WILL: ISAAC HILL, WESTMORELAND COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA

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In the name of God Amen I Isaac Hill of  the Township of Fairfield 
and County of Westmoreland and State of Pennsylvania being weak of 
body but of sound mind and memory ( praise be God for the same ) 
and considering the Certainty of Death and the uncertainty of the 
time thereof and to that end I may be the better prepared to leave 
this World whenever it shall please God to call me home do therefore 
make and 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 the 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 my death 
together with any funeral expense and all charges touching the 
proving of or otherwise concerning this my will shall in the first 
place  out of any (?) estate and effects be fully paid and after 
payment then my will is that all the residue of the goods and 
chattel and household furniture I give and bequeath unto my loving 
wife Jean Absolutely to be disposed of as she sees proper amongst 
my children - I give and bequeath unto my loving wife all that 
piece or parcel of land in Indiana County that was her Father's 
and is part of her legacy for her to dispose of as she sees proper  
then my will is that all the plantation or tract  of land I now 
reside on with the appurtenances - and also the saw mill place 
adjoining said place be and remain under the care and management 
of my Wife Jean & the whole unto issued and (proper?) thereof 
under her Control to be disposed of as she sees proper Amongst 
my Children While she remains my widow  And I make and ordain my 
loving wife Jean guardian of my four children Hannah Ann & 
Joseph Graham and John until each of the said children shall 
arrive at full age  if she should live so long or remain my Widow  
And if she does marry then my Will is that she have the one third 
of my real estate at that time to dispose of as she sees proper  
And then my Will is that guardians shall be appointed my the ? 
Court for my said Children - And I make and ordain my loving 
Wife Jean my executrix & my mother Irin Hill  executors of this 
my last will & testament --  ________ my hand and seal 
the22nd Jany 1835 ___

Signed sealed and acknowledged by the testates in the Presence 
of the   ?  }  Isaac HIll
as his last will and testament ___ John Caldwell Alex Van Horn                     }

(next word cut off ) ?????  17  April 1835 --  Letter testamentary 
issued to executors 18 inst? Who 
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