Isaac Williams (abt. 1765 - 1838)

Born about 1765 in Pennsylvania

Descendants

Died Feb 1838 at about age 73 in Upper St. Clair Township, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States

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Biography

Disputed Origins

Some family trees conflate him with Isaac Williams son of Isaac Williams and Lydia Harwood.

Last Will and Testament

Will of Isaac Williams

Dated 8 February 1838; probated 8 February 1838, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania^[1]

In the name of God amen. I Isaac Williams of the township of St. Clair in the county of Allegheny and state of Pennsylvania being extremely reduced in bodily health and strength but of sound mind and memory to prevent difficulties and misunderstandings after my death whenever it may please God that shall take place. Do make this my last will and testament as hereafter follows viz. impr.

I do request and enjoin it on very executors hereafter to the named to call in and collect all sums due to my estate and to pay my several expenses and any other last debts as soon as it ... after my decease.

To Agnes Williams, my wife, I leave all my property seal personal of mixed ... and use as she may think ... by leasing the whole letting fields to ... or putting personal property and stock to ... sale as all in my present ... as well as where my son John lives shall be under ... ... while she shall live or she shall continue my widow but if she shall marry again she shall in such role relinquish all claim of above to seal and personal estate and take as hers ... one horse saddle and bridle, one cow, the best bed and bedding, and two hundred dollars in money.

To my son John Williams I leave and bequeath fifty-six acres and one ... ... ... ... ... surveyed and paid ... ... ... west ... of my ... by Nathaniel Patterson. Surveyed on the 17th August 1819 as per a draft in my possession. Conditioned that ... John shall pay to his sister Sarah Bausman ... ... ... ... five years after my decease, the sum of three hundred dollars without interest.

To the heirs of my daughter, Amelia Williams, Intermarried with John Hulse, I leave and bequeath the sum of fifteen dollars in money to heirs appointed to the purchase of a head and foot stone to their mothe's grave. If ... shall have been purchased before this item to ..., then it is to be divided equally among the father and children. My son, Isaac Williams, is entrusted to pay this sum within one year after my decease.

To my daughter, Elizabeth Williams, widow of John Williams mason of St. Clair Township deceased, and to her children after her I leave and bequeath three acres of land, which is to be laid off in a parallelagram with the long side on the line of the old washington road of a survey of forty acres and one hundred and one perches in the south east corner of my farm as hereafter to be divised to my son, Robert, together with the sum of fifty dollars in money to be paid to my son Isaac as the first legacy paid.

To my daughter, Agnes Williams, intermarried with Nathaniel Patterson surveyor of St. Clair Township, and to her children I leave and bequeath the sum of two hundred dollars, one hundred of which has already been paid for Patterson to John Hulse as due to estate of Henry Keever deceased. The remaining hundred to be paid by my son Isaac within two years after my decease. To my granddaughters, Agnes and Margaret Patterson, I give a pair of French bedsteads each. My son Isaac is charged to furnish them.

To my daughter, Duralo Williams, intermarried with Reinhart Bausman Esq. of Birminham, St. Clair Townhsip and to her children I leave and bequeath the sume of three hundred dollars and my son, John, is bound to pay the same without interest within five years after my decease.

To my daughters, Margaret and Mary Williams, still single and at home with me I leave and bequeath the sum to each the sum of one thousand dollars to be paid as follows viz. to each five hundred dollars of the sum due from Hough Macleam of Beaver on the first of April 1838. Item this shall be a ... on my old farm and mansion for their support and maintenance in sickness and in health, or if they should choose to live seperate from their mother and brother, as in hereafter will be explained, they shall have choice of either of the houses to live in, to be supplied with plenty of fuel both summer and winter, and the house to be kept in good, tenantable, repair and this to continue while they remain single, but if both or either of them should marry, then both or each to take a bed and bedding and cow. And my sons Isaac and Robert are herein bound, Isaac to pay Margaret five hundred dollars, and Robert to pay Mary five hundred dollars within five years after such marriage at the rate of one hundred dollars a year without interest, but if they or either of them should not survive the five years, or die without lawful issue, the amount remainin unpaid, to them or either of them, shall revert back to Isaac or Robert as the case may be.

To my youngest son Robert Shawhan Williams, I leave and bequeath a plot of forty acres and one hundred and one perches surveyed and laid off the south east corner of my farm by Nathaniel Patterson surveryor, on the 16th August 1819 as per drafts in my possession. Surveying there from three acres in the very south east corner as already devised to Elizabeth Williams, also the one half of fourteen hundred dollars paid to Robert Bingham of St. Clair Township, if recovered from said Bingham.

To my son, Isaac Williams, I leave and bequeath the remainder of my farm, whereon I now live. Containing the mansion and other buildings with all the farming utensils and whole stock and other articles appertaining to and now on the place, containing and being eight-seven acres be the same more or less. Conditioned that he shall supply and maintian his mother and single sisters together in family estate, subject to the advice and directing of his mother as her 2nd item of this testament, or in the case of this own, or his sisters marrying, or they may choose to live seperate, he shall be bound to fulfill the 8th item of this testament, with regard to said single sisters, Margaret and Mary Williams.

Lastly, I do hereby appoint my wife, Agnes Williams, and my son, Isaac Williams Jr., and I do hereby appoint Dr. James Agnew of Pittsburgh, and request him to act as executor of this my last will and testament as witness my hand and seal this eighth day of February in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight. 1838.

Sources

1. ↑ Will Books, 1789-1917; Author: Allegheny County (Pennsylvania). Register of Wills; Probate Place: Allegheny, Pennsylvania: https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/522603:8802?ssrc=pt&tid=150807728&pid=242001785929

Census Records:

• "United States Census, 1790," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GYYB-HMV?cc=1803959&wc=3XT9-MV4%3A1584071103%2C1584071259%2C1584071265 : 21 September 2019), Pennsylvania > Allegheny > Portion taken from Washington > image 7 of 9; citing NARA microfilm publication M637, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
• "United States Census, 1800," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHRW-XHC : accessed 6 May 2022), Isaac Williams, St Clair, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States; citing p. 89, NARA microfilm publication M32, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 35; FHL microfilm 363,338.
• "United States Census, 1810," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XH2K-4JD : accessed 6 May 2022), Isaac Williams, St Clair, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States; citing p. 172, NARA microfilm publication M252 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 44; FHL microfilm 193,670.
• "United States Census, 1820," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHGQ-K2L : accessed 6 May 2022), Isaac Williams, St. Clair Township, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States; citing p. , NARA microfilm publication , (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll ; FHL microfilm .
• "United States Census, 1830," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHP6-CL3 : 20 February 2021), Isaac Williams, St Clair, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States; citing 225, NARA microfilm publication M19, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 144; FHL microfilm 20,618.

See Also:

• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LHFY-YBG