George Latimer immigrated to Chester County, Pennsylvania from Ireland with his father, Arthur, and siblings in about 1736.
George married Margaret Potter 29 Dec 1757 at St. James Episcopal Church, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Their first child, a son Arthur, was named with George in George's father's will dated 2 Apr 1764 at Chester County, Pennsylvania. To George he bequeathed "a fether beed and Cloas" and to his grandson Arthur "my forged gridle or plank".
George and Margaret had five sons and two daughters who reached adulthood including:
- Arthur
- James
- George
- Thomas
- Robert
- Margaret
- Martha
George wrote his own will 1 Nov 1792 at Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, proved 19 Oct 1793, indicating George died prior to the 19th.
Will of George Latimer, Deceased, Westmoreland County (Pennsylvania). Register of Wills; Vol 1:108-9
"In the name of God, Amen, I George Latimer in the County of Westmoreland Province of Pennsylvania alhough labouring and under some indisposition of body yet being of sound and perfect mind and memory blessed be the Almighty God for the same do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament in manner and form following.
First in principle I resign my Soul with the utmost humility into the hands of Almighty God my Creator humbily hoping for a blessed Immortaity through the merits mediations of my Blessed Saviour and Redeemer Jesus Christ and my Body I desire may be decently buried at the discretion of my Executors and as for the temporal Estate as the Lord of his great goodness and mercy hath trusted me to be Steward of I give desire and dispose thereof as follows.
I give and bequeath unto my well beloved Wife Margaret one equal share of the whole of my estate with my five sons which remains after my two Daughters first receiving their proportions.
I further desire that when a division of my Estate shall be made that my Sons Arthur and James Latimer (page 109) shall give the sums of twenty pounds each to be equally divided between my Sons George, Thomas and Robert Lattimer to be out of said division to their full use and enjoyment of the same.
I further desire that my Daughters proportions are as follows, my Daughter Margaret to receive twenty shillings and, I bequeath unto my Daughter Martha her Mare and Saddle two cows and two calves her bed bedstead and bed clothes and a breakfast table to be provided for her. Her drawers I have no claim to, they being of her own providing.
The Lands at Kanetuckey (sic) and this I now live on to be kept for my family to live on, until they see cause to move and then to be sold to the best advantage. I likewise desire that all my lawful debts may be discharged likewise the stock of horses and cows that is now on the plantation be kept for the use of the family only that Horse which my Son James now rides I desire he may have it as his own property besides an equal share of the Estate and my will is that my Sons George, Thomas and Robert Lattimer to be kept to school until they have learned to read write and cypher fitting to keep their accounts which said schooling to be paid out of the whole of my estate and my desire is that the whole of my farming utensils may be kept for the Plantation and my carpenters tools likewise to be kept until my Sons divide their proportions then to be equally divided between my beloved Wife Margaret and her Children.
And if my family or any of them chuses to move to lay their money out for lands some other part of the country then my Estate to be divided as near as possible it can according to Quantity and Quality and equal proportions to my Wife to be at her disposal to be as good in Qualtity and Quality as theirs. But if my Wife should chuse to receive her part in money the same to be at her discretion.
I desire further that my beloved Margaret may have one bed bedstead and bedding thereto belonging so it stands.
I do hereby authorize and empower my well beloved son James Lattimer and Benjamin Lodge my Executors and administrators during the Minority of my said children. I do hereby revoke all other Wills by me formerly made and declare this wholly to be my last Will and Testament and do appoint my said loving Wife Margaret Lattimer, Benjamin Lodge and James Lattimer Executors thereof. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this first day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety two."
George Lattimer {seal}
Signed and sealed in the presence of Thomas Friend, Thomas Lattimer, George Lattimer
Recorded October 19, 1793.
George married Margaret Potter 29 Dec 1757 at St. James Episcopal Church, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Their first child, a son Arthur, was named with George in George's father's will dated 2 Apr 1764 at Chester County, Pennsylvania. To George he bequeathed "a fether beed and Cloas" and to his grandson Arthur "my forged gridle or plank".
George and Margaret had five sons and two daughters who reached adulthood including:
- Arthur
- James
- George
- Thomas
- Robert
- Margaret
- Martha
George wrote his own will 1 Nov 1792 at Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, proved 19 Oct 1793, indicating George died prior to the 19th.
Will of George Latimer, Deceased, Westmoreland County (Pennsylvania). Register of Wills; Vol 1:108-9
"In the name of God, Amen, I George Latimer in the County of Westmoreland Province of Pennsylvania alhough labouring and under some indisposition of body yet being of sound and perfect mind and memory blessed be the Almighty God for the same do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament in manner and form following.
First in principle I resign my Soul with the utmost humility into the hands of Almighty God my Creator humbily hoping for a blessed Immortaity through the merits mediations of my Blessed Saviour and Redeemer Jesus Christ and my Body I desire may be decently buried at the discretion of my Executors and as for the temporal Estate as the Lord of his great goodness and mercy hath trusted me to be Steward of I give desire and dispose thereof as follows.
