The Miller and Davis Families: Record of the Descendants of Peter Miller and Catherine Sheeler and Thomas Davis and Rebecca Tribby

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1948 - 166 pages
 

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Page 67 - Sound mind and memory, do make, publish and declare, this my last will and testament, in manner following, that is to say...
Page 28 - Executor of this my last Will and Testament hereby authorizing and empowering him to compromise adjust release and discharge in such manner as he may deem proper the debts and claims due me.
Page 28 - I give and devise to my beloved wife, in lieu of her •dower, the farm on which we now reside, situate in , $•<:., containing about acres, during her natural life; and all the stock, household goods, furniture, provisions, and other goods and chattels, which may be thereon, at the time of my decease, during her natural life as aforesaid; she, however, selling so much thereof as may be sufficient to pay my just debts.
Page 67 - Third : I hereby make, constitute and appoint my friends John Herman Mahnken, Charles E., Annett and Horace Roberson executors of this my last will and testament, hereby revoking all other wills by me made.
Page 67 - God for the same do make and publish this my last will and testament in manner and form following (that is to say...
Page 14 - Signed, sealed, published and declared as and for the last will and testament of the above named Joseph Riley, Senior, in the presence of us: JOHN B.
Page 28 - I do also authorize and empower him if it shall become necessary in order to pay my debts to sell by private sale or in such manner upon such terms of credit or otherwise as he may think proper all or any part of my real estate and deeds to purchasers to execute acknowledge and deliver in fee simple.
Page 14 - All the rest of my estate both real and personal, of what nature or kind soever it may be, not herein before particularly disposed of, I desire may be equally divided among my several children herein before named, which I give to them, their heirs and assigns forever.
Page 28 - At the death of my said wife the real estate aforesaid I give and devise to my two sons Joseph P.
Page 20 - ... eal of politeness, finding them to be Jersey people who where possessed of knolage and good sense. His wife was busily engaged in packing up marketing to load a waggon which was agoing to start the next morning to Cincinnati and said that they maid something like $300.00 a year in that way, allthough 45 miles from market, which proves to me that none are so far from market as those who have nothing to sell.

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