Archive:Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, Probate Records
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Jonathan Whitney’s Will
In the name of God, amen, I Jonathan Whitney of the township of Windham County of Luzerne & state of Pennsylvania being weak & low of body but of perfect mind do make and administer my last will & testament, in manner following viz. First I give to my beloved wife Olive Whitney all and singular my goods and chattels rights and credits including my whole personal property except as hereinafter excepted and also all my lands & tenements of which I may be possessed at the time of my decease exceptions as above, I give to my oldest son Ransom Whitney sixty seven cents to be deducted out of a note I hold against him, I give to Charles Whitney my second son the sum of sixty seven cents to be paid to my executor or executrix as case maybe, I give to the heirs of Asa Whitney decd the sum of sixty seven cents to be paid as above to my three young sons vizs, Walter, Frank, and Horace Whitney, I give the like sum of sixty seven cents and to be paid as above to the heirs of my eldest daughter Martha late Martha Lake dec’d, I give the like sum of sixty seven cents to be paid as above. I give to my second daughter Lucina now Lucina McKee the sum of one hundred dollars to be paid as above and lastly I give unto my wife Olive Whitney (or will that ______ _________) so much of my property as shall be sufficient to pay my debts & also to pay the above legacies and the expenses of settling the same after my dec whom I do hereby nominate sole executrix of this my last will and testament. In testimony where I have hereunto set my hand & seal this twentieth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty one.
Signed and sealed in Presence of Asa Stevens Elizer Lake
- Jonathan Whitney (X) his mark
- Two words intertwined & an erasure before
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- Two words intertwined & an erasure before
On the twenty fifth day April Anno Domini eighteen hundred and thirty two before me Isaac Bowman Register of Wills in and for the county of Luzerne personally came Asa Stevens and Elizer Lake two of the subscribing witnesses to the foregoing will and being duly sworn according to law did depose and __ say that their names to the forgoing will subscribed as witnesses is of their own proper hand writing respectively, that they were present and saw Jonathan Whitney the testator therein named sign his name to the same and heard him publish pronounce and declare the foregoing instrument of writing as and for his last will and testament, and at the time of so doing the said testator was of sound mind memory and disposing understanding to the best of their knowledge belief and observation, and that they signed the same as witnesses and at the request of the testator and in the presence of each other.
Registered April 25th 1832
- Isaac Bowman Regt.
In conformity to the foregoing will and the probate there of Letters testamentary were granted to Olive Whitney Executrix therein named & she having first been sworn to administer the goods and chattels rights and credits of the said testator and make a true and perfect inventory thereof and Exhibit the same into the Registers Office in one month and to render a just and true account calculation and reckoning her whole administration in one year according to law.
Given under the seal of the Register Office at Wilkes Barre, this twenty fifth day of April Anno Domini 1832.
Isaac Bowman, Register
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