I give and bequeath unto my well beloved Wife Margaret one equal share of the whole of my estate with my five sons which remains after my two Daughters first receiving their proportions.
I further desire that when a division of my Estate shall be made that my Sons Arthur and James Latimer (page 109) shall give the sums of twenty pounds each to be equally divided between my Sons George, Thomas and Robert Lattimer to be out of said division to their full use and enjoyment of the same.
I further desire that my Daughters proportions are as follows, my Daughter Margaret to receive twenty shillings and, I bequeath unto my Daughter Martha her Mare and Saddle two cows and two calves her bed bedstead and bed clothes and a breakfast table to be provided for her. Her drawers I have no claim to, they being of her own providing.
The Lands at Kanetuckey (sic) and this I now live on to be kept for my family to live on, until they see cause to move and then to be sold to the best advantage. I likewise desire that all my lawful debts may be discharged likewise the stock of horses and cows that is now on the plantation be kept for the use of the family only that Horse which my Son James now rides I desire he may have it as his own property besides an equal share of the Estate and my will is that my Sons George, Thomas and Robert Lattimer to be kept to school until they have learned to read write and cypher fitting to keep their accounts which said schooling to be paid out of the whole of my estate and my desire is that the whole of my farming utensils may be kept for the Plantation and my carpenters tools likewise to be kept until my Sons divide their proportions then to be equally divided between my beloved Wife Margaret and her Children.
And if my family or any of them chuses to move to lay their money out for lands some other part of the country then my Estate to be divided as near as possible it can according to Quantity and Quality and equal proportions to my Wife to be at her disposal to be as good in Qualtity and Quality as theirs. But if my Wife should chuse to receive her part in money the same to be at her discretion.
I desire further that my beloved Margaret may have one bed bedstead and bedding thereto belonging so it stands.
I do hereby authorize and empower my well beloved son James Lattimer and Benjamin Lodge my Executors and administrators during the Minority of my said children. I do hereby revoke all other Wills by me formerly made and declare this wholly to be my last Will and Testament and do appoint my said loving Wife Margaret Lattimer, Benjamin Lodge and James Lattimer Executors thereof. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this first day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety two."
George Lattimer {seal}
Signed and sealed in the presence of Thomas Friend, Thomas Lattimer, George Lattimer
Recorded October 19, 1793.
George Latimer immigrated to Chester County, Pennsylvania from Ireland with his father, Arthur, and siblings in about 1736.
George married Margaret Potter 29 Dec 1757 at St. James Episcopal Church, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Their first child, a son Arthur, was named with George in George's father's will dated 2 Apr 1764 at Chester County, Pennsylvania. To George he bequeathed "a fether beed and Cloas" and to his grandson Arthur "my forged gridle or plank".
George and Margaret had five sons and two daughters who reached adulthood including:
- Arthur
- James
- George
- Thomas
- Robert
- Margaret
- Martha
George wrote his own will 1 Nov 1792 at Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, proved 19 Oct 1793, indicating George died prior to the 19th.
Will of George Latimer, Deceased, Westmoreland County (Pennsylvania). Register of Wills; Vol 1:108-9
"In the name of God, Amen, I George Latimer in the County of Westmoreland Province of Pennsylvania alhough labouring and under some indisposition of body yet being of sound and perfect mind and memory blessed be the Almighty God for the same do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament in manner and form following.
First in principle I resign my Soul with the utmost humility into the hands of Almighty God my Creator humbily hoping for a blessed Immortaity through the merits mediations of my Blessed Saviour and Redeemer Jesus Christ and my Body I desire may be decently buried at the discretion of my Executors and as for the temporal Estate as the Lord of his great goodness and mercy hath trusted me to be Steward of I give desire and dispose thereof as follows.
I give and bequeath unto my well beloved Wife Margaret one equal share of the whole of my estate with my five sons which remains after my two Daughters first receiving their proportions.
I further desire that when a division of my Estate shall be made that my Sons Arthur and James Latimer (page 109) shall give the sums of twenty pounds each to be equally divided between my Sons George, Thomas and Robert Lattimer to be out of said division to their full use and enjoyment of the same.
I further desire that my Daughters proportions are as follows, my Daughter Margaret to receive twenty shillings and, I bequeath unto my Daughter Martha her Mare and Saddle two cows and two calves her bed bedstead and bed clothes and a breakfast table to be provided for her. Her drawers I have no claim to, they being of her own providing.
