General Notes

LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF FRANCES PUTTEE HAYS IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN.

The fourth Day of September one thousand Eight Hundred & Nine- I, FRANCES HAYS of The township of Mifflin and County of Allegheny & Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Being frail and weak in Body but of Perfect mind memory thanks be to God therefor Calling to mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed for all of the human Race once to die Do make and Ordain this my Will and Testament That is to say first of all I Give & Recommend my soul to God that gave it & my body to the Earth to be Buried in a Decent Christian Manner at the Discretion of my Executors Nothing Doubting but at the General Resurrection I shall Receive the same again by the Mighty Power of God and as touching such Worldly Estate Wherewith it hath been pleased God to Bless me in this life I Give Demise and Dispose of the same in the following Manner and form

Imprimis I Give and Bequeath unto my son Frank A Clear and full discharge of Note I have against him for four Dollars, Also a Clear Discharge of all book accounts Whatever that I have against him provided he does not produce any account against my Estate but if he should produce an account I do allow my Executors to settle with him all that I have against him and I should fall in his Debt to pay it out of my estate but if he should fall in my Debt I Give him a clear Discharge and one Dollar as a legacy to be paid out of my estate-
Item I Give and Bequeath unto my son Isaac Hays the sum of fifty Dollars to be paid out of my Estate
Item I Give & Bequeath unto my son Abraham Hays the sum of forty Dollar to be paid to him by my Daughter Sarah Harden out of the Legacy I shall leave her-
Item I Give and Bequeath unto my son John Hays one feather bed that one that is Generally in the Kitchen with its furniture-
Item I Give & Bequeath unto my son Jacob Hays one Dollar to be paid out of my Estate by my Executors-
Item I Give & Bequeath unto My Daughter Sarah Hardin all my Household Furniture of every Description
Together with all my Beasts Consisting of one Mare & Colt and one horse & A Cow and Calf with all the sheep & hogs and every thing or things that I might or could claim on the premises where I now Live she paying all my Just Debts and A Legacy to my son Abraham Hays of forty Dollars and farther if there should be any money Left after all my Just Debts are paid and all the Legacies paid of I Will and Bequeath unto my Daughter Sarah Hardin-
Item I Give and Bequeath unto my Daughter Marthew Heirs one Dollar Each-
Item I Give & Bequeath unto my son Thomas Hays one Dollar to be paid to him out of my Estate by my Executors- & furthermore I Do Constitute Make and Ordain my trusty friend Abraham Hays & James Hardin Executors of this my Last Will & Testament and I Do Utterly Revoke and disannul all and Every other Testaments Wills Legacies and Bequests and Executors by Me in any Way Named Willed and Bequeathed Ratifying and Confirming this & None Other to be my Last Will and Testament.

In Witness Whereof I have Hereunto set my hand and seal the Day and year above Mentioned.
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FRANCES X HAYS. (SEAL)
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Signed & Sealed as the last Will & Testament of Frances Hays in presence of us.
ABRAHAM WHITAKER
AARON WHITAKER

STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA ALLEGHENY COUNTY, S.S.
I, Geo. H. Stengel, Register of Wills, etc., in and for said County, do hereby certify the foregoing to be a full and perfect copy of the Original last Will and Testament of Frances Hays, Deceased, as the same remains on file, and is of record in my office at Pittsburgh, in Will Book, Volume 2, page 131. Will probated March 11, 1818.

Witness my hand and seal of said office, this 16th day of March, A. D. 1904.
Geo. H. Stengel
Register
[1809]