Executor'S Deed Pennsylvania: Fill & Download for Free

This is going to be limited to U.S. law and it will be state-law specific, but the rules imposed in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania re not uncommon and most, if not all, of the other states of the Union do this or something similar. Please remember that generally banks only allow the persons on the safe deposit box account access to it: they want to have your signature on file for that box in advance to compare it. You also need the key. Upon being informed of the death of the depositor the bank is not going to let just anyone in to see that box. If the box was rented by a husband and wife the surviving spouse still has access to the box and no inventory is required. In a case where the box is not rented by a husband and wife, and/or where neither spouse is alive, then a date and time must be set up for an agent of the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue to be present; the box will then be opened and inventoried by a representative of the decedent’s estate (e.g., the executor under a will) with the Revenue Department agent present. The only exception to this is where the executor or administrator is there to get only a copy of a will and/or of a cemetery deed. In that case, however, a bank employee must be present when the box is opened and see that only those documents are removed from the box, and the bank must report that to the Commonwealth.

What are the real reasons for the hatred expressed by some Western powers against Serbs and Serbia?This is a difficult question because the real reasons are mired in smokes of propaganda, political correctness, philosophical diatribes, and so on.About six millions of Serbs live in Serbia proper; another two million in other parts of the Western Balkans, and between two and four millions in diaspora.Shall we say ten to twelve millions!So, how come such a small and unimportant ethnic group managed to draw on itself an almost universal ire.If USA and similar elephants look for enemies, ethnic groups and countries to hate, attack, and destroy, they have Russians and Russian Federation - their "worthy enemy" as Dustin Hoffmann would say in that children movie for adults!Or slanted eye Chinese - lovers of bat soup and producers of artificially created viruses with unlimited help of the archvillain, Bill Gates!!!Or, maybe, Vietnamese who lost more than one million people but produced some serious epidemics of indigestion on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue!?!Well, in theory, the answer is simple:Serbs are those ugly peasant uneducated wild bunch who fought the Ottoman Empire for 500 years and finally managed to chase out of Europe those noble humanitarians famous for impaling their Serbian enemies and stealing their boys to be converted to yanissaries!You see, geopolitically, weak Turkey means strong Russia which means weak Britain which means Crimean war which means Russian Empire stopped supporting Serbia and started supporting Bulgaria which grateful Bulgarians repaid in two world wars…Complicated?Yes!So, those same Serbs, during brief interludes in fighting with Turks, Bulgars, and dancing around Great Powers, sent their best sons to educate themselves in the best universities of Europe.They were, also, not slightly, confused when their first king after five hundred years of Turkish occupation, one King Milan Obrenović, decided to become Austrian spy; to become a world-wide expert in arts, mainly as in paintings, loosing enormous amounts of money in various casinoes and screwing all females in royal reach.Including one important court lady, Draga Mašin.His Queen, Natalija, was not, shall we say, amused.Anyhow, after scr**ing not just females of the species but most of his own people he abandoned his throne to his son, Aleksandar, who promptly fell in love and married the aforementioned Draga.Maybe the father tried and recommended to his son!Anyhow, the queen get hysterically pregnant; the pro-austrian policy continued, and, finally, the group of mafiosi called The Black Hand, murdered the royal pair in a most attrocious manner during the May coup of 1903.They were all officers who gave their oath to that same king!They butchered the pair and some noble officer distinguished himself by sticking his sabre in the private parts of the queen.Then they threw them from the first floor of the palace in the garden below.Austrian ambassador whose residence was opposite came across to ask kindly if the bodies can be removed!!!Can you now start to fathom where this ire against the Serbs originates.Eleven years later this same group of maniacs arranged for the murder of Archduke Ferdinand.Popularity of Serbs reached unbelievable and unwanted heights.Whole world went to war!Honest to God!All because of those pesky Serbs!!!Those empires were building hundreds of dreadnaughts because all royal heads of Europe, cousins of Queen Victoria, liked to play with toy boats!They even declared war to each other in a very polite way as befits such a nice and cosy family.Anyhow, Serbs won (again!) by loosing one third of the population (every second adult male lost his life)!!!Then those same Europeans pushed bits and pieces of Austro-Hungarian Empire to Serbs.So, overnight, provinces of Slovenia and Croatia and occupied Bosnia suddenly turned from enemies to allies which was very nice because they were not requested to pay war reparations and, to add insult to injury, those genocidal, pesky and primitive Serbian peasants chased away those nice, cultured and innocent Italians from the Dalmatian coast so that the Roman province of Dalmatia can be united with Croatia proper were it belongs.Since no good deed goes unpunished, some Croatians returned the favour by killing and expelling and converting to catholicism more than a million Serbs in 1941–1945 and after 1991.Now, most of this is on a local level - sort of Little Balkans House of Horrors!But one J. B. Tito came to power.A high ranking Cominterna executive and executor.Excellently trained by Putin's alma mater!He ran rings around the Western Powers and Stalin!His only mistake was that he was not a Serb!He helped any and every anti-colonial and anti-capitalist movement around from A (Albania) to Z (Zimbabwe).He even invented and founded the Non-Alignment movement so that those eagle-eyed shady people from Langley don't fathom out that we are all red under the skin (a.k.a. communists!!!).Still, all of the world came to his funeral to pay its respects to the old master and to ensure that he is really dead and burried.In his testament he expressed his wish to be burried in his Kuća cveća (House of Flowers) and Serbs, being masochists, did just that so that they can be reminded on a daily basis who effed them for 40 years.Some years later Serbs genocided themselves from Croatia, better part of Bosnia, Kosmet and some other not so important pieces of geography!Of course, popularity of Serbs among the German-speaking peoples only went up after two world wars!!!And they returned the favour with typical German precision and thoroughness.

