Wife of William McBrayer (1696)
Died in Hamilton Township, on Monday, the 12th inst., one of the first settlers, and it is supposed the oldest inhabitant of the County. Mrs Rebecca M'Brier, aged 101, relict of the late William M'Brier. Mrs M'Brier was a native of Ireland, and emigrated to this country about the year 1737, soon after which her husband purchased and settled on a tract of land within about 7 miles of town, where they spent the remainder of their days. She was a woman of athletic habit, even temper, and as the poet expresses it, "with a little pleat'd", and possessed to the day of her death a degree of mental and bodily strength, unusual to persons of her advanced years. She was a firm believer in, and practicer of, the doctrines of the New Testament. Being deprived sometime before her death, (by failure of her eyesight) of her favorite amusement of reading, she seemed to wish for that final change from mortality to immortality, in which the righteous are at rest. On Tuesday her remains were deposited by the side of her husband in the old burial ground near Brown's Mill. (Obituary)
She had been blind for some years. She was helping her daughter-in-law, Agnes, with the household duties when she remarked, "I guess I'll go lie down a bit" and when they went to her she had passed away without a struggle.
(Information from "In Defiance" the New McBrayer Family Home Page hosted by Carl B. McBrayer, http://members.cox.net and/or "The McBrayers of America" by
Carl B. McBrayer. http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/m/c/b/Carl-B-Mcbrayer/index.html)
NOTE: 1797 The distribution of the estate of William McBrayer (McBriar) is covered in Orphan's Court records of Franklin County, PA (Vol. A, dated 4 Sept 1797). The record recites that his heirs were his widow, Rebecca, and his children, James, Samuel, William, David, and Sarah, who married to Andrew Taylor, all of full age. The deed shows that in 1796 Samuel and William McBrayer, both of Rutherford County, North Carolina, sold their interest in this property to David McBrayer for 69 pounds, 10 shillings. It further states that James had died, unmarried and intestate in May 1796.
(LDS Film # 323827)
(p.91) "Petition of Andrew Taylor who is intermarried with Sarah McBriar one of the Daughters and Co. heirs of William McBriar late of Hamilton Twp decd. ..." "Sd Wm McBriar died intestate at the said Twps in October 1795 leaving widow named Rebecca and lawful issue to survive him, to wit, James, Samuel, William Sarah intermarried with the petitioner, and David all of full age. That the said William McBriar died owner and seized of a certain tract of land in the said Twp adjoining land of William Withney? and McBriar & James Mc Briar containing by computation one hundred and eleven acres and allowances. That Samuel & William have sold their rights and Interest in the said premises to their Brother David, and that James died in
(p.92) 1796 unmarried & intestate, and that the said parties have not been able to agree upon any division or partition of the Same and thereupon prayed the Court to award an Inquest to view the said land & premises and they find that the same can be divided among the widow & children of the said intestate or their legal representatives or so divide as to accommodate two or more of the children [and] heirs of the said intestate, then to make partition thereof otherwise to value the whole undivided and make return thereof. Whereupon the Court direct that the Sheriff in his proper person with twelve good & lawful men of his Bailiwick in the presence of all the parties who share choose to attend they having due & previous notice thereof do hold an inquest on the said premises with the appurtenances and divide the same to and amongst the widow and children of the said dec.d or their legal representatives if the same can be done without prejudice to and spoiling the whole, otherwise to value the whole undivided and make return thereof as well under the hand and seal of the said Sheriff as also under the hands and seal of the said Jurors upon their respective oaths of affirmations to the next orphan Court after the said Inquisition shall be holden. "
(p100) The return of an Inquisition held by George Hetich, Sheriff of Franklin County on the first day of September. Inst. on 137 acres & one quarter of land in Hamilton Twp adj land of William Withney? & others being the real estate of Wm McBriar late of the said Twp decd. ...held in pursuance of an order dated 4th September 1797...premises & divided the farm to and among the widow & children... or value the whole undivided...Land would not divide to and among the widow & children of the said dec.d without prejudice... valued the whole undivided at the sum of three hundred and thirty two pounds seven shillings lawful money of Penn whereupon the Court approved of the said return..."
PG104 Nov 1798 " On motion the Court allow David McBriar one year from last appeared Court for the pay. of the share of Andrew Taylor & his wife their share of William McBriar estate he paying Int. from last Court, and their share of the widow dower at her death."
Thanks to Debra Anderson for additional information.
