Post by Leslie Kyle on Feb 13, 2006 1:50:34 GMT -5
In the name of God Amen. I Samuel Kyle of Tyrone township, Huntingdon County
and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania being some what indisposed in body but of
sound and perfect mind and memory and knowing the uncertainty of life and that
it is appointed for all living once to die and in order to promise peace and
unanimity amongst those concerned and for One _____ easy and ready settling
and disposing of that portion of the ____ things in which it hath pleased the
Lord to bestow upon me in this lifes (In primis) _____ resign my immortal and
never dying soul to him from whom I received it who is God of Gods and Lord of
Lords and my mortal body to the earth from whence came to be interred in a
Christian like manner in full belief that it shall rise again at that rat and
general day when all shall hence forth that God may judge them. Item first I
order that all my just and lawful debts be first punctually paid. I together
with the cost and agencies accruing from my funeral out of my personal
estate. Item second I leave and bequeath to my well beloved wife Jennet Kyle
the use and benefit of the old end of the dwelling house both above and below
during her natural life with one half of the garden and part of the spring
house for her milk and I also bequeath to my said wife two of her choice of my
beds and bedsteads and clothes fitting for the same and I bequeath to her the
half of what grain that would come to me yearly from the Tenant of wheat rye
corn buckwheat and oats and ten bushel of potatoes yearly and also fifteen
dollars in cash yearly during her natural life and she is to have the Bay
horse known by the name of Charley and the Bald mare's colt and her choice of
two of the milk cows and her choice of two of the milk cows and her choice of
six sheep out of the flock and my said wife is to have a sufficiency of
pastuer in the summer for horses cowes and sheep and also a sufficience of hay
of the farm yearly for them in the winter and stable for horse and cows in the
winter and my said wife is to have half in bushel of flexen sowed for her
yearly on the farm and to be put in for her in good _____ & in good order and
she is to hae use of the clock and carpets in the house during her life and I
leave her fifty dollars of the Huntingdon Bank stock with interest on the same
until paid and she is also have the large copper cattle (kettle?) and tubs and
kitchen furniture as much as she thinks necessary for her to keep during her
life and her saddle and to a sufficient quantity of firewood cut and halled to
her early during her life, and to Susana Campbell during the time of her
Indenture and my said wife is to have six of her choice of the chairs in the
house and she is to have also the woolen and linen yarn and cloth and the wool
of the flock of sheep this spring if not _______ my decease. 3rd I leave and
bequeath to Nance Haggarty one white cow known by the name of her cow and I
leave also to her six sheep if there are so many of her mark alive. 4th I
leave and bequeath to Samuel Edie Kyle Duncan the sum of two hundred dollars
lawful money of the United States to be aid to his guardian for the use of the
said Samuel Edie Kyle Duncan four years after my decease and I leave to the
said Samuel Edie Kyle Duncan my watch. 5th I leave and bequeath to my dutiful
daughter Nancy Buchanan for the use and benefit of her legal heirs the one
half of the remaining part of my real and personal property after the
aforesaid bequest and legacies are fully satisfied and paid. I leave my said
daughter Nancy the one half of the remainder of the Huntingdon Bank stock
belonging to me after what is already bequeathed also the half of my part of
the Indiana and Cambria Turnpike stock and the one half of a tract of land in
Indiana County to her and to her legal heirs forever and also the half of what
money is due by James Richards of Armstrong County or otherwise if not paid by
said Richards the half of said tract purchased by him from me and I also
bequeath to my said daughter Nancy Buchanan the one half my land in Sinking
Valley after the decease of my beloved wife, to her and her heirs forever.
6th, I leave and bequeath to my dutiful daughter Margaret Kyle alias Margaret
Duncan for the use and benefit of her legal heirs the one half of my estate
real and personal in equal proportion with my daughter Nancy after the
forementioned legacies are fully paid or satisfied that is the half of the
remainder of the Huntingdon Bank stock after the first bequest out of are
fully paid the half of my part of the Indiana and Cambria turnpike stock and
the half of a tract of land in Indiana County to her and her legal heir
forever and also the half of what money is due by James Richards for a tract
of land bought by said Richards from me lying in Armstrong County and in case
said James Richards are not able to pay for said tract of land, I leave and
bequeath the half of said tract to my said daughter Margaret Duncan to her and
her heirs forever and I bequeath the half of my estate in Sinking Valley after
the decease of my beloved wife Jenet Kyle to Margaret Duncan and her heir
forever. I do hereby bequeath and leave to my wife and executors my library
of books to be amicably those of a religious nature then those on Arithmatick,
Mathematics of the Law to be divided between George Buchanan and Samuel
Duncan. And I do hereby constitute make and ordain Jennet Kyle Executrix and
George Buchanan and Samuel Duncan my sole Executors of this my last Will and
Testament and I do authorize those my said Executors of make sale of any of my
Back lands or any part of said back lands sold by me for my said Executors to
make a deed or deeds of Conveyance for the same as available in law or equity
as if I myself were personally present to the said purchaser or purchasers.