OK now, who wants to hear the REAL story of Lee’s slave raid, and not one served up by a Lee apologist? Not one colored by the rose-tinted lenses of yesteryear, mixed with the scent of mimosas in the moonlight, and gently washed by the gentle voices of the darkies playing banjo spirituals on a warm summer night air - you know, “Gone With the Wind” stuff. The real story…Let’s get at the question at hand - the “Great Slave Raid”, conducted over the summer of 1863, through the states of Virginia, West Virginia and Pennsylvania, by the Army of Northern Virginia, which was under the command of ROBERT EDWARD LEE.Got you attention? Good, because we have some news for people..If anyone really wants to read this whole thing – and I wouldn’t blame you if you didn’t (it’s long), please understand that the wealth of evidence indicates that MANY high placed officers (including Lee’s second in command, and several division commanders) are – by their very words - linked to the slave raid,ANY statement denying that Lee was unaware of these kidnappings unfortunately will make Lee look like some stupid, out-of-touch dullard who hadn’t any clue to what his senior officers were doing.But I don’t believe Lee was a dullard, so the ONLY other possibility is that Lee was totally complicit in virtually all aspects of the slave raid activities.Despite forthcoming protests, there can be no other possible explanations: either Lee was totally ignorant of the kidnappings, or he was in it up to his neck.Based on what I’m reporting, not only did the ANV know what was happening, but so did MOST OF PENNSYLVANIA – in fact the ANV was up to their necks in it, and it WAS NOT just a few bad apple, Lee was definitely involved.It was kidnapping on an industrial scale. There are so many references (dozens, including letters by Confederate soldiers, NCOs, and HIGH RANKING officers, including LONGSTREET, STUART, McLAWS, PICKETT, EARLY, RODES, IMBODEN, MOSBY, JENKINS and SORRELL) talking about rounding up blacks during Lee’s invasion, and sending the poor souls south, it becomes a quite the challenge to sort them all out without actually writing a book. In fact, there are so many CONFEDERATE accounts of rounding up blacks that one begins to realize that African kidnappings were one of the Confederate objectives of the raid into Pennsylvania.I want to lead off this next portion of this discourse with some words spoken by high ranking Confederation officers, just so these words are brought up first, and won’t get buried in the avalanche that will demonstrate that Mr. Mathews’ post as –shall we say - are skewed to being an apologist for Lee.From David G. Smith, "Race and Retaliation: The Capture of African Americans During the Gettysburg Campaign," part of Virginia's Civil War, edited by Peter Wallenstein and Bertram Wyatt-Brown.“Lee issued orders against the indiscriminate destruction of civilian property, but made no mention of seizing African Americans, whether free or former slaves.”However “In his essay, Smith points out that diaries, letters and even official reports from every division in Lee's army mention Confederates rounding up African Americans and holding them with the army. The practice was tolerated—when not actively encouraged—by officers at all levels of the army. Some, in fact, saw it as not only justified, but a legitimate tactic to meet the Confederacy's military objectives.”Smith quotes a private letter to his wife from Major General Lafayette McLaws, whose division would bear the brunt of the action on the assault on the Peach Orchard on the second day at Gettysburg. Marching north into Maryland and Pennsylvania with his division, McLaws wrote:“It is reported that our army will not be allowed to plunder and rob in Pennsylvania, which is all very well, but it would be better not to publish it as we have received provocation enough to burn and take and destroy, property of all kids and even the men, women & children along out whole border.In every instance where we have even threatened retaliation, the enemy have given [way]—I am strongly in favor of trying it the very first chance we get.”In McLaws' view, the seizure of "even the men, women & children" was both justified as moral retribution and as an intentional escalation of tactics.“McLaws' corps commander was Longstreet, the most senior of Lee's officers and effectively the second-in-command of the Army of Northern Virginia. Longstreet acknowledged the practice of seizing (black) civilians and accommodated it. In sending orders to George Pickett, whose corps was bringing up the rear of the army, Longstreet, writing through his adjutant, G. Moxley Sorrel, sent word on July 1—the day the two armies first engaged each other—to move his troops toward Gettysburg. In closing he added, "The captured contrabands had better be brought along with you for further disposition.""Further disposition" here refers to imprisonment, auction, enslavement, and (often) severe punishment at the hands of a former-and-once-again master.”