Died in Hamilton Township, on Monday, the 12th inst., one of the first settlers, and it is supposed the oldest inhabitant of the County. Mrs Rebecca M'Brier, aged 101, relict of the late William M'Brier. Mrs M'Brier was a native of Ireland, and emigrated to this country about the year 1737, soon after which her husband purchased and settled on a tract of land within about 7 miles of town, where they spent the remainder of their days. She was a woman of athletic habit, even temper, and as the poet expresses it, "with a little pleat'd", and possessed to the day of her death a degree of mental and bodily strength, unusual to persons of her advanced years. She was a firm believer in, and practicer of, the doctrines of the New Testament. Being deprived sometime before her death, (by failure of her eyesight) of her favorite amusement of reading, she seemed to wish for that final change from mortality to immortality, in which the righteous are at rest. On Tuesday her remains were deposited by the side of her husband in the old burial ground near Brown's Mill. (Obituary)
She had been blind for some years. She was helping her daughter-in-law, Agnes, with the household duties when she remarked, "I guess I'll go lie down a bit" and when they went to her she had passed away without a struggle.
(Information from "In Defiance" the New McBrayer Family Home Page hosted by Carl B. McBrayer, http://members.cox.net and/or "The McBrayers of America" by
Carl B. McBrayer. http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/m/c/b/Carl-B-Mcbrayer/index.html)
NOTE: 1797 The distribution of the estate of William McBrayer (McBriar) is covered in Orphan's Court records of Franklin County, PA (Vol. A, dated 4 Sept 1797). The record recites that his heirs were his widow, Rebecca, and his children, James, Samuel, William, David, and Sarah, who married to Andrew Taylor, all of full age. The deed shows that in 1796 Samuel and William McBrayer, both of Rutherford County, North Carolina, sold their interest in this property to David McBrayer for 69 pounds, 10 shillings. It further states that James had died, unmarried and intestate in May 1796.
(LDS Film # 323827)
(p.91) "Petition of Andrew Taylor who is intermarried with Sarah McBriar one of the Daughters and Co. heirs of William McBriar late of Hamilton Twp decd. ..." "Sd Wm McBriar died intestate at the said Twps in October 1795 leaving widow named Rebecca and lawful issue to survive him, to wit, James, Samuel, William Sarah intermarried with the petitioner, and David all of full age. That the said William McBriar died owner and seized of a certain tract of land in the said Twp adjoining land of William Withney? and McBriar & James Mc Briar containing by computation one hundred and eleven acres and allowances. That Samuel & William have sold their rights and Interest in the said premises to their Brother David, and that James died in
(p.92) 1796 unmarried & intestate, and that the said parties have not been able to agree upon any division or partition of the Same and thereupon prayed the Court to award an Inquest to view the said land & premises and they find that the same can be divided among the widow & children of the said intestate or their legal representatives or so divide as to accommodate two or more of the children [and] heirs of the said intestate, then to make partition thereof otherwise to value the whole undivided and make return thereof. Whereupon the Court direct that the Sheriff in his proper person with twelve good & lawful men of his Bailiwick in the presence of all the parties who share choose to attend they having due & previous notice thereof do hold an inquest on the said premises with the appurtenances and divide the same to and amongst the widow and children of the said dec.d or their legal representatives if the same can be done without prejudice to and spoiling the whole, otherwise to value the whole undivided and make return thereof as well under the hand and seal of the said Sheriff as also under the hands and seal of the said Jurors upon their respective oaths of affirmations to the next orphan Court after the said Inquisition shall be holden. "
(p100) The return of an Inquisition held by George Hetich, Sheriff of Franklin County on the first day of September. Inst. on 137 acres & one quarter of land in Hamilton Twp adj land of William Withney? & others being the real estate of Wm McBriar late of the said Twp decd. ...held in pursuance of an order dated 4th September 1797...premises & divided the farm to and among the widow & children... or value the whole undivided...Land would not divide to and among the widow & children of the said dec.d without prejudice... valued the whole undivided at the sum of three hundred and thirty two pounds seven shillings lawful money of Penn whereupon the Court approved of the said return..."
PG104 Nov 1798 " On motion the Court allow David McBriar one year from last appeared Court for the pay. of the share of Andrew Taylor & his wife their share of William McBriar estate he paying Int. from last Court, and their share of the widow dower at her death."
Thanks to Debra Anderson for additional information.
