Coshocton County Ohio Wills

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Will and Probate of JOHN H. HESLIP, d 1820

Linton Mills, Coshocton Ohio

Source: Coshocton County Ohio Probate Records, Wills 1811-1837, volume2B, p261-264.

Repository: FamilySearch.org: United States, Ohio, Probate Records, 1790-1967, Wills 1811-1837, volume 1, 2B, C, image 148-150.

Submitted by Jonathan Moreland, transcribed 13 Sep 2012, edited to add punctuation for convenience in reading.

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October Term 1820, Court of Common Pleas

State of Ohio Coshochton1 County, Court of Common Pleas October Term 1820

John Haslip1 Executor of John Haslip1 Dec'd

Will proven and letters of testamentary granted

Be it remembered, that on the eleventh day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, the last will and testament of John Haslip1, late of said county, deceased, was produced in Court here and regularly proven by the oaths of the subscribing witnesses to said Will and Codocil1 as law requires. Whereupon ordered that Letters Testamentary be granted to John Haslip1 the Executor therein named with a copy of said Will and Codocil1 thereto anexed1 and thereupon the said Executor was duly sworn as such in open Court according to law and thereupon Letters Testamentary with a copy of the Will and probate thereof thereto annexed were issued all of which reads in the following words to wit:
Letters Testamentary

State of Ohio Coshocton County,
I Adam Johnston clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county aforesaid, to John Haslip1 of the City of Baltimore, Executor named in the last Will and Testament of John Heslip late of Coshochton1 county deceased (and hereto anexed1). Whereas the late John Heslip lately died, leaving a last Will and Testament, therein naming you, the said John Heslip, to be the sole Executor of the same, and the said last Will and Testament being duly proven and approved of by the Court, I, the said Adam Johnston, clerk as aforesaid, do, by these presents, and by order of said Court, commit unto you full power and authority over all and singular the goods and chattels, rights and credits, of the said deceased, well and faithfully to dispose of the same according to the said last Will and Testament; as also to ask, gather, receive and recover, all and every of the debts and credits whatsoever of the said deceased, which to him whilst he lived and at the time of his decease did appertain; as also to pay and discharge all and singular the debts, dues, and demands which he at the time of his decease (including his funeral expenses) stood bound to pay, according to the laws of the State, so far as his goods and chattels, rights and credits, come to your hands, will extend. And for that purpose you are to call on each creditor of the deceased, by public advertisement, to exhibit to you their several lawful claims within twelve months of this date. You are also to make out a true and perfect inventory of all and singular the goods and chattels, rights and credits of the deceased, and exhibit the same into the Court of Common Pleas of said county within three months.

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from this date; and return a true and perfect account of your administration, upon oath or affirmation, within one year. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, at Coshochton1, the eleventh day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty. A. Johnston Clk

Will

In the name of God amen, I John Heslip of the county of Coshochton1 in the State of Ohio, being sick and weak in body, but of sound and disposing mind, memory and understanding, considering the certainty of death, and the uncertainty of the time thereof, and being desirous to settle my worldly affairs, and thereby be the better prepared to leave this world when it shall please God to call me home, do therefore make and publish this my last will and testament, in manner and form following; that is to say

First and principally[sic], I commit my soul into the hands of Almighty God and my body to the earth, to be decently buried at the discresion1 of my executor hereafter named, and after my debts and funeral charges are paid, I devise and bequeath as follows

I give and devise unto my beloved daughters, Agnes Vance, Elizabeth Jefferson, Mary Harberson1, and my beloved son Thomas Heslip, the sum of eight thousand dollars, now on interest in the hands of my son-in-law Robert Harbison to be equally divided between them.

Item, I give and bequeath unto my beloved son John Heslip, my late mansion house, and the lot whereon it stands, in the City of Baltimore, situated on Conewago street, and known by being a part of the Old Academy, and also my silver watch.

Item, I give and bequeath unto my well beloved son Joseph Heslip, all my estate, real, personal and mixed, of whatever name or nature, lying and being within the counties of Coshochton1 and Guernsey, in the State of Ohio, my silver watch excepted.

Item, I give and bequeath unto my beloved son Thomas Heslip one hundred and ten acres of land be the same more or less, lying and being on Mores1 Run in Baltimore County and State of Maryland and also a leasehold lot in the City of Baltimore, which I bought of Robert Scott, with the buildings and improvements thereunto belonging the same, bounding on Conewago street.

