Chester County PA Archives Wills.....Ephraim JACKSON, 1732

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Will of Ephraim Jackson
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The Eleventh Day of the Seventh month (Called September) one Thousand 
Seven hundred & thirty two.
I Ephraim Jackson of Edgmont in ye County of Chester in ye Province of 
Pensilvania yoeman being well stricken in Years and Calling to mind the 
mortality of my Body, and being of Perfect mind and memory Thanks be given 
to God therefore: Knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die. Do 
make & ordain this my last will and Testament: that is to say Principally 
& first of all I give & Recomend my Soul into ye hands of God that gave 
it; and for my Body I recomend it to the Earth to be buried in a Christian 
Like and Decent manner at the Descretion of my Executors hereinafter named.
And as touching Such wordly Estate where with it hath pleased god to Bless 
me with in this life.
I give Devise & Dispose of the Same in the following manner and form. 
Imprimis I give and Bequeath unto Rachel my Dearly Beloved wife the sum of 
one hundred & twenty five pounds of good & lawful money of Pensilvania to 
be levied & raised out of my Estate together with my best Bead Beding and 
all the furniture thereunto belonging or any wise appertaining, the 
warming pann and the box iron the ovel table & Cloth four napkins, two 
Chairs two Pewter Dishes, four Spoons two knives & forks, the Iron Pott 
that was her mothers, and the best Cow and mare, and the best Chest and 
Dressing Box. Item.... I give to my son John ten pounds. Item I give to my 
son Joseph ten pounds.
Item.... I give to my son Nathaniel twenty Shillings and all the Book Debt 
that he oweth me.
Item.... I give to my son Samuel ten pounds. Item I give to my son Ephraim 
twenty pounds.
Item ....I give to my daughter Mary ten pounds and to her husband twenty 
Shillings.
Item.... I give to my daughter Rachel ten pounds and twenty Shillings to 
her husband.
Item.... I give to my son Nathan Thirty pounds all the said Legacies above 
mentioned to be given, to be paid to my Executors hereinafter named in 
Lawfull money of the County aforesaid in one year after my Decease.
Item..... I give five pounds to my grand Daughter Elizabeth and five 
pounds to my grand son John to be paid when they Shall come to ye age of 
one and twenty years and my will is that when all my just Debts and my 
funerall Expenses and Charge Shall be paid and Discharged and Legacies; 
what is above Shall be Equally Divided amongst all my Children that shall 
be living at my Decease: Except Elizabeth and John, and my will is that 
all my Just Debts and Funerall Charges Shall be first paid and Discharged 
and that my wife shall be next and all the Rest of the money can be Raised 
out of that little Estate I leave behind me. AND I do hereby constitute 
make and ordaine my Loving wife Rachel Jackson and my Loving friend 
William Hammon, of Upper Providence mill in the Said County of Chester 
province aforsaid if he shall be in these parts to be had if not then Evan 
Lewis of Newtown in the County aforesd. Yoeman; to be my only and Sole 
Executors of this my last will
and testament.
Giving to them Lawfull & absolute Power and authority to Sell all my 
Estate both Reall and pearsonall Except what is above Bequeathed and to 
make a lawfull title to the Same; and full power to receive and recover 
all money Due to me or to become Due. And I do hereby utterly Disallow, 
Revoake and Disannull all and every other former Testaments wills, 
Legacies and Executors, by me in any wise before this time named, willed 
and bequeathed, Rattifing & Confirming this and no other, to be my last 
will and Testament in witness whereof I have hereunto Set my hand & Seal 
the day and year above written, Signed, Published, Pronounced by the Said 
Ephraim Jackson as his last will and testament in the Presence of us the 
Subscribers Viz:
Eph: Jackson
Chester March 30th: 1733;-Memo of the above will was Produced before 
Joseph Parker, D.Reg. for the said County of ye............. and or ye 
hand and Seals of all persons interested in the same who acknowledged the 
Said will to be the hand writing of the Testator and give their assent 
that same Should be provd & received in the aforsaid office.
J. Parker, D.Reg.





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