WILL: Peter POOL, 1861, 1864, Tyrone Township, Blair County, PA
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Blair County Will Book B, page 196
The Last Will and Testament of Peter Pool, dec'd.
I Peter Pool of the Township of Tyrone, County of Blair and State of
Pennsylvania, do make and publish this my Last Will and Testament,
hereby revoking and making void all former wills by me at any time
heretofor made. - And first - as to such worldly estate as it hath
pleased God to entrust me with. I do dispose of the same as follows.
I direct that all my debts and funeral expenses be paid as soon after
my death as possible out of the first moneys that shall come into the
hands of my executors herein after named from any portion of my estate.
I direct that my executors or the survivor of them cause all my
personal effects to be appraised and my wife if she be then living to
have to amount of one third of said appraisement to be selected by her
to hold and possess the same during her natural life or so long as she
remains my widow. At her death, or if she marry again, the same to
revert to the benefit of my heirs hereinafter directed, the remainder
of my personal effects to be sold at public or private sale and the
nett proceeds thereof with any moneys that may be in their hands from
my estate after the payment of all my just debts and expenses to be
distributed by them as follows. Share and share alike between my three
daughters hereinafter named. I also further order and direct my
executors or the survivor of them as soon after my decease as they may
think proper to sell at public or private sale my mansion tract of land
where on I now reside with the appurtenances for such price or prices
and on such terms, cash or otherwise as they may consider most
advantageous. The one third of the purchase money to remain in the
purchasers hand so long as my wife may live or remain my widow, the
interest to be annually paid to her. If my said executors can make any
other satisfactory arrangement with her, by a specific payment in lieu
of said interest, they are directed to do so. And the nett proceeds of
my real estate I direct to be distributed as follows: One hundred
dollars to be paid to my daughter Margaret intermarried with John
McMullen. One hundred dollars to be paid to my daughter Sarah Ann
intermarried with John W Hasson - Said two payments being made, I
direct that the balance be paid, one third to my daughter Margaret
herein named one third to my daughter Sarah Ann herein named and the
remaining third to be placed at interest and the said interest to be
annually paid to my daughter Wilhelminah intermarried with Curtis
Kidder during her natural life, and at her death to be paid to her
children then living, share and share alike. And for the purpose
aforesaid, I do hereby authorise and empower my said executors or the
survivor of them to sign, seal, execute, and deliver such deed of
conveyance as may be necessary for the granting and issuing said tract
of land to the purchaser thereof. And I do hereby nominate constitute
and appoint my trust worthy neighbours James Crawford and Joseph
Crawford executors of this my last will and testament. In witness
whereof I Peter Pool the said testator have herewith set my hand and
seal this seventh day of December in the year of our lord one thousand
eight hundred and sixty one. (The word seal interlined before signing)
Signed Sealed and Acknowledged in the presence of us who have
subscribed the same in the presence of testator and of each other.
Peter Pool {Seal}
James Clarke
John Keith
I Peter Pool Testator named in Will on this sheet of paper desire that
said Will be altered and amended where my Executors are required to pay
my daughter Wilhelminah the interest annually on that share of my real
estate to which she will be entitled so long as she may live - It is
my will and desire that if her husband Curtis Kidder should die before
her that my Executors proceed to collect and pay to my said daughter
Wilhelminah the principal of the dower herein willed to her children,
and the same to be my said daughters absolute. In Witness whereof I
Peter Pool Testator as aforesaid have hereunto set my hand and seal to
this codicil of my Last Will and Testament this second day of May
Eighteen Hundred and Sixty Two -
Peter Pool {Seal}
Signed Sealed and delivered in the presence of us who have subscribed
the same in presence of Testator -
James Clarke
John Biegel
Blair County SS - Before me the Register for the Probate of Wills and
granting letters of Administration in and for Blair County personally
appeared James Clark & John Keith who being duly sworn did depose and
say that they were personally present and did hear and see the above
named Peter Pool sign, seal, execute, publish, pronounce and declare
the within and foregoing instrument of writing as and for his Last Will
and Testament that they signed their names as Witnesses thereto in the
presence of each other and in the presence & at the request of the said
Testator, and that at the signing of the same the said Testator was
sound and desposing mind, memory and understanding to the best of their
knowledge and belief.
James Clarke
John Keith
Sworn and subscribed before me this 11th day of June AD 1862 -
H A Caldwell, Register.
Blair County SS - Before me the Register for the Probate of Wills and
granting letters of Administration and for the said County personally
came James Clarke and John Biegel who being duly sworn did depose and
say they were personally present and did see and hear Peter Pool sign
seal execute, publish, pronounce and declare the within and foregoing
instrument of writing appended to this paper to be a Codicil to and
part of his Last Will and Testament that they signed their names as
Witnesses thereto in the presence of each other and in the presence and
at the request of the said Testator, and at the time of signing of the
said Codicil, the said Testator was of sound and disposing mind memory
and understanding to the best of their knowledge and belief. - Sworn
and Subscribed before me this 11th day of June AD 1862 -
H A Caldwell
James Clark
John Biegel
Registered June 11th 1862 by H A Caldwell Reg. Register.
Fees $4.30
Tax $.50
$4.80 Paid
Matthew Stewart & John McMullen Administrators cum testamento annexo of
Peter Pool dec'd.
Bond in $1000 00
Thad. McMullen and David K. Reamey?, ___?
Memorandum: Renunciation of James & Joseph Crawford & widows filed, and
Letters of Administration cum testamento annexo issued this day to
Matthew Stweart & John McMullen on the estate of Peter Pool, late of
Tyrone Township, Blair County, dec'd. An Inventory of the goods to be
exhibited in thirty days and a just and true account, calculation, &
reckoning of their said administration within one year from this date
hereof or when thereunto legally required or In Testimony whereof the
forgoing is given under my hand and official seal at Hollidaysburg,
June 11th, 1862. - Inventory filed June 30th 1862. Vendue List filed
some day ___. Real Estate Bond filed Sept 26th, 1862 - Partial Acct
filed Dec 18th 1862. Certified to O. Court to Jany. 2, 1864.