Margaret Laughlin (1720 - aft. 1759)

Born 1720 in Ireland

Died after 1759 after age 39 in Chester, Pennsylvania [uncertain]

Biography

Margaret was born about 1720. Margaret is the child of James Laughlin and Elizabeth Stewart.

Margaret was unmarried at the time her father drew his will in March 1759.

Elizabeth his wife was named as the executrix of the will of James Laughlin; she was to receive all his personal estate; his son William was to receive five shillings within a year of his father's decease in addition to what he had already received; his son Hugh Laughlin was to receive five pounds under the same condition; his daughter Margaret Laughlin was to receive three pounds under the same condition; his daughters Elizabeth Alford and Mary Passemore were to receive all their father's full rights of a certain tract of land that he bought of Jeremiah Chamberlin near Conowago on the west side of the Susquehanna; they were to pay their mother 15 pounds each within a year of their father's decease. The will was drawn 8 March 1759 and proven 12 June 1759.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Pennsylvania Probate Records, 1683-1994, Chester Wills 1755-1774 vol 4-5, D-E, page 167 Images. FamilySearch. http://FamilySearch.org : 14 June 2016. County courthouses, Pennsylvania.

Fred Gammons, Friday, June 13, 2014.