ESTATE: Jonathan NEFF, 1863, Logan Township, Blair County, PA
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Source: Blair County Orphans Court Docket Vol C Page 228
Written: August 1863
Orphans Court Docket Vol. C, Page 228, No. 150, 1863
1863 No. 150 Proof being made of the due service of the rule of this
Court granted at April Term last on the heirs and legal representatives
of Jonathan Neff late of Logan township Blair County deceased to appear
in court at the present time and accept or refuse and take the real
estate of the said deceased at the valuation thereof or show cause why
the same should not be sold, being the following described lands lying
in Logan township bounded on the north by lands of Elias Baker, on the
east by lands of Jonathan Stiteler, on the south by lands of Peter Good
and on the west by lands of Mrs. Anna Maria Kinsel and containing about
sixty seven acres and being part of the Old George Kuns survey valued
and appraised by the inquest at the sum of three thousand seven hundred
and thirty three dollars and twenty five cents. Samuel Koon alienee of
Mary Williamson formerly Neff, heir of said deceased appears and
accepts in the right of the said Mary Williamson (none of the other
heirs appearing) the said real estate at the valuation whereupon 3rd
August A.D. 1863 the court do decree the same to him the said Samuel
Koon in right of the said Mary Williamson his heirs and assigns proved
as fully and fairly as the said deceased had and held the same in his
lifetime on his paying or securing to be paid to the other heirs and
legal representatives of the said decd, their equal and porportionable
shares of the two thirds of said valuation with interest the remaining
one third at and immediately after the death of the said widow and
shall annually pay to the said widow the legal interest of the one
third part of said valuation according to law.
Valuation $3733.25
Recd. T. B. Expenses Atty Baukr $50.00
Filing Fee $ 12.00
Sheriff Wm Camart $10.12
" " on Rule $2.50
Clerk Morrow $4.31 $78.93
Recd of Samuel Koon A S Morrow $78.93
1863 No. 151 Recognizence of Samuel Koon, John Young, and Wm. W.
Jackson to Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
In the Orphans Court of Blair County We Samuel Koon and John Young
and William W. Jackson of said county do acknowledge ourselves to our
and be indebted to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for the use of the
widow and heirs of the said Jonathan Neff the sum of Ten thousand
dollars lawful money of the United States to be levied of our goods and
chattels, lands, and tenements. The condition of this recognizance is
such that if the said Samuel Koon, his heirs, executors and
administrators shall pay to the widow and heirs of said Jonathan Neff
their several shares and pursuits in the valuation money of certain
real estate adjudged to the said Samuel Koon by the Orphan Court of
said county this day according to law there the above Recognizence to
be void else to be of full force and virtue. Samuel Koon (seal)
John Young (seal)
Wm W. Jackson (seal)
Taken acknowledged to open court August 3rd, 1863 A. S. Morrow
And now 26 September 1863 We Penina Kunsman and William Kunsman do
hereby each of us acknowledge to have received from Samuel Koon the sum
of seven hundred and eighty six dollars and forty three cents being the
principal and interest due us on the above Recognizence in full.
Penina Kusman
Wm. S. Kusman
Witness A. S. Morrow
For satisfaction of above recognizence see Partition Docket F page 571.
Additional Comments:
Samuel Koon, Mary Williamson, John Young, Wm. W. Jackson
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