And I do hereby utterly disallow revoke disannul all and every other and
former will Testament Will legacies bequests and Executor by me or any before
named Willed and bequeathed satisfying and confirming this and no other to be
last Will & Testament. I witnof whereof I have thereunto set my hand and seal
this sixteenth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred twenty seven 1827.
/s/ Samuel Kyle
Signed, sealed. Pronounced & declared by the said Samuel Kyle in presence of
us William McCormick, Edie Stewart.
Huntingdon County:
Before me the subscriber Register for the probate of Wills & granting Letters
of Administration in and for the County of Huntingdon personally appeared
William McCormick and Edie Stewart who being sworn according to law, depose
and say that they were personally present and did see and hear the within
named Samuel Kyle sign, seal, execute, publish, pronounce and declare the
within and foregoing instrument of writing as and for his last Will &
Testament and that they the said William McCormick & Edie Stewart did sign
their names thereto as witness in presence of each other and in the presence
of the Testator, and at his instance and request and that the said Testator
was at the time of sound and disposing mind memory and understanding to the
best of their knowledge and belief.
/s/ William McCormick
Edie Stewart
Sworn and subscribed the 23rd of Aug. 1827
/s/ D. N. Porter, Reg.
Jane Kyle, George Buchanan and Samuel Duncan, Executor of the Last Will and
Testament of Samuel Kyle, Esq. Dec'd.
Memorandum:
Letters Testamentary were this day granted to Jane Kyle, George
Buchanan and Samuel Duncan, Executor of the last Will & Testament of Samuel
Kyle late of Tyrone Township, Esq. Dec'd. Inventory to be exhibited within
one month and a just and true account calculation and reckoning of their said
Administration within one year.
Given under seal of office 23rd Aug. 1827.
/s/ D. N. Porter, Regtr.
Additional Comments:
Although the Will gives his wife's name as Jennet or Jenet, she is referred to
as Jane in the following Memorandum.
and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania being some what indisposed in body but of
sound and perfect mind and memory and knowing the uncertainty of life and that
it is appointed for all living once to die and in order to promise peace and
unanimity amongst those concerned and for One _____ easy and ready settling
and disposing of that portion of the ____ things in which it hath pleased the
Lord to bestow upon me in this lifes (In primis) _____ resign my immortal and
never dying soul to him from whom I received it who is God of Gods and Lord of
Lords and my mortal body to the earth from whence came to be interred in a
Christian like manner in full belief that it shall rise again at that rat and
general day when all shall hence forth that God may judge them. Item first I
order that all my just and lawful debts be first punctually paid. I together
with the cost and agencies accruing from my funeral out of my personal
estate. Item second I leave and bequeath to my well beloved wife Jennet Kyle
the use and benefit of the old end of the dwelling house both above and below
during her natural life with one half of the garden and part of the spring
house for her milk and I also bequeath to my said wife two of her choice of my
beds and bedsteads and clothes fitting for the same and I bequeath to her the
half of what grain that would come to me yearly from the Tenant of wheat rye
corn buckwheat and oats and ten bushel of potatoes yearly and also fifteen
dollars in cash yearly during her natural life and she is to have the Bay
horse known by the name of Charley and the Bald mare's colt and her choice of
two of the milk cows and her choice of two of the milk cows and her choice of
six sheep out of the flock and my said wife is to have a sufficiency of
pastuer in the summer for horses cowes and sheep and also a sufficience of hay
of the farm yearly for them in the winter and stable for horse and cows in the
winter and my said wife is to have half in bushel of flexen sowed for her
yearly on the farm and to be put in for her in good _____ & in good order and
she is to hae use of the clock and carpets in the house during her life and I
leave her fifty dollars of the Huntingdon Bank stock with interest on the same
until paid and she is also have the large copper cattle (kettle?) and tubs and
kitchen furniture as much as she thinks necessary for her to keep during her
life and her saddle and to a sufficient quantity of firewood cut and halled to
her early during her life, and to Susana Campbell during the time of her
Indenture and my said wife is to have six of her choice of the chairs in the
house and she is to have also the woolen and linen yarn and cloth and the wool
of the flock of sheep this spring if not _______ my decease. 3rd I leave and
bequeath to Nance Haggarty one white cow known by the name of her cow and I
leave also to her six sheep if there are so many of her mark alive. 4th I
leave and bequeath to Samuel Edie Kyle Duncan the sum of two hundred dollars
lawful money of the United States to be aid to his guardian for the use of the
said Samuel Edie Kyle Duncan four years after my decease and I leave to the
said Samuel Edie Kyle Duncan my watch. 5th I leave and bequeath to my dutiful
daughter Nancy Buchanan for the use and benefit of her legal heirs the one
half of the remaining part of my real and personal property after the
aforesaid bequest and legacies are fully satisfied and paid. I leave my said
daughter Nancy the one half of the remainder of the Huntingdon Bank stock
belonging to me after what is already bequeathed also the half of my part of
the Indiana and Cambria Turnpike stock and the one half of a tract of land in
Indiana County to her and to her legal heirs forever and also the half of what
money is due by James Richards of Armstrong County or otherwise if not paid by
said Richards the half of said tract purchased by him from me and I also
bequeath to my said daughter Nancy Buchanan the one half my land in Sinking
Valley after the decease of my beloved wife, to her and her heirs forever.
