Wills: Casper Hill, 1833: Fairfield Twp, Westmoreland County, PA

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Casper Hill's Will
1105

In the name of God Amen. I Gasper Hill of Fairfield Township County of 
Westmoreland County & state of Pennsylvania being sick and weak in body 
but of sound memory and understanding praised be God for it & considering 
the certainty of Death and the uncertainty of the time thereof and to 
the End that I may be beter prepared to leave this world Whenever it 
should pleas God to call me hence do therefore make & declare this my 
last will and testament in the manner following  that is to say first 
and principally I commend my soul into the hands of Almighty God my 
Creator - my body I commit to the Earth at the discretion of my executors 
herein after named. I will that all my Just debts as shall be by me owing 
at the time of my Death together with my funeral expences and all things 
touching the proving or otherwise Concerning this my will Shall in the 
first place out of my estate and effects be fully paid and satisfied.

I give and bequeath unto my loving Wife Phoeby one bed bed cloathes & 
bedstead two Cows & and all my sheep & all my kitchen Furniture & also 
the North side of my tract of land where my mansion house & barn is til 
a small Run or draft (?) that Runs through said place During her natural 
Life and to have all the timber that is on said land it being the one 
half of the land I now live on & also two hundred Dollars

I give and bequeath unto my son Isaac all the tract of land that I now 
live on with the appurtenances by his  paying (illegible) Dollars per 
acre for the same - the one half South sides of a small Run - he is to 
have possession of immediately after my my decease and also one half of 
my barn and the other half of my said land he is to have possession of 
at the Death of my loving Wife to the said Isaac Hill his heirs and 
(assigns) forever & said Isaac to pay the last half at his mother's death.

I give and bequeath unto my son John the one half of the land he now 
lives being the side where the house & barn & Cleared land is with the 
appurtenances & to his heirs forever. If said John does not choose to 
keep said land then my Will is that it be sold by my executors and that 
my son John shall have an equal share of my estate after all my Bequests 
and all other Debts are paid with the rest of my Children.

I give and Bequeath unto my son Samuel the West half of said land where 
my powder (     ) is located during his life & that my will is that his 
heirs & children should have said land with the appurtenances forever.

I give and Bequeath unto my daughter Mary ann one bed bed cloths & bedstead 
& one cow & liberty of living in my mansion house while she remains single.

I give and Bequeath unto my daughter Catherine one bed bed Cloathes and 
one Cow & bedstead & one horse creture and liberty of living in my 
mansion house while she remains single.

It is my will that after all my Just debts and all Charges Concerning 
my estate as well as the Bequests so aforementioned shall be fully paid 
& Satisfied the Clear balance of all monies of my estate shall be equally 
Divided share & share alike Between my sons Jacob Robert & Casper & John 
if he does not take the bequest of land aforesaid and my daughter 
Sarah intermarried with abraham Myers & Mary Ann, Catharine & Elizabeth 
intermarried with Isaac Swatswalter.
My will is that my son Isaac do have an Equal share with the Last above 
named Children by retaining it out of the price of the land I have 
bequeathed to him and to pay for the first half of the land in one year 
after my decease and for the other half price of the land in one year 
after the decease of my loving wife one hundred Dollars and one hundred 
a yearly until all is paid and I make and ordain my sons John Hill & 
Jacob Hill Executors of this my last will and testament in Witness 
Whereof I Gasper Hill the testator have set my hand & seal the ninth 
day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand and Eight hundred 
and thirty three.

Gasper (his mark) Hill (Seal)

Signed, Sealed & acknowledged by the testator in the presence of the 
subscribed as his last will and testament.

John Caldwell, Jacob Findly, William Stanford

Legally proved & appointed the 13th day of June 1833 same recorded & 
letters Testy issued record & sworn before A J ??