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Will of Newton Harvey of Armenia Township

Last Will and Testament of I Newton W. Harvey, late of the Township of Fox, in the County of Sullivan and State of Pennsylvania, and now of Canton in the County of Bradford, and state aforesaid, being weak in body, but of sound mind and memory, and viewing the uncertainly of all human events in this mortel life do now make and ordain this my last will and testament in manner and form as follows, viz. I now own fifty acres of land which I situated in Armenia Township in Bradford County, Pennsylvania. Which I purchased some thirty five or forty years ago since and secured a deed for the same from the Estate of Henry Drinker deed long since which I ordend to be made to my wife Ann Harvey, now deceased and it is my will that the same shall be equally divided between my five daughters, Hepsubeth Button, Ann Soper, Bulah Avery, Jane A. Rumsey, and Sarah Moore, and I further direct that my five daughters pay from their several shares as mention, to my grand daughter Ida Saye, the sum of one dollar in addition to monetes which paid her mother Antoinette Saye before decease. I have now in my own right notes and obigations to the amount of about three hundred dollars and I direct that from the avails of the same, all my just debts, doctors bills, and funeral expenses be fully paid, and that my sons Nathaniel Harvey, Marcus Harvey, Isaac Harvey, Titus Harvey, Daruis Harvey, and the heirs of James Harvey deceased, be paid the sum of one dollar cash in addition to money which I have heretofore paid and loaned to them, and the balance I direct to be equally divided between my daughters Ann Soper, Bulah Avery, Jane A. Rumsey, Sarah Moore, and further I do hereby appoint my two sons in laws Moses Soper and Nelson A. Rumsey, to my executors to this my last Will and Testamentory and enpower them to do and settle my matters, after my decease and make any conveyance with all the legal rights of which I now possessed. In witness where of I have here to set my hand, affixed my seal, this twenty first day of December and one thousand eight hundred and sixty seven.

Probate made 3 Febrary 1868 (Will transcribed and sent to SRGP by Clarence Woodard)