Here is the will for Thomas Caster/Carter
Will of Thomas Caster Allen County Name in Printed records at Allen County
Library shows "Carter"
Thomas Caster of Allen County in the State of Indiana do make and publish
this my last will and testament hereby revoking and making void all former
Wills by me at any time heretofore made.
First, I direct that my body be decently interred and that my funeral be
conducted in a manner corresponding with my estate and situated in life and
as to such worldly estate as it has pleased God to intrust me with I dispose
of the same in the following manner to wit:
I direct first that all just debts and funeral expenses be paid as soon after
my decease as possible out of the first monies that shall come to the hands
of my executers from any portion of my estate real or personal. I also
direct that a fair valuation or appraisement be made by three disinterested
neighbors of all my said estate including my household furniture and after
being signed with their names that a copy of the same be given to each of my
executers. I also direct that my two sons, James and William, shall have the
land now belonging to me to be equally divided between them with a strait
line drawn from the Canal feeder to west back line so as to give each one an
equal number of acres, and I direct that James my son shall have the lower
south and William my son shall have the upper north and I also direct that my
two sons James an William shall pay all just debts and claims or demands that
is now or may be against me when deceased and I also direct that my two sons
Jame and William each one (pay) an equal share of the debts or lawful claims
that is now or may be against me when deceased. I also direct that Jacob my
son shall have one hundred dollars, and direct also that Jane my daughter
shall (Have) one hundred dollars. I also direct that Crawford my son shall
have one hundred dollars, to be paid to them by James and William, when they
arrive at the age of twenty one years. I also direct that my son Vince shall
have fifty dollars to be paid to him at the end of two years after my death
by sons James and William. I also direct that Rachel my daughter shall have
ten dollars to be paid to her in one year after my death by sons James and
William. I also direct that Maria my daughter shall have one hundred dollars
to be paid to her as follows, to wit: fifty dollars to be paid to her in one
year after my death, and fifty dollars to be paid to her in one year after
that time, to be paid by my sons James and William. It is my will that
whatsoever I have presented to Maria now that she shall have it exclusive of
what I have granted to her in this last will. It is my will that my daughter
Jane shall have one bed and bedding at my death, the bed formerly known as
her Mother's bed.
It is my will and I direct that all the remainder of my personal property
after my death that it shall be equally divided between my sons James and
William. It is my will that Eliabeth my daughter shall have ten dollars paid
to her by my two sons James and William when demanded. Provided always that
the true meaning of this will and testament is that my real estate that is
now willed to my two sons shall not nor cannot be conveyed away to any
persons until the conditions of this will is compiled with or otherwise
freehold security be given to said heirs in a bond of five hundred dollars
each for payment of said heirs as this will directs.
I hereby make and ordain my worthy and esteemed sons, James and William
Caster executers of this my last will and testament. In Witness Whereof, I,
Thomas Caster, the Testater have set hereinto my hand and seal this the
twelfth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and thirty four.
Thomas (His X Mark) Caster
Signed, sealed, published and recorded by the above named Thomas Caster as
his last will and testament in the presence of each other.
Philip(X) Klinger, Jermiah (X) Hudson and ? Swartz
State of Indiana, Allen County, sct,
Be it remembered that on the 20th day of June 1835 personally came before me,
Allen Hamilton, Clerk of the Probate Court of hte County of Allen, Phillip
Klinger, Of lawful age and on his solemn oath that he said Thomas Caster did
sign, seal, publish and declare the within as his last will and testament,
that he was at the time of making and publishing the same of sound mind
memory and understanding; that he the said Klinger signed the will as one of
the Witnesses in the presence of said Caster and at his request. Philip (him
X mark) Klinger
Sworn to and subscribed before me at my office 20th June 1835.
Allen Hamilton, Clerk P.C.