(Redirected by "DC & Alice Allen" <dcaallen@pacifier.com>) >From the Message Board: *********** BEGIN REDIRECTED MESSAGE *********** This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Skeels Tabor Scott Classification: Will Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BYB.2ACE/351 Message Board Post: I Silas Skeels of the county of Seneca in the state of Ohio do make and publish this my last will and testament in manner from following (?) that is to say. First I give and devise to my oldest son Nelson D. Skeels two hundred dollars. Second I give and devise to my eldest daughter Nancy Jennett Tabor one hundred and twenty five dollars. Third I give and devise to my daughter Jane Caroline Scott one hundred and twenty five dollars. Fourth I give and devise to my daughter Hepsey Skeels four hundred and fifty dollars and one ... (?) to have her choice. Fifth I give and devise to my daughter Sally Sarah two hundred and twenty five dollars. Sixth I give and devise to my daughter Samantha two hundred dollars. Seveneth I give and devise to my daughter Amelia two hundred and fifty dollars. [page 2] Ninth (?) I give and devise to my grandson Burton Skeels fourty acres of land that I own in Fulton County. Tenth it is my will that my executors sell my s...able (?) property and pay my just debts and expenses and the aforesaid sums of money and if my my s...able (?) property will not pay the aforesaid sums then the balance must be paid out of my real estate. Eleventh I give and devise the balance of my estate to my four sons Benjamin, Orace, Silas B., George P. Skeels. And lastly I do hereby nominate and appoint Benjamin Skeels and John Hall executors of this my last will and testament and do hereby revoke all former wills by me made. In testimony .... (?) I have .....(?) set my hand and seal this eighth day of October AD 1860. Signed and acknowledged. [page 3] [first lines unreadable] and testament in our presence and Silas Skeels signed by us in [signed and sealed] his presence. David W. Hall [signed] John Potes [signed] *********** END REDIRECTED MESSAGE ***********