Item, I give and devise unto my son John Heslip, and my son-in-law William Jefferson, two quarter sections of land in the Military Virginia School Lands, situated on Salt Creek, in Wayne County State of Ohio, to be equally divided between them.

Item, I give and devise unto my sons John and Thomas Heslip, nine acres of land being a part of the Perkins'es1 estate, and sold me under a decree of the chamber, to be equally divided between them, they to pay my son Joseph Heslip one hundred dollars annually during his life out of the income thereof.

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Items, I give and devise unto my son Joseph Heslip the money now in the hands of my son John Heslip and my son-in-law William Jefferson, to be by them kept on interest for him, and the interest annually paid him until he may stand in need of the principle.

Item, I give and bequeath unto my daughter Elizabeth Jefferson my negro slave Roseta, and her daughter, now with my said daughter Elizabeth, to continue with her until they may become lawfully free.

And lastly I do hereby constitute and appoint my well beloved son John Heslip, of the City of Baltimore, to be sole executor of this my last Will and Testament, revoking and annulling all former Wills by me heretofore made, ratifying and confirming this and none other, to be my last Will and Testament.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this twenty eighth day of August, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty.

Signed sealed published and delivered by John Heslip, the within named testator, as and for his last Will and Testament, in the presence of us, who at his request, and in his presents1, and in the presents1 of each other, have hereunto subscribed our names witnesses thereto. Israel H. Buker, Thomas Wallis, George Phillips.
John Heslip, seal

Codicil

Whereas I John Haslip1 of the county of Coshochton1 and State of Ohio having made and duly executed my last Will and Testament in writing bearing date the twenty eighth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, which said last Will and Testament and every clause, bequest and divicse1 therein contained I hereby ratify and confirm, saving and excepting such clause and bequest therein mentioned as is by me herein after revoked and made void, and being desirous to alter such part thereof, making an addition thereto do therefore hereby make this my Codocil1 which I will and direct shall be taken and held as a part of my said Will and Testament in manner and form following that is to say

Item, And whereas by my said Will I did give and bequeath unto my beloved son Thomas Heslip one hundred and ten acres of land, be the same more or less, lying and being on Moors Run in Baltimore county and State of Maryland. Now I do hereby revoke the said bequest so far as it respects the aforesaid tract of land and do give and devise unto my beloved sons John and Thomas Heslip the before mentioned tract of land to be equally divided between them. -

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this eleventh day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty.

Signed, dated, published and delivered by John Heslip, the above named testator as and for a Codocil1 to his last Will and Testament in the presence of us, who at his request, in his presence, and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as witnesses thereto Thos Wallis, George Phillips, David Wolgomott.

John Heslip, seal

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Letters of Testamentary Awarded

At a Court of Common Pleas held at Coshochton1 within and for the county of Coshochoton1 and State of Ohio, before the Honorable William Wilson, Esquire, president of said Court and Peter Casey, Mordicai Chalfant and Benjamin Robinson, Esquires, associate judges of the same Court for said county of Coshochton1 at the term of October to wit on the eleventh day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, the last Will and Testament and Codocil1 thereto anexed1 of John Heslip, late of said county, deceased, was produced in open Court and regularly proven according to law by all the subscribing witnesses to said Will and Codocil1, who severally on their solemn oaths do say that to the best of their apprehension the Testator was at the times of making said Will and Codocil1 of sound and disposing mind, memory and understanding, and that they heard him publish pronounce and declare the same to be his last Will and Codocil1 thereto attached, and that the Testator signed the same and affixed his seal thereto in his presence whom he called to witness the same, and that they subscribed their names thereto as witnesses in presence of the Testator and in the presence of each other. � And thereupon John Heslip the Executor named in said last Will and Testament appeared in open Court and was duly sworn as Executor of the same as the law requires, and thereupon Letters of Testamentary were awarded to said Executor according to law. Attest, A. Johnston, Clk

1[sic]; Common misspellings throughout text
a. Haslip is correctly spelled 'Heslip'. Inconsistent in document
b. Coshochton is currently spelled 'Coshocton' without the 2nd h
c. Codocil is correctly spelled 'Codicil'.
d. Anexed is correctly spelled 'annexed'.
e. Harberson is correctly spelled 'Harbison'.
f. Perkins'es is correctly splled 'Perkins'.
g. Presents is correctly spelled 'presence'.

Contributed by:Jonathan Andrew Moreland