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Will of Daniel Heath

Will: 2 Mar 1841.
Probate 1 Nov 1841.
Executor: Hezekiah Seymour, friend.
Wit: Joseph Culp, Abijah H. Seymour.

My eight children by my former wife, now deceased, or their heirs:
heirs of my daughter Anna Buckingham: one dollar.
heirs of my son Ira Heath, deceased: one dollar.
heirs of my son Asa Heath, deceased: one dollar.
heirs of my son Jeremiah Heath, deceased: one dollar.
daughter - Mary Halford: one dollar.
son - Daniel Heath: one dollar.
son - James Heath: one dollar.
daughter - Orra Babit: one dollar.
two grandsons that now live with me: one gray mare colt to Jefferson and one 3 yr old heifer to Napoleon Bonapart.

"I also donate and bequeath one quarter of an acre of land for the use and occupancy of a family burying ground forever, bounded and lying as follows:
commencing six rods east of the NW corner of the orchards on the land I now live on and thence running east and south so far as to contain a square quarter of an acre of land exclusively for the aforesaid purpose forever..."

Wife - Dzubah Heath: all personal property and household furniture after the legacies are paid; all real estate during her lifetime... after her death, the real estate is to be divided equally between my remaining six children...
Arden Heath, Sabrina Ann Byington, Philonda McBeth, Charles Heath, Philo Almon Heath and Angela Lockwood.