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As you all say things have been pretty quiet so will post something 
of interest to the Balthazar researchers, Daniel Dehart's will.

"I, Daniel Dehart of the Township of Whitby in the County of York, 
Home District and Provience of Canada do make and publish this, my 
last will and testament in manner following.  (That is to say) It is 
my will and I do hereby order and direct my Executors hereinafter 
named to pay my just debts with my funeral charges and the expenses 
of settling my estate.

Item:  I give and bequeath unto my beloved wife Elizabeth Dehart all 
the residue and remainder of my personal estate after my Debts are 
paid, to be it her own disposal and also the use of all my real 
estate for her support during the term of her natural life.

Item:  I give and bequeath unto my sons (viz) John Dehart, Daniel 
Dehart, Jr. and Jacob Dehart and my daughter Sophia Cook, the sum of 
five Shillings Currency each; I having heretofore given each of them 
fify acres of land.

Item:  I give and bequeath unto the heirs of Lucinda Mulloy the sum 
of five Shillings Currency.  She also having had fifty acres of my 
land.

Item:  I give and divise unto my other children (viz) Elizabeth 
Coolidge, Polly Saunders and Thomas Dehart their heirs and assigns 
the farm I now live on, being composed of the South East part of Lot 
No. thirty five in the broken front of the Township of Whitby 
aforesaid containing by admeasurement fifty acres of land be the same 
more or less to be divided equally between them.  Share and share 
alike to be divided immediately after the death of my widow.

Lastly, I hereby nominate, constitute and appoint my son Jacob Dehart 
and Nicholas Austin both of the Township of Pickering in the County, 
District andd Province aforesaid farmers as Executors of this my last 
will and testament, hereby revoking all former wills by me made.

In withness whereof I do hereunto set my hand and seal this 
fourteenth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight 
hundred and forty two.

Signed, sealed, published and declared by the above named Daniel 
Dehart to be his last will and testament in presence of us who have 
subscribed our names as withnesses thereof in the presence of the 
testator.

Signed: Nicholas Dehart          Signed:    Daniel Dehart  
        Richard Collins
        Nicholas Dehart, Jun."