Person:Peter Black (2)

Washington Co PA, xxxx Book ? pg ?

February 19 1808

Will of Peter Black, dec'd § In the name of God Amen. I, Peter Black of

Buffaloe Township in the County of Washington Commonwealth of

Penslyvania, being weak of body, [but] of sound mind and perfet memory

and Judgment knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die, do

make and establish this my last will and testament, and first I recommend

my Soul to Almighty God who gave it and my body I recommend to the earth

to be burried in a decent manner at the discreation of my executor here

after mentioned ?as tacking such wordly estate as hath pleased God to

bless me in this life, I give and dispose of in the manner and form

following and first after paying all my just debts, I order and allow all

my personal property and real estate to be sold? and ecualy divided among

my children viz. Elizabeth Masters, Samuel Black, James Black, John

Black, Peter Black, David Black, Moses Black, Aaron Black, Sarrah Black,

Kittron Black, Solloman Black, Joseph Black, and I constitute and appoint

my friends John McMullen and Martin Horn to execute this my will and

testament revoking all other wills or testaments by me made and

accknowledging this and no other to be my last will and testament. In

witness thereof I have set to my hand seal this tweth day of February in

the year of our Lord 1808.

N.B. (<-?) I allow sixty dollars to be given unto Solloman and Joseph and

ten dollars to Sarrah and Ketterin and thirty dollars to Moses and Aaron

and the two colts which they now claim all these sums to be taken before

the estate be divided and the land to be rented for one year and to be

sold in that time at the discretion of my executors here aforenamed. The

above notation is made before signed as witness my hand and seal this

twelth day of February Anno Domini 1808. his Peter X Black mark

{seal}

Witness present Thomas Brownlee, Jacob Horn, Robt Thompson

Washington County § Be it remembered that on the nineteenth day of

February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eight,

before me Isaac Kerr, Register for the probate of Wills and granting

Letters of Administration in and for said county came Thomas Brownlee,

Jacob Horn and Robert Thompson, the subscribing witnesses to the

aforegoing last will and testament of Peter Black, late of the county

aforesaid, deceased, who being duly sworn as the law directs, do depose

and say that they were personally present and the said Thomas and Jacob

saw the Testator therein named execute this will and that they and the

said Robert, heard him publish, pronounce and declare the same to be his

last will and testament. That at the time of his so doing he was to the

best of their apprehensions of sound and disposing mind, memory, and

understanding, and that they respectively subscribed their names as

witnesses to this will in the presence and at the request of the testator

and the said Thomas and Jacob in the presence of each other and the said

Robert in their presence. Thomas Brownle Jacob Horn Robt Thompson

Sworn to and subscribed before me, Isaac Kerr Register February 19 1808.

Letters Testamentary with copy of will and probate annexed, issued to

John McMullon and Martin Horn, the executors within named, who on same

day were sworn. Isaac Kerr, Register

Registered and compared with original, the 19th February A.D. 1808. Isaac

Kerr