At an Orphans Court held at Reading in and for Berks county on the 9th day of January, 1824, before the Honorable Robert Porter, Esq., President, and his associate, Gabriel Heister, Esq.
Upon petition of John DeTurk and Samuel Kerst, administrators of the estate of John Neikirch, late of Exeter township, Berks county, yeoman, deceased, who died intestate.
Setting forth that the said intestate left a widow and issue six children, namely: Nelly [Elenor/Helena], Elizabeth, Catharine, Harriette[Henrietta], George and John, five of whom are yet in their minority; that the personal estate of the said deceased is insufficient for the payment of his debts, as by the account therewith produced appears, and that the said intestate died seized in his demesne as of fee, of and in a certain messuage tenement and tract of land, situate in Robeson township, Berks co, containing 46 acres, more or less, adjoining lands of Ezekiel Beard, __ Clevenstine and others. And therefore praying the court to grant them an order for the sale of the said property for the payment of the debts of the said intestate. Wherefore it is ordered by the court here, upon due proof and considerations had of the premises, that the said John Deturk and Samuel Kerst, administrators as aforesaid, do on Friday the 13th day of February next, at one o'clock in the afternoon that day at the house of John Thompson, innkeeper in Robeson Twp, expose the above described property to sale, by public vendue or outcry, and sell the same for the purposed in said petition set forth, they to have liberty to adjourn said sale as to time and place of sale according to law, and to make a report of their proceedings herein, to our next stated Orphans Court on the 9th day of April next.
By order of the Court,
Matthias Richards, Clk o Court
John died on 11/12/1822 leaving widow Mary (KERST) NEIKIRK and 6 children. He had land in Robeson which had to be sold for debts.
No outcome is shown here and is probably in the Deeds office.
Submitted by Diana.
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