Washington County wills

Index to Washington County, Pa., wills, 1781-1900
by Bob Closson; Mary Closson
Type:
Book; English
Publisher:
Apollo, PA (R.D. 2, Box 373-A, Apollo, PA 15613) : B. and M. Closson, [©1981]
Editions:
2 Editions
OCLC:
7786796
Related Subjects:
Washington County (Pa.) -- Genealogy. Wills -- Pennsylvania -- Washington County.

Abstracts of Washington County, Pennsylvania willbooks 1-5, 1776-1841
by Bob Closson; Mary Closson; Genealogical Record Group of Citizens Library.; Citizens Library (Washington, Pa.)
Type:
Book; English
Publisher:
Apollo, PA : Closson Press, ©1995.
ISBN:
155856196X 9781558561960
OCLC:
32895078
Related Subjects:
Washington County (Pa.) -- Genealogy. Wills -- Pennsylvania -- Washington County

Both of these books can be purchased at http://www.clossonpress.com/index.jsp . This is a publishing company in Apollo, PA. They have a wide variety of genealogy publications.

Register of Wills, located on the first floor of the Washington County PA courthouse. You can find:

Indexes to Office Records; Wills, Will Books (1781 to present); Administrators Bonds-aka Applications for Lettersl or Administrator's bonds, or Letter of Adm & Bond Docket; Orphan's Court Records (1781 to present); Partitions (1890 to present).

Even if your ancesor did not leave a will, there may be some other documentation that was created at the time of death. There may be an accounting of their estate, their minor children may have been appointed a guardian, etc. So don't get give up if there was no will. That just means you have to dig a little deeper.