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The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. ___________________________________________________________ Blair County Courthouse, Hollidaysburg, Blair County, PA, Wills, Vol. A, page 58. Isaac SPARR I, Isaac Sparr of Woodberry Township in the County of Blair, State Pennsylvania, being of sound and disposing mind and memory, do make and declare this my last Will and Testament. I give will and devise unto my wife Eliza the one third of the proceeds of the farm on which grow ___ on each and every ___ of her ___ ___ time to be paid her by my ___ herein after named executor, together with the privilege of living and remaining in the house I now reside she having the use and occupancy of two rooms in one ___ of said house during her natural life. I also give my said wife Eliza the one third of all my house hold and kitchen furniture to be given her by my herein after names executor at the appraised value. I give will and devise unto my nephew John Sparr son of my brother John Sparr the farm or tract of land which I bought of Hobert Crisswell and John K- dler containing about one hundred and thirty or forty acres with singular all the rights and privileges hereto together with fifty acres off the mountain tract of land I own adjoining Royer Smucher and others on ___ mountain in said Township County and State aforesaid to be divided off the west end of side adjoining lands of John Smith Fuder and others. I give will and devise to my brother Samuel Sparr one thousand dollars to be deducted out of a note or single bill I hold against him. I give will and devise unto my child should my wife Eliza have one the price or tract of land I now reside on situate in said Township, County and State aforesaid adjoining lands Henry Harbison, Samuel Dean, Samuel Sparr and others together with the remaining part of said mountain tract of land above described and I also give will and devise unto my said child all my personal estate that I now have or may have, at the time of my death with the profits and proceeds of said pieces of tracts of land subject to the before mentioned devises and bequests and in case my said wife Eliza should not have any lawful child to me or in the event of my said child dying before it arrives at the age of twenty one years without any lawful heir, then in that case I give will and devise unto my nephew William and Isaac Sparr sons of my brother David Sparr, Christian Sparr son of Samuel Sparr the farm or tract of land on which I now reside and the balance of said mountain tract of land ___ pieces of tracts of land being before described as to locations etc. to have and to hold the same subject to all the before mentioned devises and bequests. I give will and devise unto my nephews Levi and Christian Sparr sons of my brother David Sparr all my personal estate that I now have or may have at the time of my death subject to all the before mentioned conditions devises and bequests. And lastly I do hereby nominate and appoint my brother David Sparr and my nephew John Sparr son of my brother John Sparr the Executors of this my last will and testament with the full right and ___ to ___ and ___ ___ and wife ___ as may be necessary those two last described pieces or tracts of land and to receive all money that may be coming to my said ___ in case my said Eliza should have one as before mentioned and to ___ or part ___ ___ interest ___ safe lands for the use of my said child. In Testimony Thereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this ___ day of June A.D 18--. Signed published and declared as the Last will and Testament of Isaac Sparr in the presence of us the day and year aforesaid. The following being first ___ tract in the Nineteenth line with in the twenty-ninth line. Isaac Sparr Joshua Roller John K. Neff Henry Harbison Blair County ss: Before me the Deputy Register for the Probate of Wills and granting letters of Administration in and for the said County of Blair, personally came Joshua Roller who being duly sworn according to law do depose and say that he was personally present and saw and heard the within named Isaac Spar[r] sign seal execute, publish pronounce and declare the within and foregoing instrument of writing as and for his last will and Testament, and that this deponent did sign his name thereto as a witness in the presence of the other witnesses and in the presence of the said Testator, and at his instance and request, and that the said Testator was at the time of sound and deposing mind memory and understanding to the best of his knowledge and belief. Sworn and Subscribed the 12th day of July A.D. 1847 before Joshua Roller Wm. C. McCormick Dep'y Register Blair County ss: Before me the Deputy Register for the Probate of Wills and granting letters of administration in and for said County of Blair, personally came Henry Harbison who being duly sworn according to law do depose and say that he was personally present and saw and heard the within named Isaac Spar[r] sign seal execute publish pronounce and declare the within and foregoing instrument of writing as and for his last will and Testament and that this deponent did sign his name thereto as a witness in the presence of the other witnesses and in the presence of the said Testator and at his instance and request, and that the said Testator was of the time of sound and deposing mind memory and understanding to the best of his knowledge and belief. Sworn and Subscribed the 13th day of July A.D. 1847 before Henry Harbison Wm. C. McCormick Dep'y Register Registered the 13th day of July A.D. 1847 By Wm. C. McCormick Dep'y Register