Wife of William McBrayer (1696)
Died in Hamilton Township, on Monday, the 12th inst., one of the first settlers, and it is supposed the oldest inhabitant of the County. Mrs Rebecca M'Brier, aged 101, relict of the late William M'Brier. Mrs M'Brier was a native of Ireland, and emigrated to this country about the year 1737, soon after which her husband purchased and settled on a tract of land within about 7 miles of town, where they spent the remainder of their days. She was a woman of athletic habit, even temper, and as the poet expresses it, "with a little pleat'd", and possessed to the day of her death a degree of mental and bodily strength, unusual to persons of her advanced years. She was a firm believer in, and practicer of, the doctrines of the New Testament. Being deprived sometime before her death, (by failure of her eyesight) of her favorite amusement of reading, she seemed to wish for that final change from mortality to immortality, in which the righteous are at rest. On Tuesday her remains were deposited by the side of her husband in the old burial ground near Brown's Mill. (Obituary)
She had been blind for some years. She was helping her daughter-in-law, Agnes, with the household duties when she remarked, "I guess I'll go lie down a bit" and when they went to her she had passed away without a struggle.
(Information from "In Defiance" the New McBrayer Family Home Page hosted by Carl B. McBrayer, http://members.cox.net and/or "The McBrayers of America" by
Carl B. McBrayer. http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/m/c/b/Carl-B-Mcbrayer/index.html)
NOTE: 1797 The distribution of the estate of William McBrayer (McBriar) is covered in Orphan's Court records of Franklin County, PA (Vol. A, dated 4 Sept 1797). The record recites that his heirs were his widow, Rebecca, and his children, James, Samuel, William, David, and Sarah, who married to Andrew Taylor, all of full age. The deed shows that in 1796 Samuel and William McBrayer, both of Rutherford County, North Carolina, sold their interest in this property to David McBrayer for 69 pounds, 10 shillings. It further states that James had died, unmarried and intestate in May 1796.
(LDS Film # 323827)
(p.91) "Petition of Andrew Taylor who is intermarried with Sarah McBriar one of the Daughters and Co. heirs of William McBriar late of Hamilton Twp decd. ..." "Sd Wm McBriar died intestate at the said Twps in October 1795 leaving widow named Rebecca and lawful issue to survive him, to wit, James, Samuel, William Sarah intermarried with the petitioner, and David all of full age. That the said William McBriar died owner and seized of a certain tract of land in the said Twp adjoining land of William Withney? and McBriar & James Mc Briar containing by computation one hundred and eleven acres and allowances. That Samuel & William have sold their rights and Interest in the said premises to their Brother David, and that James died in
(p.92) 1796 unmarried & intestate, and that the said parties have not been able to agree upon any division or partition of the Same and thereupon prayed the Court to award an Inquest to view the said land & premises and they find that the same can be divided among the widow & children of the said intestate or their legal representatives or so divide as to accommodate two or more of the children [and] heirs of the said intestate, then to make partition thereof otherwise to value the whole undivided and make return thereof. Whereupon the Court direct that the Sheriff in his proper person with twelve good & lawful men of his Bailiwick in the presence of all the parties who share choose to attend they having due & previous notice thereof do hold an inquest on the said premises with the appurtenances and divide the same to and amongst the widow and children of the said dec.d or their legal representatives if the same can be done without prejudice to and spoiling the whole, otherwise to value the whole undivided and make return thereof as well under the hand and seal of the said Sheriff as also under the hands and seal of the said Jurors upon their respective oaths of affirmations to the next orphan Court after the said Inquisition shall be holden. "
(p100) The return of an Inquisition held by George Hetich, Sheriff of Franklin County on the first day of September. Inst. on 137 acres & one quarter of land in Hamilton Twp adj land of William Withney? & others being the real estate of Wm McBriar late of the said Twp decd. ...held in pursuance of an order dated 4th September 1797...premises & divided the farm to and among the widow & children... or value the whole undivided...Land would not divide to and among the widow & children of the said dec.d without prejudice... valued the whole undivided at the sum of three hundred and thirty two pounds seven shillings lawful money of Penn whereupon the Court approved of the said return..."
PG104 Nov 1798 " On motion the Court allow David McBriar one year from last appeared Court for the pay. of the share of Andrew Taylor & his wife their share of William McBriar estate he paying Int. from last Court, and their share of the widow dower at her death."
Thanks to Debra Anderson for additional information.
