Will of Liverton Thomas
The following transcription was submitted by Linda
Munn Persinger of of Eldon, MO for inclusion at the Genealogy
in Washington Co., PA web site in January 2000.
Linda writes:
This is a transcription of the will of Liverton Thomas who was born about 1740
and died Feburary 25, 1814. The will was made in 1805 and probated in 1814.
In the name of God Amen I Liverton Thomas of
Nottingham Township in the County of Washington and the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania. Being of perfect mind and memory and calling to mind the
mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to
die do make and ordain this my last will and testament and first of all I
commend my soul into the hands of Almighty God who gave it and my
body to the earth to be buried in decent Christian burial at the descretion
of my executors, nothing doubting but I shall recieve the same again by the
mighty power of God at the general Resurrection and as touching such worldly
estate as it hath pleased God to bless one with in this life, I give and
demise and dispose of the same in the following manner and formalize, I give
and bequeath unto Mary my dearly and well beloved wife all her wearing
apperal her bed and bedding one horse and saddle and bridle valued at eighty
dollars and sixty seven cents Two milk cows three ewes one breeding sow
Twenty six dollars worth of kitchen furniture my house and garden and the
small yard about the house with a sufficent quanity of fire wood cut and
haled to her door to keep one fire yearly and every year by my heirs jointly
and equally likewise I give and bequeath to her my said wife Mary the one
third of the rent of my plantation as it now is improved and a part of the
barn for her hay and grain and stabling for her horseand two cows such
(part is missing here) that is now -----for young cattle all while she
remains my widow but in case she should change her life and marry then and
in that case she must leave the house and quit claim to all the
benefits arrising from my real estate but while she remains my widow her hay
and small grain is to be put in the barn and her thirds of the ---- or such
a part thereof as she thinks proper to be made into Sider and delivered at
her house, Second it is my wish that all my debts and funeral expences be
paid likewise I give and bequeath to my son Joseph Thomas forty dollars I
give and bequeath to my son William Thomas the sum of forth dollars I give
and bequeath to my daughter Ann the sum of twenty dollars to be paid
for there boarding and schooling out of the money arrising from the sale of
my movable property I give and bequeath to my daughter Ann five sheep and
three lambs which was bequeathed to her by her grandmother Likewise I give
and bequeath to my daughter Rebecca Lockwood the sum of forty one pounds to
be paid twenty one months after my deceas Likewise I give and bequeath to my
daughter Mary Cowell the sum of seventy pounds to be paid out of the
rent arrising yearly out of my plantation Likewise I give and bequeath to my
other eight children Edmond, Michael, Liverton, Jonathan, Joseph, William,
Lydia and Ann my real estate to be equally devided among them the said eight
children at the deceas of their mother a deduction to be made out of Michael's
share of the eighty dollars that he hath ---------------------- My wearing
apperal to be devided amongst my children at the discretion of my wife.
It is my will and I do order that my son Edmond shall dung and plow his
mothers garden during her life and if wife Mary should change her life and
marry and by any misconduct or bad fortune come to want then and in
that case it is my will and I do order that there be sufficient
support gotten to her out of my plantation during her life at the discretion
of my executors. And I do likewise constitute make and ordain James Mitchell
Esq. and Edmond Thomas the sole executors of this my last will and testament
and I do here by utterly disallow revock and disallow all and any former
testement wills and ----this and no other to be my last Will and testament,
-----I have hereunto set my hand and seal this eighth day of May in the year
one thousand eight hundred and five signed sealed and published pronounced
and declaired by the said Liverton Thomas as his last Will and testament.
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