Last Will and Testament of Methuselah Davis (1752): Chester Co., PA

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                           Methuselah DAVIS Will
                          Proved 2nd October, 1752
                    Recorded in Book C, Volume 3, Page 372
                                 No. 1451

I, Methuselah DAVIS, of the County of Chester in the province of Pennsylvania 
Yeoman being about removing out of this province being also in perfect health 
and of Sound and Disposing mind and memory Do Make this my Last Will and 
Testament in Mannor following this is to say Imprimse my Will is that all my 
Just Debts and funeral Charges be paid as soon as maybe after my Docous 
(Decease?).

Item- I give and bequeath unto my Daughter Sidney one Moisty or half part of my 
Whole Estate Whatsoever or in Whomsoever's hands the same may be found to be 
paid to my said daughter when she arrives to the age of eighteen years and the 
other Moisty or half part of my Estate I give and Bequeath to the child that my 
wife Elizabeth is now pregnant with, but if either of said Children Shall Dye 
During theire minority it is my Will that the Surviving Child Shall Possess and 
Enjoy Both Moistyos But in Cause that both Children Should Dye During theire 
Minority Then and in Such a Cause it is my Will that my Whole Estate be Equally 
Divided between the Children of my Sister Anne the Wife of William P_ _ on (Note 
by submitter, Sam D. Lawson: appears to be Proon???) of the Township of 
Whiteland in Chester County and the Children of Thomas HARRIOS Roboson Township 
in Lancaster County, Docd. (Deceased???) Exceping the Sum of thirty pounds 
Current Money of this province which I give and Be!
queath Unto Mary the Daughter of Isaac DAVIS Esq. Lastly, I Do hereby Nominate 
Constitute and Appoint my Trusty friend Joseph BONSALL Esquire and Israel DAVIS 
Both of Chester County my Sole Executors to this my Last Will and Testament 
Revoking all other Wills and Testaments by me Made In Witness whorsof I have 
hereunto Set My hand and Seal the twenty Seventh Day of December in the year of 
our Lord One thousand Seven hundred and fifty- 1750

Signed Sealed published pronounced and Declared by me the within Named 
Methuselah DAVIS to be my Last Will and Testament in the presence of

John MALCHOR----
Jacob DAVIS        '----------2 October 1752                  '
Isaac DAVID---------'         Jurat-                                 '--------- 
Methuselah DAVIS (signature)
                                     Jno. y 2nd  Nov. 1752          '
                                     Israel DAVIS  Jurat us/ Ext. '


CHESTER October 2nd: 1752
      THEN Personally Appeared John MALCHOR Jacob DAVIS and Isaac DAVID the 
Witnesses to the Will Who on their Oaths on the holy Evangelists of Almighty God 
did declare and Say that they were Personally Present and did see and hear 
Methuselah DAVIS the Testator Above named Sign Seal Publish Pronounce and 
Declare the above and Within Writing to be his Last will and Testament and that 
at doing thereof he was of Sound Mind and Memory to the Best of their 
Understandings, And also that their names thereunto Subscribed as Witnesses are 
of their own Proper hands Writings Respectively

Jurat Corawe
Jo Parkerskeg