William Clark Genealogy
Record modified: 2023-01-15
This is my ancestor 10 generations back.
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Born: (unknown)
Died: 1732-09-00 Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania USA
Marriages:
1. Esther (unknown)
Children of William Clark and Esther (unknown):
Notes:
Lancaster Co PA will book A p5
1732-09-07
I William Clark of Lancaster County and Province of Pensilvania being sick
of body but of good and perfect memory...
do make constitute ordain and declare this my last will and testament...
first I will that all those debts and duties that I owe in right or conci-
ence to any manner of person or persons whatsoever shall be well and truly contented and paid or or-
dained to be paid within convenient time after my decease by my executor hereafter named.
Item I leave and bequeath to my dearly beloved wife Ester fifty pounds and to live in the plantation that
I live in now during the time of her widowhood or her christian behaviour and is to take care and
maintain her children and cloath and school them during her living on the said plantation and
in case she sees cause mary she is to leave the said plantation and the children to be disposed of at the
discretion of my executors hereafter named and if my wife sees cause or my executors to take the children
away from her I allow my executors to build her a house as good as she now lives in on the same
plantation and two acres of clear land and convenient fire wood during her widowhood. She is
not to receive the fifty pounds till she removes from the said plantation and her children.
Item I leave and bequeath to my dearly beloved son William and his heirs the house that Robert Cluer[?]
now lives in and two hundred acres thereto to be divided at the discretion of my executors to
comedate the place that I now on and the above plantation always reserved and accepted two acres
of land whereon the meetinghouse now stands with the convenency of the run if it please god that my son
William dies having no heirs I order the above plantation to be equally divided amongst the rest of my
children.
Item I leave and bequeath all the rest of my personal and real estate to be equally di
vided amongst my three daughters.
Item I leave and bequeath the profit and zenk[?] that may
encrew of the two hundred acres that I left my son William till he comes to the age of twenty one years
to be equally divided amongst my three daughters that is to say Sarah Esther and Priscilla.
Item I order and appoint my brother Thomas Clark and the Reverend Mr Adam Boyd to be my executors
to execute this my last will and testament.
witness:
Joseph Jarvis
Thomas Slemons
Archd McNeille
[proved 1732-10-02]
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A Thomas Clark of Lancaster Co PA made his will on 1758-09-09, mentioning but not naming his wife, and naming his children as James, John, Abraham, William, Thomas, Elinor, Mary, and Margaret.
Hinds Site: Genealogy of Ken Hinds -- page 30952
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