“McLaws' letter and the thirteen words closing Longstreet's order are damning, in that they show full well that the seizure and abduction of African Americans was, if not written policy, widely tolerated and made allowance for, even at the highest levels of the Confederate command structure. McLaws was a division commander, and Longstreet was second-in-command; while their words do not prove Lee knew and approved of this practice, it's hard to imagine he was unaware of it, and there's no evidence that he publicly objected to it, or made any effort to curtail it. My intent here is not to single out either McLaws or Longstreet alone for condemnation—the de facto policy did not originate with either—but to demonstrate that the forcible abduction of free African Americans and escaped slaves was known and tolerated throughout the Confederate army, from the lowest private to the most senior generals.”“During the Gettysburg Campaign, soldiers in the Army of Northern Virginia systematically rounded up free blacks and escaped slaves as they marched north into Maryland and Pennsylvania. Men, women and children were all swept up and brought along with the army as it moved north, and carried back into Virginia during the army's retreat after the battle. While specific numbers cannot be known, Smith argues that the total may have been over a thousand African Americans. Once back in Confederate-held territory, they were returned to their former owners, sold at auction or imprisoned” (David G. Smith, "Race and Retaliation: The Capture of African Americans During the Gettysburg Campaign," part of Virginia's Civil War, edited by Peter Wallenstein and Bertram Wyatt-Brown).”Let’s start with this - Lee had no love for blacks –although I can find no record that he purchased any slaves, he did however own many through inheritance and marriage, and it is documented that he had some of them whipped:“Events did not permit Lee the luxury of dealing with slavery in such detached terms. His father-in-law, George Washington Parke Custis, died in October 1857, having designated Lee as the executor of his estate. Taking a leave of absence from his regiment, Lee found both the will and the estate a tangled mess, not the least because Custis had stipulated that his slaves were "to be emancipated by my executors in such manner as to my executors may seem most expedient and proper." He further stipulated for "the said emancipation to be accomplished in not exceeding five years from the time of my decease." To accomplish that, Lee had to satisfy Custis's substantial debts and fund several benefactions to Lee's own children, which could only be created by overhauling the management of the Custis estates and, according to an anonymous letter critical of Lee and published in the New-York Tribune on June 24, 1859, keeping the slaves "harder at work than ever," with "no time given them" for "making a little now and then for themselves, as they were allowed to do during Mr. Custis's life." The slave population, especially at Arlington, balked at Lee's new discipline, especially since a number were convinced that Custis had provided in his will for their immediate freedom. In a letter to A. E. S. Keese, dated April 28, 1858, Lee described how three of the Arlington slaves had "refused to obey my orders, & said that they were as free as I was," and attempted to run away. They were arrested in Maryland, he later told his son George Washington Custis Lee, "making their way to Pennsylvania," and Lee, at least according to a newspaper report, ordered them whipped and hired out.”The fact that he had some of them whipped comes from another independent source:Reference #2:“Lee, as executor of Custis' will and supervisor of Custis’ estates, drove his new-found labor force hard to lift those estates from debt. Concerned that the endeavor might take longer than the five years stipulated, Lee petitioned state courts to extend his control of enslaved people.The Custis bondspeople, aware of their former owner’s intent, resisted Lee’s efforts to enforce stricter work discipline. Resentment resulted in escape attempts. In 1859 Wesley Norris, his sister Mary, and their cousin, George Parks, escaped to Maryland where they were captured and returned to Arlington.In an 1866 account, Norris recalled,[W]e were immediately taken before Gen. Lee, who demanded the reason why we ran away; we frankly told him that we considered ourselves free; he then told us he would teach us a lesson we never would forget; he then ordered us to the barn, where, in his presence, we were tied firmly to posts by a Mr. Gwin, our overseer, who was ordered by Gen. Lee to strip us to the waist and give us fifty lashes each, excepting my sister, who received but twenty; we were accordingly