Here is the index to his estate: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G99B-J5RQ Accounts filed in 1800 and 1801. Estate file 4675. Will Book 10, p. 64. Estate papers are here: https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/159829 Click on the camera by film 1429143 and you should be able to find file 4675. File 4675 starts here: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9SM-F7TV Rick Saunders -----Original Message----- >From: Fran West-Powe <fwestpowe@gmail.com> >Sent: Apr 21, 2017 9:56 AM >To: TRANSITIONAL-GENEALOGISTS-FORUM@rootsweb.com >Subject: [TGF] Will of Joseph Powell sent with permission of admin > > >Thanks to the admin of this group! What a helpful group of people. >I need to know how to learn the names/identities of the children of John >POWEL, the son mentioned in this will of Joseph POWELL. > >Mr. Rick SAUNDERS has provided some tips, but I know not how to do those >kinds of searches. >Thanks, sincere thanks to all. > >I, Joseph Powell,of the Township of Sadsbury, County of Chester in >Pennsylvania, being in a tolerable state of health and of sound mind and >memory, but calling to mind the mortality of my body, do make and ordain >this my last will and testament in the following manner & to wit- first >I order all my just debts and expences be paid. I order & my will is >that my wife Mary, if she survive me- shall have the profits of my >Plantation during her life & live in my house & enjoy in the same part >of said house we now live in / for her support I order & my will is that >my Executor hereafter named as soon as convenient after the decease of >me and my wife , sell and convey on fee simple all my plantation estate >on a branch of Octoraro Creek in Chester County for the best price >that can be had for the same either at publick or private sale and the >money arising from the same after reasonable expenses is paid shall be >equally divided amongst all my children except the widow & children of >my son William who shall have a double share that is as much as any one >of my other children to be equally divided amongst them. I give and >decree to my son John's children all my personal estate to be equally >divided ( hard to read, I think it says "amongst them" ) after my just >( debts, expenses, all taxes as is ---) & other lawful expenses, as >well as their share arising from the sale of my plantation, except forty >pounds which I give & bequeath to my four grandchildren, Joseph >Chamberlin, Joseph Farr, Joseph Simons and Elijah Chamberlin which is to >come out of my (unreadable) . Lastly I ordain & appoint my friends James >Clemson, Sr. & Joseph Dickinson the sole Executors of this my last will >and testament. Hereby revoking & dismissing all other wills heretofore >by me made ratifying and confirming this and no other & be my last will >& testament witness my hand and seal Eleventh of April in the year of >our Lord one thousand seven hundred & eighty seven. > >Signed, sealed, published, pronounced and declared by the testator to be >his last will and testament in the sight of us > >William Downing, Decd. > >Gaius Dickinson > >James Dickinson >