Estate of: Jacob Geiger, 1851: Pottsgrove, Montgomery Co, PA
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Petition for sale of real estate of Jacob GEIGER, dec'd, Pottsgrove
Oct 31, 1851 - E.B. 11, page 334, Montgomery Co., PA Archives
To the Honorable the Judges of the Orphans Court of Montgomery County.
The petition of John GEIGER, Administrator of Jacob GEIGER, late of the
township of Pottsgrove in said County, who died Intestate Respectfully
represents - That the said Intestate left issue twelve children to wit: Samuel,
Mary now the wife of George HATFIELD, Rebecca intermarried with Christian YERGY
who is now deceased, David, Catharine now the wife of John PEARCE, Sarah, now
the wife of Henry BEAR, Charles, Jacob, Henry, John, Christianna now the wife
of Jacob STITCHER, and Joseph, all of whom have attained their full age. That
the personal Estate of the said Intestate is insufficient for the payment of
his debts as by the account herewith produced appears: And that the said
Intestate died seized in his demesne as of fee and in a certain messuage [sic]
and tract of land situated in the township of Pottsgrove, fronting on the
Reading and Perkiomen turnpike and adjoining lands of Isaac CHRISTMAN, Jacob
GEIGER, and public road leading from the said Reading and Perkiomen turnpike to
the Swamp Churches, containing five acres more or less. Your petitioner there-
fore prays your honors to grant him and order to make sale of the said messuage
and tract of land with the appurtenances for the payment of the debts of the
said intestate and Herewith prays.
John GEIGER (signature)
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Inventory of Estate
A true and perfect Inventory and Conscionable appraisement of all the personal
Estate of the said Intestate. Amount of Inventory filed in Register Office -
$119.00
A just and true account of all the debts of the said Intestate which have come
to the knowledge of the petioners.
Jacob GEIGER, mortgage and note - $907.58; David WEAND - $5.17; Sarah BOLIG -
$ 6.38; Unstead WELLS - $1.49; Isaac RHOADS - $0.75; John GEIGER - $12.22
The within described premises is all the Real Estate of the said Intestate,
where so ever situate that has come to the knowledge of your petitioner.
John GEIGER (signature)
Montgomery County: Personally appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of
the Peace in and for said County John GEIGER the written named petitioner who
being duly sworn according to law did depose and say that the facts set forth
in the written petition and accompanying statements are true and correct to the
best of his knowledge and belief.
John GEIGER (signature)
This 31st day of October A.D. 1851. Jno H. HOBARD (signature)
We the undersigned do hereby certify that we have a knowledge of the written
described premises for which an order of sale is prayed, and that in our opinion
it is worth about the sum of Six hundred Dollars.
Levi RICHARDS (signature) Jonas SMITT (signature)
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Order to Sell, EB 11, p. 334
Where Upon, the Court, upon due consideration had of the premises, order and
direct that the said administrator.....expose the said Messuage and tract or
piece of land with the appurtenances, to sale by public vendue, or outcry,
and sell the same for the purpose in the said petition mentioned, for the best
price that can be had therefore - and that due public and timely notice of the
time and place of sale be given according to law, and the rules of the said
Court, and that he make report of his proceedings herein, to the next stated
Orphans Court to be held for the said County of Montgomery, after such sale.
By the Courts,
Clerk of said Orphans Court.
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Report of Sale
To the Honorable the Judges of the Orphans Court of Montgomery County
The undersigned administrator written named Respectfully Reports - That in
pursuance of the written order of Court after having given due public and
timely notice of the time and place of sale he did on Saturday the 27th day of
December A.D. 1851 expose the lands and tenements therein mentioned to sale by
public vendue or outcry and sold the same to Jacob GEIGER for the sum of seven
hundred and fifty dollars ($750) he being the highest bidder and that being the
highest and best price bidden for the same - which sale so as aforesaid
made he prays may be confirmed by the court.
John GEIGER (signature)
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Additional from Will of Jacob Yorgey, 1884 Douglass Twp., Berks County, PA
Vol. 15, page 113:
Codicil to the will: 8-6-1877
I hereby declare as follows - My said daughter Rachel with her first husband
David Keyser, who is also deceased, left issue a son named Jacob Y. Keyser
and three daughters named Elmina, Leah, and Malinda. The five hundred dollars
mentioned in Item 2nd payable two years after the first day of April after my
decease, to my said daughter Rachel I now give and devise as follows-one
hundred dollars thereof to my grandchildren Edmond, Milton, Columbus and George
Wellington Geiger in equal shares......I hereby appoint Edmond Geiger to be the
guardians of his brothers Columbus and George Wellington Geiger......
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Note: Rachel Yorgey (b1-24-184?) m. 1st David Keiser and had children: 1) Jacob,
2) Elmina m. John Egolf, 3) Leah m. Harrison Rhoads, and 4) Malinda m. John
Mauger. Rachel m. 2nd to John Geiger and their children were: Edmond Geiger;
Milton Geiger; Columbus Geiger; and George Wellington Geiger (b.1-26-1864 bpt.
Emmanuel Lutheran Ch., Pottstown, PA, sponsors were Jacob Yorgey and Sarah.
Jacob Hanselman Yorgey (1797-1884) m. Sarah Ann Reifsnyder (1800-1871) both
buried East End Cemetery, Pottstown, PA had children: Charlotte (1820-1905) m
Frederick W. Nieman; George (1821-1906) m. Elizabeth Bower; Rachel (b. 1824) m.
1st David Keiser, 2nd John Geiger; Christian (1825-1869) m. Matilda Fritz;
Ephriam (1828-1884) m. Hannah Bechtel; Leah (1831-1884) m. Henry Baker; Sarah
Ann (1839-1872) m. Henry E. Rhoads.