Adams Co., PA GenWeb Project - Will of Andrew Noel
WILL OF Andrew Noel
submitted 19 May 2002and © EllisRN@aol.com

In the name of God Amen, I Andrew Noel of Menallen Township in the County of 
Adams & State of Pennsylvania, being weak in body, but of sound & perfect mind, 
memory & understanding (Blessed be God for the same), Do make & publish this my 
last Will & Testament in manner and form following, viz:

Principally & first of all, I commend my immortal soul to the Earth to be buried 
in a decent & Christian like manner, at the discretion of my Executors herein 
after mentioned, & as to such worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to 
bless me in this life, I give and dispose of the same in the following manner, 
Viz:

First, It is my Will & I order & direct that all my Just debts & funeral 
expenses shall be first paid out of my Estate, by my executors herein after 
named.

Item, I give & bequeath unto my well beloved wife Theresa Noel, the house in 
which we now live, with all & every the Rents, profits & emoluments of the Farm 
as per Articles of Agreement between me and my son Andrew Noel Junr. (a copy 
where of is in his possession & another lodged with this my will) & it is my 
construction of the void agreement, & my will that the firewood
therein mentioned shall be cut short at the door ready for the kitchen & stove 
for the use of my said wife; I also give and bequeath to my said wife one good 
bed, bedstead & bedding sufficient, the stove as it now stands in the house, the 
corner cupboard & furniture, together with such other household & kitchen 
furniture as she & my executors herein after named shall think necessary for her 
to keep house, also one Milck (sic) cow--All during her natural life, & at her 
decease to be sold by my Executors, & the surplus after payment of her funeral 
expenses to revert toItem, I give & devise to my son Andrew Noel the farm on 
which I now live, supposed to contain about three hundred & forty eight acres to 
hold to him his heirs & assigns forever, from & after the death of his mother, & 
subject in the meantime to the bequests to his said Mother & at her decease to 
the payment of seven hundred pounds in the manner mentioned in the Articles of 
Agreement herein before mentioned.

Item, I Give & Bequeath to my three sons, Jacob, John, & Nicholas Fifty Dollars 
to each and every of them.
Item, (unreadable) as touching all the rest, residue and remainder of my Estate, 
Real, Personal & mixed, of what kind & nature the same may be whosesoever found, 
I give, bequeath & devise the same unto my ten children, Viz--Jacob, Madalena 
intermarried with Thomas Noel, Margaret intermarried with George Starns, John, 
Susanna intermarried with Isaac Warren, Nicholas,
Catharine intermarried with John Lonsteter, Barbara intermarried with Frederick 
Warren, Betsy intermarried with Paul Miller, and Theresa intermarried with David 
Warren, to be divided equally amongst them, share & share alike, but with 
respect to my two daughters viz Madalena & Margaret it is my will & I order & 
direct that their shares of my estate shall be retained by my Executors, & given 
to them respectively as they may stand in need, at their discretion, & the 
balance if any, at their decease, to be divided equally among their children 
respectively. And whereas I did, sometime in the spring of the year one thousand 
eight hundred & fifteen, execute & deliver unto my son in law John Lonsteter, a 
certain instrument of writing empowering him to transact my business & etc., It 
is my will that the same be cancelled and become void and of no effect & that 
the said John Lonsteter shall account with my Executors herein after named, for 
all or any part of my Estate which he may have received, by virtue of the said 
writing. And Lastly I nominate, constitute & appoint my son in law Isaac Warren 
& my friend Alexander Russell, Esq. to be the Executors of this my will, hereby 
revoking all other wills, Legacies & bequests by me heretofore made, & declaring 
this & no other to be my last Will & Testament. In Witness whereof I have 
hereunto set my hand & seal the thirty first day of October in the years of our 
Lord one thousand eight hundred & sixteen.

Andrew Noel
Signed, sealed, published, pronounced & declared by the said Testator, as & for 
his lat Will & Testament, in presence of us, who, in his presence & at his 
request have subscribed our names as Witnesses.
Abraham Strosbaugh
John Dillon

Adams County, PA
Before me James Duncan, Esq., Register for the probate of Wills & granting 
Letters of Administration in and for the County of Adams in the State of 
Pennsylvania, personally came Abraham Strosbaugh and John Dillon the subscribing 
Witnesses to the foregoing Instrument of Writing, and on their solemn Oaths do 
severally say, that they were personally present and saw and heard the therin 
named Andrew Noel sign his name unto and seal and publish the foregoing 
Instrument of writing as and for his last Will and Testament, and at the time of 
doing thereof, he the siad Andrew Noel was of a sound and disposing mind, memory 
& understanding to the best of their knowledge and belief, and that they 
subscribed their names thereto as Witnesses in the
presence of the said Testator, and at his request, and also in the presence of 
each other at the same time.
Abraham Strosbaugh
John Dillon
Sworn & Subscribed before me at Gettysburg the 11th day of March A.D. 1817
James Duncan
Reg.