6th, I leave and bequeath to my dutiful daughter Margaret Kyle alias Margaret
Duncan for the use and benefit of her legal heirs the one half of my estate
real and personal in equal proportion with my daughter Nancy after the
forementioned legacies are fully paid or satisfied that is the half of the
remainder of the Huntingdon Bank stock after the first bequest out of are
fully paid the half of my part of the Indiana and Cambria turnpike stock and
the half of a tract of land in Indiana County to her and her legal heir
forever and also the half of what money is due by James Richards for a tract
of land bought by said Richards from me lying in Armstrong County and in case
said James Richards are not able to pay for said tract of land, I leave and
bequeath the half of said tract to my said daughter Margaret Duncan to her and
her heirs forever and I bequeath the half of my estate in Sinking Valley after
the decease of my beloved wife Jenet Kyle to Margaret Duncan and her heir
forever. I do hereby bequeath and leave to my wife and executors my library
of books to be amicably those of a religious nature then those on Arithmatick,
Mathematics of the Law to be divided between George Buchanan and Samuel
Duncan. And I do hereby constitute make and ordain Jennet Kyle Executrix and
George Buchanan and Samuel Duncan my sole Executors of this my last Will and
Testament and I do authorize those my said Executors of make sale of any of my
Back lands or any part of said back lands sold by me for my said Executors to
make a deed or deeds of Conveyance for the same as available in law or equity
as if I myself were personally present to the said purchaser or purchasers.
And I do hereby utterly disallow revoke disannul all and every other and
former will Testament Will legacies bequests and Executor by me or any before
named Willed and bequeathed satisfying and confirming this and no other to be
last Will & Testament. I witnof whereof I have thereunto set my hand and seal
this sixteenth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred twenty seven 1827.
/s/ Samuel Kyle
Signed, sealed. Pronounced & declared by the said Samuel Kyle in presence of
us William McCormick, Edie Stewart.
Huntingdon County:
Before me the subscriber Register for the probate of Wills & granting Letters
of Administration in and for the County of Huntingdon personally appeared
William McCormick and Edie Stewart who being sworn according to law, depose
and say that they were personally present and did see and hear the within
named Samuel Kyle sign, seal, execute, publish, pronounce and declare the
within and foregoing instrument of writing as and for his last Will &
Testament and that they the said William McCormick & Edie Stewart did sign
their names thereto as witness in presence of each other and in the presence
of the Testator, and at his instance and request and that the said Testator
was at the time of sound and disposing mind memory and understanding to the
best of their knowledge and belief.
/s/ William McCormick
Edie Stewart
Sworn and subscribed the 23rd of Aug. 1827
/s/ D. N. Porter, Reg.
Jane Kyle, George Buchanan and Samuel Duncan, Executor of the Last Will and
Testament of Samuel Kyle, Esq. Dec'd.
Memorandum:
Letters Testamentary were this day granted to Jane Kyle, George
Buchanan and Samuel Duncan, Executor of the last Will & Testament of Samuel
Kyle late of Tyrone Township, Esq. Dec'd. Inventory to be exhibited within
one month and a just and true account calculation and reckoning of their said
Administration within one year.
Given under seal of office 23rd Aug. 1827.
/s/ D. N. Porter, Regtr.
Additional Comments:
Although the Will gives his wife's name as Jennet or Jenet, she is referred to
as Jane in the following Memorandum.