The Lands at Kanetuckey (sic) and this I now live on to be kept for my family to live on, until they see cause to move and then to be sold to the best advantage. I likewise desire that all my lawful debts may be discharged likewise the stock of horses and cows that is now on the plantation be kept for the use of the family only that Horse which my Son James now rides I desire he may have it as his own property besides an equal share of the Estate and my will is that my Sons George, Thomas and Robert Lattimer to be kept to school until they have learned to read write and cypher fitting to keep their accounts which said schooling to be paid out of the whole of my estate and my desire is that the whole of my farming utensils may be kept for the Plantation and my carpenters tools likewise to be kept until my Sons divide their proportions then to be equally divided between my beloved Wife Margaret and her Children.
And if my family or any of them chuses to move to lay their money out for lands some other part of the country then my Estate to be divided as near as possible it can according to Quantity and Quality and equal proportions to my Wife to be at her disposal to be as good in Qualtity and Quality as theirs. But if my Wife should chuse to receive her part in money the same to be at her discretion.
I desire further that my beloved Margaret may have one bed bedstead and bedding thereto belonging so it stands.
I do hereby authorize and empower my well beloved son James Lattimer and Benjamin Lodge my Executors and administrators during the Minority of my said children. I do hereby revoke all other Wills by me formerly made and declare this wholly to be my last Will and Testament and do appoint my said loving Wife Margaret Lattimer, Benjamin Lodge and James Lattimer Executors thereof. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this first day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety two."
George Lattimer {seal}
Signed and sealed in the presence of Thomas Friend, Thomas Lattimer, George Lattimer
Recorded October 19, 1793.
George married Margaret Potter 29 Dec 1757 at St. James Episcopal Church, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Their first child, a son Arthur, was named with George in George's father's will dated 2 Apr 1764 at Chester County, Pennsylvania. To George he bequeathed "a fether beed and Cloas" and to his grandson Arthur "my forged gridle or plank".
George and Margaret had five sons and two daughters who reached adulthood including:
- Arthur
- James
- George
- Thomas
- Robert
- Margaret
- Martha
George wrote his own will 1 Nov 1792 at Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, proved 19 Oct 1793, indicating George died prior to the 19th.
Will of George Latimer, Deceased, Westmoreland County (Pennsylvania). Register of Wills; Vol 1:108-9
"In the name of God, Amen, I George Latimer in the County of Westmoreland Province of Pennsylvania alhough labouring and under some indisposition of body yet being of sound and perfect mind and memory blessed be the Almighty God for the same do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament in manner and form following.
First in principle I resign my Soul with the utmost humility into the hands of Almighty God my Creator humbily hoping for a blessed Immortaity through the merits mediations of my Blessed Saviour and Redeemer Jesus Christ and my Body I desire may be decently buried at the discretion of my Executors and as for the temporal Estate as the Lord of his great goodness and mercy hath trusted me to be Steward of I give desire and dispose thereof as follows.
I give and bequeath unto my well beloved Wife Margaret one equal share of the whole of my estate with my five sons which remains after my two Daughters first receiving their proportions.
I further desire that when a division of my Estate shall be made that my Sons Arthur and James Latimer (page 109) shall give the sums of twenty pounds each to be equally divided between my Sons George, Thomas and Robert Lattimer to be out of said division to their full use and enjoyment of the same.
I further desire that my Daughters proportions are as follows, my Daughter Margaret to receive twenty shillings and, I bequeath unto my Daughter Martha her Mare and Saddle two cows and two calves her bed bedstead and bed clothes and a breakfast table to be provided for her. Her drawers I have no claim to, they being of her own providing.
The Lands at Kanetuckey (sic) and this I now live on to be kept for my family to live on, until they see cause to move and then to be sold to the best advantage. I likewise desire that all my lawful debts may be discharged likewise the stock of horses and cows that is now on the plantation be kept for the use of the family only that Horse which my Son James now rides I desire he may have it as his own property besides an equal share of the Estate and my will is that my Sons George, Thomas and Robert Lattimer to be kept to school until they have learned to read write and cypher fitting to keep their accounts which said schooling to be paid out of the whole of my estate and my desire is that the whole of my farming utensils may be kept for the Plantation and my carpenters tools likewise to be kept until my Sons divide their proportions then to be equally divided between my beloved Wife Margaret and her Children.
And if my family or any of them chuses to move to lay their money out for lands some other part of the country then my Estate to be divided as near as possible it can according to Quantity and Quality and equal proportions to my Wife to be at her disposal to be as good in Qualtity and Quality as theirs. But if my Wife should chuse to receive her part in money the same to be at her discretion.
I desire further that my beloved Margaret may have one bed bedstead and bedding thereto belonging so it stands.
I do hereby authorize and empower my well beloved son James Lattimer and Benjamin Lodge my Executors and administrators during the Minority of my said children. I do hereby revoke all other Wills by me formerly made and declare this wholly to be my last Will and Testament and do appoint my said loving Wife Margaret Lattimer, Benjamin Lodge and James Lattimer Executors thereof. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this first day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety two."
George Lattimer {seal}
Signed and sealed in the presence of Thomas Friend, Thomas Lattimer, George Lattimer
Recorded October 19, 1793.
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