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I Frantz Krick in Cumru Township in Berks County in Pennsylvania being old & Weak in my Body, But yet thanks be to god of good understanding & Memory, But having considered the Mortality of Mankind, I therefore do hereby make my last Will & Testament & Dispose of my Worldly Estate in Manner following:But in the first place, I Commend my Soul into the Hands of god & my Body to be Buried in a Christianlike manner into the Earth out of Which he was taken & that all my...

The Krick family is one of the most numerous and prosperous in the Schuylkill section of Berks County. The name has been a familiar one in that locality for a hundred and fifty years, associated invariably with good citizenship, thrift and integrity, its members in every generation having been jealous of their good repute and mindful of the honorable traditions of their ancestors. All of the land purchased by Frantz Kruck (as the name was originally spelled, also known as Francis Krick and...

From "The Barent Jacobsen Cool Family," Richard H. Benson, Newbury Street Press, Boston, 2001. Barent Jacobsen Cool sailed to New Amsterdam, possibly from Amsterdam as a sailor in late 1632 on the ship Soutberg, which arrived in April 1633 with 140 soldiers. At that time, New Amsterdam, now New York City, had a population of only 400 to 500 people. On June 8, 1633, he and six others signed a treaty with the Sickename Indians for purchasing land on the Connecticut River. The cost was recorded...

From online site, but references will books: William Bourne left an estate of about $1,814.65.  Will dated July 31st, 1826, probated Nov. 1826. Will book C, f508, Jessamine County, KY records. On July 27, 1827, Catherine Bourne, his widow, objected to the provisions of her husband's will and renounced the provisions contained in it. Will book D.h106, Jessamine County, KY. William Bourne, Willbook C, h508 left son Moses ($1.00), sons William and James (land) and rest of estate to be divided...

John D. Bourn is a native of Missouri and was born August 5 1850. His father, William Bourn, was born in Kentucky, but moved to Missouri in in an early day, where he was one of the leading farmers of his county. He was a Master Mason, a justice of the peace of Scotland county a number of years, a member of the Baptist Church almost from infancy, and died in that faith on the 12th of December, 1887. John D. Bourn is the third in a family of fourteen children named as follows-Eliza C., Ambers...

John J. Bourn, a well to do farmer and stock dealer of Scotland County, Missouri and a resident of Miller township, was born in Howard County, Missouri on September 17, 1836.  Son of John D. and Nancy Higbee Bourn.  It is thought that the father was a native of Fayette County, Kentucky.  He died in Scotland County, Missouri in the year 1878 at the age of 84 years.  He came from Lexington, Kentucky to Howard County at a very early date and was one of the counties early settlers.  In 1841 he...

In 1868, William Winston Dabney, recorded several wills in his possession to replace those destroyed when Richmond burned during the Civil War.Susanna, widow of the first Cornelius Dabney, (who died before May 1694 in New Kent Co., Virginia, his land would fall in Hanover when it was created) & __ AndersonHanover County Will Book I. (At Hanover Court House.) Page 632.In the name of God Amen I Susannah Anderson of St. Paul's Parish in the county of Hanover, widow being in perfect health...

Newlyweds in Taxi Escape Truck Load Regarding some of the incidents connected with the recent marriage of Miss Helen Clinger, of this city and Henry Lenser, of Cornplanter Hill, the Pennsylvania News has the following to say: Following the marriage of Miss Helen Clinger, clerk, division accountant’s office, Oil City, and Henry Lenser of Cornplanter Hill, former clerk in division engineer’s office, ensued an exciting chase. They left immediately for a wedding trip to Buffalo and Cleveland,...