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WILL OF ELIZABETH McCLURKIN McQUISTON.

I, Elizabeth McQuiston, being desirous of settling my worldly affairs in the following manner:

To my oldest daughter, Mary Blair, I leave my beauru. (bureau)
To Martha Blair I leave my candle stand.
To Isabel Marshall’s Martha, my looking glass.
To Hugh McQuiston one dollar $1.
To Robert McQuiston one dollar $1.
To John McQuiston I leave one cow and five sheep.
To Elizabeth Montgomery I leave four cows, one horse, and ten sheep, and my cooking stove.
To Jane Pelton I leave one bed and bedding.
To Nancy Gay I leave all the remainder of my bedding and clothes and all cupboard affairs, and my copper kettle.
All the things to be paid by Murdock McQuiston.

And the farm that we now reside on, to be equally divided in value betwixt William and Murdock McQuiston, and when Murdock McQuiston sells or disposes of his part of the land, he must pay Elizabeth Montgomery and Nancy Gay, each of them each one hundred dollar $100, and all of my grandchildren that is called for me, each of them one set of silver spoons worth five dollars $5 per set, and I do appoint William McQuiston to be executor of this my last will and testament, making all former wills null and void.

In witness hereof, I do hereunto set my hand and seal this nineteenth (19th) day of August, eight hundred and forty-four, 1844.

Elizabeth McQuiston
Fallowfield Twp.
Crawford County, Pennsylvania

Witnesses:
Hugh Fletcher
James Dickey, Jr.

Will written: 8/19 1844
Will probated: 9/5 1844

From Descendants of John McClurkin of Ireland and S. C. with the Kirkpatrick, Hood, McQuiston and McClure lines by Myer, Lois C - LDS Microfilm No. 547600