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Will of GEORGE KELLY - Donated by Margaret Gagliardi
Butler County, Pennsylvania
Will Book A, Pages 279-280
Dated 24 June 1833, Recorded 10 January1834
Will of GEORGE KELLY
In the name of God amen, I GEORGE KELLY Senior of Cranberry township Butler County & State of Pennsylvania being of good health of body and of sound and disposing mind and memory Praised be god for the same, And being desireous to settle my worldly affairs whilst I have strength and capacity so to do make and publish this my Last Will and testament hereby Revoking and making void all former wills by me at any time heretofore made and first and principally I commit my Soul into the hands of my creator who give it. And my body to the earth to be interred at the discretion of my executors hereinafter named and as to such worldly estate whose with it hath Pleased God to entrust me I dispose of the same as follows Imprimis I Bequeath unto my loving with SARA my Real and personal Property if she survives me during her natural life and then to the disposed in the following order Viz. Imprimis I Bequeath to my eldest son JONATHAN one Dollar, Imprimis I bequeath to my son WILLIAM one Dollar, Imprimis I Bequeath to my son JOSEPH one Dollar Imprimis I Bequeath to my son GEORGE one Dollar, Imprimis I Bequeath to my eldest Daughter MARGARET GORDON one Dollar Imprimis I Bequeath to my second daughter NANCY one Dollar Imprimis I Bequeath to Daughter ELIZABETH Thirty Dollars Imprimis I Bequeath to my daughter AMY's oldest child if ever she has one that may come the years of maturity if not to fall to the old estate and her during her natural life to get the profits arising from the following Described part with the addition of one Dollar which I leave to herself that is to say one hundred acres of land where she now lives on and eighty acres ajoining the same to be conducted as above mentioned Imprimis I Bequeath to my Daughter CHARITY eighty acres of land adjoining the widow BURRIS? formerly Imprimis I Bequeath to my grandson GEORGE CHAMPION one horse sadle and Bridle worth sixty Dollars Imprimis after all just Debts and Demands are satisfied I Bequeath the remnent of any moveable affects to my Daughters AMY/ANY and CHARITY to be Divided Share and Share alike between the two and I do affirm to my faithful friends JOHN HENRY and JOHN NEELY Esq of & to be my Executors In Witness whereof I set my hand this 24th Day of June AD 1833.
Attest JAMES BUCKLEY, SAMUEL NEELY GEORGE (x) KELLY SR.
Butler Co SS:
Personally appeared before __ __ __ for the probate of Will & Granting Letters of Administration in and for said county SAMUEL NEELY & JAMES BUCKLEY two of the Witnesses to the Last Will & Testament of GEORGE KELLY who on their Solemn oaths doth swear that the aforesaid Statement of the last Will & Testament of GEORGE KELLY deceased is herein to the best of their knowledge and belief & that he was of sound mind and memory when he made his last will and Testament in his presence & at his request subscribed their names as Witnesseth swore & subscribed this 10th day of Jan1834.
SAMUEL NEELY &
JAMES BUCKLEY