Will of Francis Yarnall


Willistown Township
Chester County, Pennsylvania
Will # 131

  The third day of the fourth month 1721

     In the name of the Lord I Francis Yarnall of Willis town in the
County of Chester doe make this my  Last will and testament being week
[sic] of body but of Sound and perfitt memmorry praised be the Lord for
it as foloeth  viz
     I bequeth my Soule to the allmyty God and my body to be buried
     In desent manor as my Execetrix Shall See fitt; in the next place
my diseir is that all my    Just Debts shall be paid and Discharged with
my funerall expences - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Item I give unto my Eldist Son John by Compitation one hundred and fifty acers of land that
    was part of Thomas Brasies tract of land which my son doth now live one with all his
    Improvements coming to the Runn that doth rise in Petor Thomas�s land be the Same
    more or less to him his heirs and assignes- - -

Item I give to my Son Amos his heirs and assignes the remaindor part of the above said tract
    with the improvements  the above said Runn being the devishon betwixt my son John
    and my son Amos being  by computation one hundred and twenty four acres of land and
    my son Amos to have the horse mare and two year auld Coult that he calls his he paying
    to my Execetrix 10 pounds in one years time after my desese -  -  - -  -  -  -  -  - -- --

Item I give to my Son Joseph all that tract of land lying and being in Springfield to him his
    heirs and assignes Containing one hundred and twenty acers and three quarters of an acer
    with all the improvements allsoe  one horse 4 year auld and mare and one year auld foult
    and one Cow which he calls his my Son Joseph paying to my daughter Sara the Sum of
    thirty pounds that is ten pounds per year the first payment to be paid one year after my
    decese the second two and the third three year - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Item more I give to my Daughter Sarah two Cows and one mare that she hath at Springfield
    with the.Goodes she has there and the sum of twenty pounds to be paid her by my
    Execetrix to be after named - - -

Item I give to my Son Mordica if he doth live to the age of one and twenty year one hundred
    acers of Land with the medowing that is in the upper bottom and the Cleared land the
    hundred acers to be laid out by the derection of my two sons Peter and Francis my son
    Mordica helping and assisting his mother [till] he atains to the aforesaid age. - - - -

Item I give to my son Daniell the Sum of Sixty pounds if he doth live to the age of twenty
    one years and work for his mother my Execetrix dureing that time till he doth atain the
    above said age to be paid by my Execetrix: and my two sons Daniell and Mordica to have
    that [money??] and her Increse Ecually devided betwixt them when my son Daniell doth
    Come to the above said age - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Item as for my two sons Peter and Francis I have Given them their Share all Redey and
    Conveyed it to them by deedes of gift - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Item I make my dear and Loveing wife my whole and Sole Execetrix and to have this place
    I now live on and the Remainder of the land I have not dissposed of till my son Amos
    doth ataine to the age of one and twenty years and then my son Amos to enter on the one
    half of the Riall Estate that is aloted to be in my wifes poseshon and my wife to hould the
    other half dureing her naterl life and then my son Amos to have the other half of the last
    named Reall Estate, and my son Amos to have the mare and her three Coults which he
    calls his owne.

Item allsoe I give unto my loveing wife all my househould goodes and Catles* and all my
    personal Estate that is not above disposed of - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Item If my Son Mordica should dye before he doth Come to age my will is that my son
    Daniell shall have [sil?] land that I have apynted for Mordica and my wife to have that
    sixty pound that Daniell is to have [at her?] dissposing It is my will that these above
    artycles may be fullfild as witness my hand and seal. What land I have given to my sons
    is to them their Heirs and Assigns

     Signed Sealed and delivered {                 F R A N C I S   Y A R N A L L
     In the Presence of us       {                  his mark
 .......George  G   Smedley                 COPY OF WILL OF FRANCIS YARNALL OF
 .......Philip Yarnall                            WILLISTOWN, CHESTER COUNTY, PA.,
........Philip Yarnall                            PROVEN 6 MO (AUGUST) 1721.
........Sarah Smedley               RECORDED AT WEST CHESTER, PA., IN WILL BOOK

Copied by Mary Card Yarnell 21 May 1994 with particular attention to reproducing original spelling.


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