Washington County PA Archives Wills.....Gregg, William July 1814 ************************************************ 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@yahool.com June 5, 2012, 7:03 pm Source: Fhl#863527 Written: July 1814 Recorded: September 20, 1814 Will Book 2, p. 548 In the name of God Amen I William Gregg of Pikerun Township Washington County & state of Pennsylvania being weak in body though sound in memory and recollection do make this my last will and testament revoking all others Believing that it is appointed for all men oncet to dye & after death judgement I do cheerfully (?) resign my body to the grave & my soul to God who gave it And in the next place I do desire my after named Executors to dispose and divide my real & personal estate in the following manner In the first place I do desire that when the God of Heaven & Earth should please to cut the brittle thread of my unworthy life that my Executors should decently bury my shattered frame in the earth I do request that my funeral sermon shall be preached by some person that my executors think proper and after my funeral expenses and my just debts be paid that I will and bequeath unto my step brothers and Nephews all my coopers tools to be equally divided amongst them meaning my father's sons and my sister Nancy's sons. Also I will and bequeath unto my step brother Andrew my saddle and saddle blanket Also I will and bequeath the remainder of my personal estate to my sister Sarah my stepsister Elizabeth and my neace Eleanor Gregg to be equally divided amongst them by my Executors except the account that I have against the estate of John Gregg the deceased that to be divided in the following manner that is to say to be equally divided between my sister Nancy Gregg my sister Sarah Gregg & Elizabeth Nixon daughter of Thomas Nixon. Also I will and bequeath to the aforesaid Elizabeth Nixon thirty dollars a year as long as she lives single & at her marriage then to cease and then all of profits of my real estate to be divided between my sis Sarah & my sister Nancy and their heirs if Sarah should have any but if Sarah should never marry at her death all the profits of my real estate shall go to my sister Nancy & her heirs forever but the land not to be sold while there is an heir legally by law belonging to either of the two above mentioned sisters Nancy & Sarah & for true performance & the execution of this my last will and testament I do appoint Thomas Hopkins Barnent Johnson & Henry Gregg Esq. my Executors as Witness my hand Wm Gregg Attest William Thatcher and William Johnson Washington County ss Be it remembered that on the twentieth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fourteen before me Isaac Kerr Register for the probate of Wills and granting Letters Testamentary in and for said County, came William Thatcher and William Johnson, the subscribing witnesses to the within last will and testament, of William Gregg, late of the county aforesaid, deceased, who being duly sworn as the law directs, do depose and say that they were personally present, and did see the Testator herein named, sign this 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 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. And sworn and subscribed before me Isaac Kerr, Register William Thatcher William Johnson September 20th 1814 Letters Testamentary with copy of the will and probate annexed issued to Thomas Hopkins Esquire, Barnet Johnson, and Henry Gregg Esquire who on the same day were duly sworn. Isaac Kerr, Register Registered and compared with the original the 20th day of September 1814. Isaac Kerr, Register This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/pafiles/ File size: 4.2 Kb