Wills: Christian Rhodes, 1848: Redbank Twp, Clarion Co

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Last Will & Testament of Christian Rhodes

I Christian Rhodes of Redbank Township Clarion County being weak of body
but of sound and disposing mind and retentive memory and giving the
uncertainty of life and being desirous to settle my worldly affairs
while so capacitated I constitute this my last will and testament.

And first and principally I will my soul to God who gave it trusting in
his son's merit for salvation and my body to the dust to be decently
interred.
Second   to my son Henry I bequeath a tract of land containing one
hundred acres more or less situated in Redbank Township joining lands of
Abraham Rhodes, George Frazier and John Algo for which said Henry Rhodes
is to pay to the heirs or assignees of said Christian Rhodes the sum of
three hundred-fifty dollars on the first day of June 1849, and fifty
dollars on the first day of June 1850, and fifty dollars on the first
day of June 1851 and the balance on the first days of June 1852 and
there on equal payments of one hundred dollars each.   And to my wife
Eliabeth, I bequeath my household furniture and one cow, and the
remaining of my personal effects.  I bequeath to my several children
share and share alike.  And further I appoint my son Abraham Rhodes
executor of this my last will and testament.  In witness whereof, I
hereunto set my hand and seal this thirty-first day of March AD 1848.
                                                       his
                                             Christian  X  Rhodes
                                                       mark
Witness: John Stahlman, Joseph Cochran
(NOTE: wife Elizabeth - Elizabeth Nulf (2nd)wife)