Bedford County, PA Will of John Foster

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Bedford County, Pennsylvania   Will Book 1, pages 376-377

John Foster

n the name of God, Amen.  I, John Foster of Ross County Northwestern
Territory being of sound and disposing mind and memory and calculating on the
absolute certainty of death and willing to settle and dispose of  that
portion of earthly goods ?? with which it has pleased divine goodness to
bless me, do therefore make and ordain this present instrument of writing my
last Will and Testament in manner and form following viz.
First my desire is that my body should be decently buried and the expenses
thereof paid of my personal estate.  Item, I give and bequeath to my son
Lewis Foster of Bedford County Pennsylvania, two tracts of land lying and
being in Hopewell Township in the said County of Bedford, one of which tracts
contains ninety-nine and an half acres, and the other contains two hundred
and forty acres or thereabouts, but by the same more or less as to both of
said tracts.  I also give unto my said son Lewis one horse, his choice of the
stock of horses in my possess at my decease, and also all my wearing apparel.
 Item, I give and bequeath unto my son Thomas Foster one cow.  Item. I give
and bequeath to my son John one cow.  Item.  I give and bequeath to my two
sons Benjamin and Joseph and to my two daughters Cassandra Chenowith and
Rachel Chenowith all and singular that tract of land lying and being in the
County of Ross on the waters of the Scioto River, and containing one Thousand
acres, it being the same that I purchas
ed Doctor Knight.  The said land lies six or seven miles above the mouth of
Darby's creek to be equally and fairly divided among them my said two sons
and daughters as aforesaid.  I give and bequeath to my two sons Benjamin and
Joseph a feather bed and furniture, and a cow each, viz, my son Benjamin a
bed and furniture and one cow, and to my son Joseph a bed and furniture and
one cow.  Item.  I give and bequeath to m y son Richard all and singular the
tract of land I live on on the Scioto River in the TeeTee Town bottom
containing three hundred acres of land and also all the residue and remainder
of my estate whether real personal or mixed to him and his heirs forever.  He
my son Richard paying all my just debts and funeral expenses.  And I hereby
nominate and appoint my two sons Thomas and Richard my Executors to this my
last Will and Testament in witness whereof I have hereunto  set my hand and
seal this eleventh day of July 1799
Signed, sealed, published and declared before us               John Foster  seal}
James Pratler, James Oresap, M. Kotley, Sarah Pratler, John Johnson, George
Johnson, John Gooden

Ross County NW.  The foregoing last Will and Testament was duly proven before
my by John Johnson and John Gooden, two of the subscribing witnesses, to have
been duly executed before them by John Foster in his life time.  Witness my
hand and seal this 11th day of February 1800               Sam Finley, JP

State of Ohio Ross County do:  I Humphrey Fullerton, Clerk of the Court of
Common Pleas for the County aforesaid, do certify that the foregoing is a
true copy from the records in my office, in testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed  the seal of said Court this 23rd of September 1813
and in the eleventh year of this state.               Humphrey Fullerton   Clerk
               Filed & Registered 9th October A.D. 1813
(Common Pleas of the County of Ross)