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The Last Will & Testament of Job McKay

See Job's line of descent which begins in the Mackay Family Record

xxxxxIn the name of God Amen I Job McCay of Fayette County and State of Ohio being weak in body But of perfect mind and memory and knowing that it is appointed for all men to die do make and ordain this my last will and testament that is to say Principally and first of all I give and recommend my soul into the hand of almighty by God that gave it and my Body I recommend to the Earth to be Buried in a decent & Christian burial at the discretion of my Executors nothing doubting but at the general Resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mighty power of God and is touching such worldly estate where with it has pleased God to bless me in this life I give devise and dispose of the same in the following named and form.

xxxxxFirst I give and bequeath to Ann my dearly beloved wife all my Real and personal estate full so constitute and ordain her the same executor of this my last will and testament to have all my lands and tenement by her....to be enjoyed a while she remains my widow and to be at her disposal if Descassing in my name and do here by utterly dislaw revoke and disnull and every other testament will leagues bequest and execution by me in anywise made will and bequested ratifying and confirming that this and no other to be my last will and testament in witness whereof I have here unto set my hand and seal this 26 day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty. And sealed presence and declared by the same Job McCay as his last will and testament in the presence of us who in his presence and the presence of each other have hereunto set our names.

Job McCay

Joel Rogers
Clary (her "X" mark) Newland

The State of Ohio Fayette County
Court of Common Pleas to the Term of March 1833. Personally appeared in open Court Joel Rogers and Clary Newland whose names and subscribed to the last will and testament of Job McKay dec'd who being sworn as the law directs depose and say that they and each of them did sign said will and testament that he the same testor was at the item of signing and sealing said instrument over the age of twenty one years that he was of sound and disposing mind and memory and that he was not at the time there of under any apparent restraint.

Joel Rogers
Clary (her "X" mark) Newland

Test: Jesse Millihan Clark.

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