) Gregg Signed sealed published pronounced and declared by the said John Gregg as his last will and Testament in the presence of us the subscribers who in his presence and in the presence of each other have Subscribed our names John Nixon Henry Hannen Robert Kerr Washington County Ss Be it remembered that on the sixth day of April in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, before me, Isaac Kerr, Register for the probate of Wills and granting Letters of Administration, in and for said County, came, John Nixon and Robert Kerr, two of the subscribing witnesses to the aforegoing last Will and Testament of John Gregg, late of the County aforesaid, deceased, who, being duly sworn and affirmed, do depose affirm and say that they were personally present, and did see the Testator therein named, execute this will, and did hear him publish, pronounce and declare the same to be his last Will and Testament: That at the time of his so doing, he was, to the best of their apprehensions of sound and disposing mind, memory and understanding; And that they and Henry Hannen, who is not present, Respectively subscribed their names as witnesses to this Will, in the presence, and at the request of the Testator, and in the presence of each other. Note, John Nixon was affirmed. And Sworn and affirmed to and subscribed before me Isaac Kerr Register. John Nixon Robert Kerr April 6th 1819. Letters Testamentary with copy of the Will and probate annexed, issued to Henry Gregg Junior and Andrew Gregg, two of the Executors in the within will named, who on the same day were duly sworn. Isaac Kerr Register Registered and compared with Original, the 6th day of April, Anno Domini, 1819 Isaac Kerr Register.