Beaver County PA Archives Wills: William Tindall, 1836: Shenango Township
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William Tindall died 14 Jan 1838 and was buried in the old Tindall
Graveyard which was adjacent to his home on Sand Bank Rd. about a mile and a
half south east of the village of West Pittsburgh. The cemetery is now
abandoned and has been vandalized but because he was a Revolutionary soldier,
one of the local Boy Scout troops recovered his stone in the mid 1970s and
moved it to Savannah Cemetery in Shenango Twp., Lawrence Co. PA. William made
his will 12 Sep 1836 and it was proven 31 Jan 1838. His will reads (Beaver
County Will Book B, page 165):
" IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN: I William Tindall of Shenango Township Beaver
County and State of Pennsylvania being in good health of body and of sound
and disposing memory and being now desirous to settle my worldly affairs
whilst I have strength and capacity so to do, do make and publish this my
last will and testament hereby revoking and making void all wills by me at
any time heretofore made- and first and principally I commit my soul into the
hands of my creator who gave it and my body to the earth to be interred in
the burying ground on my own farm. And as to such worldly estate as I am in
possession of and own in anywise belonging to me, I dispose of the same in
the manner following. I will that all my just debts as shall by me be owing
at my death and together with my funeral expenses and all charges touching
the proving of or otherwise concerning this my last will, shall be paid by my
executors out of moneys which I have laid up and intend to lay up and have
reserved for that purpose. And if so that my wife Elizabeth shall outlive and
survive after me, I will that all my personal property should be all left in
the same condition that is when I leave it in her hands at her own disposal
for her use during her natural life time. And to my children I will that they
shall have of my estate to be paid to them by my executors in money in the
manner following Viz: To Edy my eldest daughter (wife to Abraham Brown) one
dollar. To William Tindall my eldest son one dollar. To Sarah one dollar. To
Thomas Tindall my son one dollar and to Elizabeth one dollar. To Margaret one
dollar and to my youngest son Zachariah, I will and bequeath all my farm and
plantation of land of two hundred acres or thereabouts to hold the same in
fee simple as I now hold and possess it, for him the said Zachariah Tindall
to have and enjoy the same forever. And further my will and meaning is that
if so be that there is not money sufficient which is laid up and reserved by
me which may come into the hands of my executors after my decease to defray
and pay the expenses and charges afore named and also to pay the sum allowed
by me to my children as aforenamed. That Zachariah shall be bound to pay the
same out of his own estate. And further I will and provide that if my wife
Elizabeth shall survive me in this world that she shall have and enjoy as her
residence during her natural life the mansion house in which I now with her
do live. -under the care and protection of the said Zachariah Tindall (my
son) he providing and taking the necessary care and provision of and for her
in sickness and in health and I do hereby make ordain and constitute John T.
Cunningham Esquire and Zachariah Tindall Executors of this my last will and
testament and hereby empowering to do all things commanded, by me in this my
last will and testament to be done as is enjoined on them by law as Executors
of the same. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF I, William Tindall have hereunto set my
hand and affixed my own seal this twelfth day of September in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty six.
his
William x Tindall (SEAL)"
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The will was witnessed by Jacob Allen and Jos. Iddings.