John Dunwoody

Male 1707 - 1776  (69 years)


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  • Name John Dunwoody 
    Birth 1707  Donegal Co., Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death 17 Sep 1776  West Nantmeal, Chester Co., Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Burial Forks of the Brandywine Cemetery, Glenmoore, Chester Co., Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • Written 17 Sep 1776 John DUNWODY will registered in Book F Page 339 Proved June 18 AD 1777 No 3086 from the collection of Betty Turner In The Name of God, Amen This Seventeenth Day of September in the year of our Lord one Thousand Seven Hundred and seventy six I John Dunwody of West nantmel Township Chester County and Province of Pensylvania being Sick and weak of Body But of perfit Mind and Memory Blessed be God for the Same and Calling to mind That is appointed for all men to Die and finding myself Approaching near to the Time of my Departure of this present Life by the Disolution of my Soul from this frail Body Do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament in the maner and form as followeth Viz: First of all I give and resign my Soul up to God
      Through Jesus Christ who gave it, in hope of a full pardon of all my Sins Through The Merits of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ the Son of God and my Body to be Buried in the Earth in a Desent Christian manner at the Discretion of my Executors in the Blessed hope of a Ressurection to Eternal Life by the power of Almighty God and as touching what Little of this worlds Goods I may Leave behind me I give and Bequeath in manner and form as followeth and First I appoint and order that all my Lawful Debts and Funeral Charges be paid by my
      Execetors
      Item I give and bequeath unto my Dear and Loving Wife the sum of one Hundred pounds together with a Horse and Saddle one Bed and Bed Clothes and one Milch Cow to be kept for her and her Choice of a room in The House
      Item I give and Bequeath unto my Daughter Margret Maghan the wife of Archibald Maghan the Sum of five Shillings
      Item I give and Bequeath unto my Daughter Mary Euart the wife of John Euart the sum of five Shillings
      Item I give and Bequeath unto my Son James Dunwody the sum of five Shillings
      Item I give and Bequeath unto my Daughter Susanna Hamel the Wife of William Hamel the sum of five Shillings
      Item I give and Bequeath unto my Daughter Rebecca McWilliams, the wife Hugh McWilliams Deceased the sum of five Shillings
      Item I give and Bequeath unto my Daughter Sarah Dunwody the sum of
      fifty pounds and a Horse and Saddle and one Bed and Bed Cloths and one
      Case of Drawers and two Milch Cows providing She pleases her Mother
      and Brothers in Marriage and if not I leave it at their Disposal to
      Deal it to her as they Shall think fit.
      Item I give and Bequeath unto my two Sons Robert Dunwody and John Dunwody all the Remainder part of my Estate Both Real and personal to be equally Devided between them as The Shall think to the best advantage--- I Do Hereby ordain and appoint my two Sons Robert Dunwody and John Dunwody to be my sole Exacutors of this my Last Will and Testament and I Do herby Revoke Disalow and Disanull all and every other former Wills and Testaments whatsoever heretofore made or
      Mentioned and Do hereby Ratify and Confirm This and know other to be
      my Last Will and Testament in Witness whereof I have hereunto Set my
      hand Seal this Day and year above Writen
      Signed Sealed Published Pronounced and Declared by the said John
      Dunwody as his Last Will and Testament in the Presence of us the
      Subscribed---
      [a cover page has been taped over the witnesses' signatures]
      Personally appeared before me Ann Craig and Upon her Solumn Oath Doth Say That She Saw on the 18th Day of September 1776 a Will that Was Signed and Sealed with John Dunwoody Named; Which was Signed by James Anderson and James Legett as Evidences And that the above is the true purport of y Said Executed Will. Except y fourth Bequest Which this Deponant sayith was not in that Writing which was so Executed and further Saith not Ann Craig (signature)
      Before me Thomas Taylor
      June 18, 1777 Personally Appeared before me James Anderson and Upon his Solumn Oath Saith that as Near as he Can Remember About y 15th or 16th of September John Dunwody Sent for him and y said John Dunwody ordered his wife to tell his Son Robert Dunwody to fetch his will he then had wrote. And that y said John Dunwody took the said Writing And -xxx two illegible words xxx- and this Deponant then askd him if he Could Read it Which the Said Dunwoody Said he Could as it Was a Very Legable hand Writing: And this Deponant then Asked him if it was to his mind. Which y Said Dunwoody then Answerd him it Was: then the Said John Dunwoody took the Said Writing and signd and Sealed it and Declared it to be his Last Will & Testament and desires this Deponant to be a Witness to the Same. Declaring that to be his Will and no Other: This Deponant Signed y Said Writing as an Evidance therunto And that y Said Deponant Saith y Said Dunwoody was in Perfect Disposing Mind & Memory at this time of his Executing of Same and further Saith not
      James Anderson (signature)
      Before me T. Taylor L.S.
    Person ID I15026  OurNorthernRoots | Andrew's Ancestor
    Last Modified 4 Oct 2020 

    Father James Dunwoody,   b. Abt 1680, Londonderry, Ulster, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 10 May 1749, Mt.Charles, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 69 years) 
    Mother Ann 
    Marriage Est 1700 
    Family ID F7033  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Susanna Criswell,   b. 1719, Down, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1789 (Age 70 years) 
    Marriage 1740 
    Children 
     1. Robert Dunwoody,   b. Est 1740   d. Abt 1798, Georgia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 58 years)
    +2. Doctor James Dunwoody,   b. 1741, Chester Co., Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Jul 1809, Liberty Co., Georgia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 68 years)
     3. Margaret Dunwoody,   b. Est 1744
     4. John Dunwoody, Jr.,   b. 1745, Chester Co., Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 19 May 1824 (Age 79 years)
    +5. Mary Dunwoody,   b. Est 1746, Chester Co., Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt 1820, Geneseo, Livingston Co., New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 74 years)
     6. Susanna Dunwoody,   b. Est 1750
     7. Sarah Dunwoody,   b. Est 1755
    +8. Rebecca Dunwoody,   b. 20 Jun 1755, Chester Co., Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Family ID F5250  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 28 Nov 2014 

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    Link to Google MapsBirth - 1707 - Donegal Co., Ireland Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 17 Sep 1776 - West Nantmeal, Chester Co., Pennsylvania, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - - Forks of the Brandywine Cemetery, Glenmoore, Chester Co., Pennsylvania, USA Link to Google Earth
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