--0__=8MpKzpAFscVcsyCSAYuNuFK539mYjMXWuosQG4qzx5E46ODjdjL0J2SC Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Huntingdon County, PA Orphans Court --0__=8MpKzpAFscVcsyCSAYuNuFK539mYjMXWuosQG4qzx5E46ODjdjL0J2SC Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable ?E? November Term 1841 page 291 No. 45. The petition of John Steel, one of the sons and heirs of Jonas = Steel, late of the County of Huntingdon, but who died in Munroe County in the = State of Ohio, was read setting forth: that the said Jonas Steel died intestate = about seventeen or eighteen years ago leaving a widow, Mary Steel of the said= County of Munroe in the State of Ohio, and nine children to wit: Polly who is intermarried with John Weston, deceased, who is now dead, leaving six c= hildren, to wit: William Weston, George Weston, John Weston, Samuel Weston, resi= ding in Huntingdon County, aforesaid, Margaret Weston residing in Mifflin Count= y in the state of Pennsylvania, and Polly Weston who is said to reside in the St= ate of Kentucky, Samuel Steel who resides in Huntingdon County aforesaid, John= Steel, the petitioner, of the last said County, Christopher Steel, Henry Steel= , Susana Steel whose husbands name (if she has one) is unknown to the Petitioner= , Eve Steel, Sarah Steel, and Margaret Steel whose husband?s names if they ar= e married, are unknown to the Petitioner, all of whom are supposed to res= ide in the said County of Munroe in the State of Ohio, that the said intestate= died seized in fee simple of Page 292 And in a piece or parcel of land situate in West township Huntingdon Co= unty aforesaid, adjoining lands of John Silknitter, John Wolfkill, a piece o= f land containing about ten acres, sold by a written agreement, to the Petitio= ner or by the said intestate in his lifetime, in pursuance of which he tool posse= ssion there of and occupies the same and by lands of others, containing about= ninety acres more or less of which about twelve are cleared. (a diagram of whi= ch is annexed) and praying the court to award an inquest to make partition o= r valuation of the premises aforesaid. Where upon 8th of November 1841. T= he Court awarded an inquest according to the prayer of the Petitioner, and order= ed that notice of the time of making such partition or valuation be given to a= ll persons interested, residing in the County, personally or by writing le= ft at their places of abode at least ten days before the day appointed theref= or, that to those residing out of the County notice be given by advertisement in= one newspaper published in the County, at least three weeks before the day = appointed for holding the said inquest, to be directed weekly to the last known p= laces of residence of such heirs respectively, and that return of the proceeding= s herein to be made at the next general Orphan?s Court. {iss.} Orphans Court ?E? January Term 1842 page 342 No. 143. The return of the inquisition taken on the real estate of Jona= s Steel was read as follows: Inquisition indented and taken at and upon the lan= d of Jonas Steel formerly of the County of Huntingdon in the State of Pennsy= lvania deceased, mentioned and described in the annexed wit on Thursday the si= xteenth day of December in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and forty one,= before john Shaver Esquire high Sheriff of the County of Huntingdon aforesaid = by virtue of a writ of partitions a valuation to him directed, and to this inquis= ition annexed by the oaths and affirmations of Adam Warfel, George Miller, Ab= raham Evans, Benjamin Corbin, John Decker, Abel Corbin, Samuel Peightal, Geor= ge Hawn, Peter Decker, Joseph Camp, John Silknitter and Abraham Grub twelve free= , honest and lawful men of his ??? who on their oaths and affirmations aforesaid= respectively do say that on the day and year aforesaid they went to and= upon the lands and tenements of which Jonas Steel in the said writ mentioned die= d seized and then and there did find that the same lands and tenements could not= be parted and divided to and among the children and representatives of the= said intestate in said writ named without prejudice to or spoiling the whol= e thereof and therefore the said inquest aforesaid on there oaths and affirmation= s aforesaid have valued and appraised the same at the sum of one hundred = and ninety one dollars lawful money of the United States at and for which s= um the inquest aforesaid on their Page 343 Oaths and affirmations aforesaid do value and appraise the same In Test= imony whereof as well the said Sheriff as the inquest aforesaid have to this inquisition interchangeably set their hands. Dated the day and year abo= ve written. John Shaver Sheriff George Hawn Peter Decker Benjamin Corbin Adam Warfel Samuel Peightal Joseph Kemp George Miller Abraham Evans Abraham Grubb Abel Corbin John Decker John Silknitter Whereupon 19th January 1842. It is considered by the court and ordered = that the valuations so as aforesaid made be confirmed and on motion of W. P. Orb= ison Esq the Court granted a rule on all persons interested in the real estate o= f the said deceased, to appear in court on the first day of next term to acce= pt or refuse the real estate of the said deceased at the valuation, and that = notice be given to all persons interested personally or by writing left at their = places of abode at least ten days before the said first day of next term. Orphans Court ?E? April Term 1842 Page 366 No. 192. 16th of April 1842. In the matter of the Rule of this Court gr= anted at last term on the heirs and legal representatives of Jonas Steel decease= d Page 367 to appear at the present term to accept or refuse the real estate of th= e said deceased at the valuation thereof, it having appeared to the Court that= the said Rule had not been duly served, on motion of W. P. Orbison Esq the Court= granted an alias rule on the said heirs and representatives, returnable on the = first day of August term next. {iss.} Orphans Court ?E? August Term 1842 Page 391 No. 250. Proof being made of the due service of the alias Rule of this = Court awarded at April term last on the heirs and legal representatives of Jo= nas Steel, late of the County of Huntingdon, deceased, who intestate to app= ear in Court at the present term, to accept or refuse the real estate of the s= aid intestate at the valuation thereof. Daniel Africa Esq vendee of Samuel = Steel eldest son of the said deceased, came into the Court and agreed to acce= pt the real estate of the said intestate at the valuation thereof: Whereupon 1= 9th August 1842 the Court decreed the same to him, the said Daniel Africa e= squire vendee as aforesaid, his heirs and assigned forever, as fully and freel= y as the said intestate had and held the same at the time of his decease, agree= ably at the Acts of the General Assembly in such case made and provided, on his= paying, or entering into recognizance with one or more sufficient sureties to p= ay to the widow of the said intestate annually and regularly during her natural l= ife the legal interest of the sum at which her share of the said real estate ha= s been valued, and to pay to the other heirs and legal representatives of the= said intestate their respective shares or portions of the said valuation wit= hin one year from the date hereof with the interest: and James Simpson and John= Simpson of the borough of Huntingdon, being offered as surety is approved by th= e Court. Valuation of said real estate $191.00 Fees of Attorneys Bell V. Orbison $16.16 Fees of Sheriff Shaver with rule Fees of Clerk Reed 4.81 1/4 paid John Reed Clerk Fees of Surveyor Simpson = --0__=8MpKzpAFscVcsyCSAYuNuFK539mYjMXWuosQG4qzx5E46ODjdjL0J2SC--