Westmoreland County, PA--Orphan Court Record--CARNAHAN
  
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  At which time David Newingham. Esqr High Sheriff came into Court and made the 
  following return to said Writ, "Not Executed", 
  So answers David Newingham, Shff
  
  And now to wit February 22d 1843 The Court award a Plurias Inquisition notice as 
  before
  
  Whereupon a Writ was made out and directed to the Sheriff Commanding him as 
  before and to
  make return of his proceedings to the next Orphans Court to be held At 
  Greensburgh in and
  for Westmoreland County the fourth Monday of May next.
  
  At which time David Newingham Esqr High Sheriff came into Court and made the 
  following return to said Writ. The Execution of this Writ appears in a schedule 
  hereto annexed.
  So answers David Newingham, Shff
  
  Inquisition indented and taken at the dwelling house of Mathew Carnahan in the 
  Township of Washington in the County of Westmoreland and State of Pennsylvania 
  on the twenty fifth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight 
  hundred and forty three Before David Newingham Esqr High Sheriff of the County 
  aforesaid By virtue of a Writ of Partition or Valuation to him directed and to 
  this inquisition annexed by the oaths of Alexander Thompson Esqr, William 
  Thompson, Adam Bowman, Jacob Kuhns, David Carnahan, Henry Bash, William Muffley, 
  Christian Bush, David Walter, James Mansfield, Peter Claason and William 
  McCauley, twelve free honest and lawful men of his bailiwick who on their oaths 
  aforesaid respectively do say that on the day and year aforesaid they went to 
  and upon the lands and tenements of which Adam Carnahan in the said writ named 
  died seized and then and there did find that the same lands and tenements could 
  not be parted and divided to and among the heirs and Legal representatives of 
  the said intestate without prejudice to or spoiling the whole thereof and the 
  inquest aforesaid upon their oaths aforesaid did then and there find that the 
  lands and tenements aforesaid would not conveniently accommodate more than one 
  of the children and heirs of the said deceased and therefore the inquest 
  aforesaid upon their oaths aforesaid have valued and appraised the same at and 
  for the sum of Eleven dollars lawful money of the United States for each and 
  every acre thereof. In testimony whereof as well the said Sheriff as the Inquest 
  aforesaid to this inquisition have interchangeably set their hands and seals the 
  day and year aforesaid.
  
  Alexander Thompson	(SEAL)
  David Walter	(SEAL)
  Christian Bush 	(SEAL)
  Henry Bash	(SEAL)
  Jacob Kuhns          	(SEAL)
  William Thompson	(SEAL)
  Peter Claason	(SEAL)
  James Mansfield Sr 	(SEAL)
  David Newingham, Shff	(SEAL)
  William Muffley	(SEAL)
  David R. Carnahan	(SEAL)
  Adam Bowman	(SEAL)
  William McCauley	(SEAL)
  
  
  In persuance of a Writ of Partition or Valuation I surveyed the above described 
  tract of Land for the heirs of Adam Carnahan, Decd. on the 25" day of April A. 
  D. 1843 Containing One hundred and seventy eight acres and a half Strict 
  Measure, Situated in Washington Township in the County of Westmoreland.
  S. L. Carpenter
  
  At an Orphans Court held at Greensburgh in and for Westmoreland County the 23d 
  May 1843 Inquisition Confirmed, And on Motion of Mr. Cowan  Rule on the heirs 
  and Legal Representatives of Adam Carnahan to appear at our next Orphans and 
  accept or refuse the Real Estate at the valuation. Notice as before. Issued 5th 
  June 1843
  
  And now to wit August 21st 1843, Mathew Carnahan, the eldest son and heir at Law 
  of Adam Carnahan, Late of Washington Township in said County Decd. came into 
  Court and elected to take the real Estate of his decd. father at the valuation 
  thereof by the inquest. The Court therefore assigns to the said Mathew the said 
  Real Estate at the valuation thereof by the inquest, He to enter into 
  recognizance with security to pay to his brothers and sisters their distributive 
  shares of said Real Estate within 12 months from this date with Interest. And 
  Samuel Shaw of Salem Township being offered as security he is approved of.                         
  By the Court.
  
  Mathew Carnahan and Samuel Shaw held to Mary Carnahan, Margaret Carnahan, James 
  Carnahan, John Carnahan, James Carroll in right of his wife Ellen, George 
  Campbell, in right of his wife Sarah, Elizabeth Carnahan & Margaret who is 
  intermarried with Michael, heirs and Legal Representatives of Adam Carnahan, 
  Decd. in the sum of $272.73 each, upon condition that Mathew Carnahan pay or 
  cause to be paid twelve months from the date with Lawful interest unto the said 
  heirs or their Legal Representatives the sum of $136.36 1/2 each, it being their 
  respective shares of the real Estate of the said Deceased. As per Separate 
  Recognizance filed August 22d, A. D. 1843.