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CHESTER COUNTY · McDONALD · WILLS
Year Decedent & location
*1793 Charles McDonnald - not given docket 2, pg 397
*1748 Jeremiah McDonald - Kannath Twp book C, pg 18
1825 Benjamin McDonald - East Nottingham
*1835 Archilbald McDonald - East Fallowfield
*1842 Robert McDonald - West Fallowfield
*1844 Charles McDonald - East Nottingham
1849 Joseph F. McDonald - Sadsbury
1793
ONLY the bond for estate exists
Charles McDonald, soldier
bondsmen: Charles McClain (his mark), John Meredith, Henry Huzzard
Inventory: taken 17 May 1748 by Thomas Gregg, Thomas Holeen. Value of Estate:
44 pound, 26 shillings(?), 9 cents(?).
1748
Jeremiah McDonald
will:"...I give and bequeath to my Brother Thomas...when he
comes to ye age of twenty one year...I give and bequeath to my friend John
Pile...for the use of my mother...I appoint my gd friend John Pilke Executor...
9th April 1774"
witness: Thos Houlden, Wm Cooper, Jane Houlden.
[no mention of a wife or children]
1842
Robert McDonald of West Fallowfield, Chester County
Bond: Catharine McDonald, Joseph F. McDonald, Allen Mode,
John Woodward, all of Chester Co. 20 Oct 1842. Catharine McDonald and Joseph
McDonald
Inventory: taken 18 Oct 1842. Estate value: $569.73administrators.
Administrators acct: filed 12 Oct 1856 (by Catharine McDonald. Joseph is dec'd)
Payments made to: "Wm Darlington Esq for professional services, Thomas Ingram book acct for beef, Newton J. Nichols for crying sale, James B Humphrey a balance on acct, Amos Tolon for choping wood, John Morrow for work don, Lewis Cooper for Manufacting Sathinet(?), Lewis Walton (collector) road tax, Mark Gellegane in full, Daniel Thommpson (col) for school and dog tax, Stephen Pusey(?) in full, Isaac B. Massey in full, Scott Park in full, Henry B. Freeman in full, Thomas B. March for coffin and plank, F.G. McElhany for work, Ananias Wolf, Daniel remple for carding wool dressing flanel, John Smith in full, Doc Jesse Coates for medicine and attendance, Anderson McDonald for beef, Hamilton graham for lime, John allison, Joshua cloud for diging frave, Elizabeth Baldwin in full, Caleb B. Lilley in full, John Woodward, Jane Lilley for beef and store goods."
1844
Charles McDonald of East Nottingham
Will: I Charles McDonald of the township of East Nottingham in the county
of Chester...my willis that my lot of land ajoining Robert Wilson and others
and my house and lot where Stephen Yahurr(?) both in the township of East
Nottingham now lives be sold...my will is further that as much of my personl
property as can be spared from the [?] use of the famly be sold adn further
it is my will adn desire that my Widow and children should live together
and enjoy the use of my other real and personal property for five years
i common and maintain the younger children adn keep up the real and personal
property as good as it now is, and at the end of five years from my decease,
My real and person property to be appraised by five disenterested men to
be chosen by my widow adn children that is come of age. After such appraisment
I order my son Benjamin F. McDonald to have the privalege of taking the
real estate at the appraisment by paying the widow and other heirs as herinafter
mentin after allowing my son Benjamin f. McDonald two hundred dollars. The
remainder of my real and personal property is to be distributed as follows....My
beloved wife Elizabeth to have one third....the other two thirds to be equally
divided among all my children living share and share a like...and lastly
I nominate...my beloved wife Elizabeth McDonald to be the executrix of this...this
9th day of December 1843.
Signed, Charles McDonald
Witnessed by John M. Henry, James W. Hourison, James Hutchison
Probated West Chester, January 8th 1844, letters of adm. granted to Elizabeth McDonald on the same date.
Orphan Court petition, of Elizabeth McDonald, Feb. 1 , 1849:
The petition of Elizabeth McDonald executrix of charles M'Donald late of East Nottingham township deceased respectfully represents: That said Charles M'Donald died December 1843...that he died seized, among other things, of a message[?] adn tract of land in said township, bounded by lands of John M'Henry, John Turner, Joseph Crowl and others, containng one hundred acres more or less, which is the only real estate of said testator now remaining...are insufficient for payment of the debts...she therefore prays the court ot make an order for the mortgage of the said real estate..
Signed, Elizebeth McDonald
(long list of creditors attached)
(also including the following note:)
We the subscribers, being all the heirs of Charles McDonald deceased who
are of full age, waite in judgment with the widow and executrix in the application
....
Signed, John C. McDonald,
Sarah G. McDonald,
Benjamin F. McDonald
administration report
(long list of payments made out of estate, including:)
"Retained to pay Richard McDonald - $20"
Signed, Elizabeth McDonald May 24, 1849
1835
Archibald McDonald of East Fallowfield
Adm. bond:
filed 4 Sept 1835
Bondsmen: Ann McDonald, Joseph F. McDonald, allen Mode, George B. Still.
Inventory
filed 4 Sept 1835