Family History Center
microfilm 0863624 “Washington
County, PA Will Book I ”
Transcribed by Billy
Markland 12/1/2000
On the Seventh day of
November One thousand seven hundred and ninety three-In the Name of God Amen.
I Thomas Scott of the Town of Washington, in the County of Washington and
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Esquire being in perfect mind and memory, and well
knowing that I shall one day die Do make and Ordain this my last will and
Testament, disposing of my Estate in manner following, that is to say, -
I will and Ordain that my
funeral Charges and just Debts be paid out of my personal Estate.
I Give, bequeath and devise to my Son Arthur one of my work horses,
either that which was A. Wood’s or that which was I. Bairds, at His Option,
together with my Smallest black good mare and half her increase and Two hundred
acres of Land with allowance for Roads &c-Including his House and Barn where
he now lives, and bounded as expressed in a General Rough draft of my purchases
from Jonth & Willm Markland made with my own hand on the
seventh day of November One thousand seven hundred and ninety three with my name
signed (thereunto?) by which Draft it will appear that the last assigned to
Arthur must be one hundred perches broad, at one hundred and forty eight perches
distant from the beginning ash on Charteers Creek, and from that point to run
South seventy two Degrees, East to Charteers Creen and North Seventy two degrees
West to the headline, that the lot is No. one on the said Draft which
above described Two hundred acres of Land and allowance.
I hereby devise to my said son Arthur and to his heirs and assigns
forever. I Give and bequeath to my
well beloved wife Jean as well all the Rents, Issues and profits of All and
singular my houses and lands not herein before devised as all and singular my
personal Estate of whatever nature or kind, for and during her natural life to
be used nevertheless with discreation<sic> and the advice of my Executors
herein after named for her own decent support, and for the support and education
of our children, and may be dealt out in proper parts by the same discreation
<sic> and advice to my unmarried Children at their several marriages, or
separation from the family, they being severally answerable in account against
their Share at a final division. And
my will and pleasure is that if any of my children be under the age of twenty
one years, and unmarried at my wifes decease provison be made, out of my Estate,
for the necessary support and reasonable education of such Child or Children
until that age or untill <sic> Marriage-And my will and pleasure is that
after the death of my wife, and the provisions and dispositions herein before
made, all the rest and residue of my Estate, Real and personal shall be
distributed by my Executors, so that my son Thomas shall have one third part
Interest in my lands on Monangohela River, now in the tenure of Obediah Peden to
him his heirs and assigns forever, and his Equal dividend with his Brother
Alexander and his young Sisters, this in case he has not got a Classical
Education, in which case this third part to be Subject to distribution and
partake Equally with his said Brother and Sisters, who to wit, Alexander,
Margaret, Mary Jean, Sarah, Rebecca and Mable shall have equal shares, and my
Daughter Elisabeth Cunningham half as much as one of them, and my daughter
Agness Woods, one forth part as much as one of them, and her children by Samuel
McGinley her former husband or the survivors of them in equal shares one
other forth part as much as one of them, and in case of the death of any of
these my Children before distribution, leaving Issue, such Issue shall take the
part of the parent. And it is
moreover my will that this distribution may be made as far as convenient in
Specific articles at reasonable valuation, Seniority Giving Right of Refusal as
well with respect to the houses and lands as Goods and Cattles.
And I constitute and Appoint Alexander Addison, James Ross and John Hoge
Esquires my Executors of this my last will and Testament hereby revoking all
other or former wills, Testaments and Executors, declaring that this only to be
my last Will and Testament the eleventh Novr 1793.
N.B.
the words (“in equal shares”) interlined in this page-
Thos Scott
Signed, Sealed, published
and declared by the said Tho. Scott as his last will and Testament, in presence
of us who in his presence have subscribed our names.
Samuel Clarke
John Clarke
Robt Clarke
Washington County Js}
On the twenty fifth day of
March 1796 personally came before me the subscriber Register for the probate of
wills and granting Letters of Administration in and for the County aforesaid
John Clarke and Robert Clarke two of the subscribing witnesses to the within
instrument of writing who being duly sworn according to law did declare and say
that they were personally present and heard and saw the within named Thomas
Scott the Testator publish
pronounce and declare the within Instrument of writing as and for his last Will
and Testament that at the time of doing thereof he the said Thomas Scott the
Testator was of sound and disposing mind memory and understanding according to
the best of these Deponents knowledge and belief and that they subscribed their
names as witnesses to the execution thereof and that they did also see Samuel
Clarke the other witness subscribe his name as a witness thereto in the presence
of the Testator and at his request.
John Clarke
Robt Clarke
Registered the 25th
day of March A.D. 1796
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