July 7, 1807

NOTICE

All persons indebted to the estate of James McCoy, late of Fayette Township, Allegheny County, deceased, are requested to make immediate payment- and those having demands against said estate, to present their accounts properly attested for settlement.

Rachel McCoy, Administratix, July 7, 1807

December 20, 1814

ORPHAN’S COURT

Whereas William McCoy, Alexander McCoy, and Mary Schoolers, late Mary McCoy, presented their petition, stating that their father James McCoy, lately died intestate leaving a widow, Rachel, and issue eight children, to wit: William McCoy, John, James, Alexander, Hugh, Isaac, Elizabeth and Mary, since intermarried with William Schoolers, of whom Hugh and Isaac are still in their minority: and that the said intestate died seized in his demesne as of fee, and of and in a certain messuage situate in the Township of Fayette, in the county of Allegheny, adjoining lands of John M’Adow, William Turner, and John Short, containing about one hundred and fifteen acres and forty five perches, with allowances of six percent for roads, with the appurtenances, and praying the court to award an inquest to view the said premises, and make partition thereof, to and among the heirs and representatives of the same James McCoy, deceased, if the same can be so parted and divided, without prejudice to or spoiling the whole, then to value and appraise the same, and to make return thereof according to law. April 8, 1814, petition was read, and inquest awarded. May 13, 1814, writ of partition or valuation issued returnable to August term 1814, and executed, and property valued at $11.75 per acre, making in the whole $1268.02. November 17, 1814, on motion rule that the said heirs of James McCoy, deceased, shows cause at the next term, why the eldest should not take the said property at the valuation, and that notice be served on those in the county of Allegheny, or their guardians, and that public notice be published in the Gazette for four successive weeks.

I do certify the above to be a true transcript from the record. In testimony whereof (L.S.) I have here to set my hand and affixed this fifth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fourteen

E, Pentland, Clerk of Courts

Prothonotory’s Office, Dec. 5, 1814