The Shemwell Family

Moses Baldwin Last Will and Family Listing Will of Moses Baldwin >From Parke Co., Book of Old Wills at the Public Library Friday morning Feb 22nd 1833 court meet pursuant to adjournment. Daniel Baldwin came into court and made the following affidavit, to wit, State of Indiana Parke County, sect: Daniel Baldwin Executor of the last will and testament of Moses Baldwin Deceased makes oath that the last will and testament of the said Moses Baldwin Deceased was regularly proven and recorded in the Parke Probate Court and that the same was consumed by fire in the burning of the clerks office of said county and that the record of the same was consumed by fire. Sworn to in open court Feb 22nd 1833 Henry Slavins Commissioner Whereupon the following copy of said will was ordered to be recorded: "In the name of God Amen. | Moses Baldwin of Parke County, Indiana considering the uncertainty of this mortal life and being sound in mind and memory do make and publish this my last will and testament in manner and form following : first. | give and bequeath to my beloved wife Mary Baldwin all my goods, chattles and effects (land property excepted) to have and to hold and to dispose of at her will and pleasure. secondly. | give to my son and daughter Mary and John Baldwin all of that tract or parcel of land lying in the aforesaid county and state, it being in township fifteen north of range six west and west half of the north west quarter of section eight in the district of land offered for sale at Crawfordsville, Indiana containing eighty acres to be divided equally between them provided that they shall support their mother Mary Baldwin on the said tract of land during her natural life with all the necessaries that may tend to her bodily comfort and convenience. I hereby appoint my wife Mary Baldwin and my son Daniel Baldwin executors of this my last will and testament hereby revoking all former wills made by me. In witness whereof | have hereunto set my hand and seal this eighteenth day of May one thousand eight hundred and thirty two. his Moses X_ Baldwin Mark Signed, sealed, published and declared by the above named Moses Baldwin to be his last will and testament in the presence of us who have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses in the presence of the Testator Joel Ward William Aydelott Daniel Baldwin I Wallice Rea of the Probate Court of the county of Parke in the state of Indiana do certify the annexed to be a true copy of the last will and testament of Moses Baldwin late of the said county deceased and that Mary Baldwin executress and Daniel Baldwin executor therein named hath duly proved the same according to law and is duly authorized to take upon themselves the administration of the estate of said Testator according to the said will. Witness my hand and the seal of the said court the 1/th Sept. A.D. 1832 Seal https://www.familysearch.org/en/tree/person/memories/2MGL-7SH