Died in Hamilton Township, on Monday, the 12th inst., one of the first settlers, and it is supposed the oldest inhabitant of the County. Mrs Rebecca M'Brier, aged 101, relict of the late William M'Brier. Mrs M'Brier was a native of Ireland, and emigrated to this country about the year 1737, soon after which her husband purchased and settled on a tract of land within about 7 miles of town, where they spent the remainder of their days. She was a woman of athletic habit, even temper, and as the poet expresses it, "with a little pleat'd", and possessed to the day of her death a degree of mental and bodily strength, unusual to persons of her advanced years. She was a firm believer in, and practicer of, the doctrines of the New Testament. Being deprived sometime before her death, (by failure of her eyesight) of her favorite amusement of reading, she seemed to wish for that final change from mortality to immortality, in which the righteous are at rest. On Tuesday her remains were deposited by the side of her husband in the old burial ground near Brown's Mill. (Obituary)
She had been blind for some years. She was helping her daughter-in-law, Agnes, with the household duties when she remarked, "I guess I'll go lie down a bit" and when they went to her she had passed away without a struggle.
(Information from "In Defiance" the New McBrayer Family Home Page hosted by Carl B. McBrayer, http://members.cox.net and/or "The McBrayers of America" by
Carl B. McBrayer. http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/m/c/b/Carl-B-Mcbrayer/index.html)
NOTE: 1797 The distribution of the estate of William McBrayer (McBriar) is covered in Orphan's Court records of Franklin County, PA (Vol. A, dated 4 Sept 1797). The record recites that his heirs were his widow, Rebecca, and his children, James, Samuel, William, David, and Sarah, who married to Andrew Taylor, all of full age. The deed shows that in 1796 Samuel and William McBrayer, both of Rutherford County, North Carolina, sold their interest in this property to David McBrayer for 69 pounds, 10 shillings. It further states that James had died, unmarried and intestate in May 1796.
(LDS Film # 323827)
(p.91) "Petition of Andrew Taylor who is intermarried with Sarah McBriar one of the Daughters and Co. heirs of William McBriar late of Hamilton Twp decd. ..." "Sd Wm McBriar died intestate at the said Twps in October 1795 leaving widow named Rebecca and lawful issue to survive him, to wit, James, Samuel, William Sarah intermarried with the petitioner, and David all of full age. That the said William McBriar died owner and seized of a certain tract of land in the said Twp adjoining land of William Withney? and McBriar & James Mc Briar containing by computation one hundred and eleven acres and allowances. That Samuel & William have sold their rights and Interest in the said premises to their Brother David, and that James died in
(p.92) 1796 unmarried & intestate, and that the said parties have not been able to agree upon any division or partition of the Same and thereupon prayed the Court to award an Inquest to view the said land & premises and they find that the same can be divided among the widow & children of the said intestate or their legal representatives or so divide as to accommodate two or more of the children [and] heirs of the said intestate, then to make partition thereof otherwise to value the whole undivided and make return thereof. Whereupon the Court direct that the Sheriff in his proper person with twelve good & lawful men of his Bailiwick in the presence of all the parties who share choose to attend they having due & previous notice thereof do hold an inquest on the said premises with the appurtenances and divide the same to and amongst the widow and children of the said dec.d or their legal representatives if the same can be done without prejudice to and spoiling the whole, otherwise to value the whole undivided and make return thereof as well under the hand and seal of the said Sheriff as also under the hands and seal of the said Jurors upon their respective oaths of affirmations to the next orphan Court after the said Inquisition shall be holden. "
(p100) The return of an Inquisition held by George Hetich, Sheriff of Franklin County on the first day of September. Inst. on 137 acres & one quarter of land in Hamilton Twp adj land of William Withney? & others being the real estate of Wm McBriar late of the said Twp decd. ...held in pursuance of an order dated 4th September 1797...premises & divided the farm to and among the widow & children... or value the whole undivided...Land would not divide to and among the widow & children of the said dec.d without prejudice... valued the whole undivided at the sum of three hundred and thirty two pounds seven shillings lawful money of Penn whereupon the Court approved of the said return..."
PG104 Nov 1798 " On motion the Court allow David McBriar one year from last appeared Court for the pay. of the share of Andrew Taylor & his wife their share of William McBriar estate he paying Int. from last Court, and their share of the widow dower at her death."
Thanks to Debra Anderson for additional information.
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