stripped to the skin by the overseer, who, however, had sufficient humanity to decline whipping us; accordingly Dick Williams, a county constable, was called in, who gave us the number of lashes ordered; Gen. Lee, in the meantime, stood by, and frequently enjoined Williams to lay it on well, an injunction which he did not fail to heed; not satisfied with simply lacerating our naked flesh, Gen. Lee then ordered the overseer to thoroughly wash our backs with brine, which was done.”I believe another Quora contributor provide several quotes attributed to Lee’s attitude to black Americans, but it appears that someone has had this post deleted.Again, the sheer volume of first-hand accounts pertaining to the enslavement of blacks during the Pennsylvania raid of 1863, is a bit intimidating, and not easy to put together in a short period of time.June 15, 1863.Jemima Cree also witnessed kidnappings, which she communicated to her husband, who was in Pittsburgh on business. “In her letter of June 15 she complained of the rebel actions and described her efforts to free an employee. ‘“This morning among the first news I heard was that they had been scouting around, gathering up our Darkies, and that they had Mag down on the court house pavement. I got my ‘fixens’ on, and started down, and there were about 25 women and children, with Mag and Fannie. I interceded for Mag, told them she was free born, etc. The man said he could do nothing, he was acting according to orders. As they were just ready to start, I had to leave; if I could have had time to have seen the General, I might have got her off. Fannie being contraband, we could do nothing about her.’ The latter statement suggests that the Confederates were under orders to round up contrabands, but simply seized blacks irrespective of status. Mrs. Cree then witnessed the hapless victims marched off. ‘They took up all they could find, even little children, whom they had to carry on horseback before them. All who could get there fled to the woods, and many who were wise are hid in the houses of their employers.’June 16, 1863On June 16, shortly after Confederate cavalry had occupied Chambersburg, the Southern horsemen were seen “scouring” the surrounding fields and countryside for not only horses, but African-Americans. O! How it grated on our hearts to have to sit quietly and look at such brutal deeds–I saw no men among the contrabands–all women and children. Some of the colored people who were raised here were taken along–I sat on the front step as they were driven by just like we would drive cattle. Some laughed and seemed not to care–but nearly all hung their heads.” [The Cormany Diaries: A Northern Family in the Civil War, pages 329-330]. [2] In nearby Mercersburg, Dr. Philip Schaff watched as a group of Confederate guerrillas, known as McNeill’s Rangers, “came to town on a regular slave-hunt, which presented the worst spectacle I ever saw in this war.” The Southerners threatened to “burn down every house which harbored a fugitive slave, and did not deliver him up within twenty minutes.” A subsequent search of the town turned up “several contrabands, among them a woman with two little children.” To Schaff, it was a “most pitiful sight, sufficient to settle the slavery question for every humane mind.” [3][1] Joseph C.G. Kennedy, Population of the United States in 1860; Compiled from the Original Returns of the Eighth Census, (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1864), 412, [WEB].[2] Rachel Cormany, “Rachel Cormany Diary, 1863,” Valley of the Shadow Project, [WEB]; Franklin Repository, Chambersburg, PA, July 8, 1863, Valley of the Shadow Project, [WEB]; Jacob Hoke, The Great Invasion of 1863: Or, General Lee in Pennsylvania, (Dayton, OH: W. J. Shuey, 1887), 107-108, [WEB];[3] Philip Schaff Diary, June 16-19, June 25-27, 1863, in The Woman’s Club of Mercersburg, Old Mercersburg, (New York  The Frank Allaben Genealogical Company, 1912), 163-165, [WEB]; Ted Alexander, “‘A Regular Slave Hunt’: The Army of Northern Virginia and Black Civilians in the Gettysburg Campaign,” North & South 4, no. 7 (September 2001): 82–88, [WEB]; Steve French, Imboden’s Brigade in the Gettysburg Campaign, (Hedgesville, WV: Steve French, 2008), 63-64, [WEB]; Captain John H. McNeill’s group of partisan rangers was temporarily attached to Brig. Gen. John D. Imboden’s command during the Gettysburg Campaign. See U.S. War Department. War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1899), Series I, vol. 27, pt 2:291, [WEB].June 16, 1863From Pete Vermilyea:“The best-known incident in which the Confederate army captured blacks occurred on the afternoon of June 16 in Greencastle, Pennsylvania, twenty-five miles southwest of Gettysburg. Between thirty and forty black women and children who had been captured at Chambersburg were brought into town in wagons. A Confederate chaplain and four soldiers guarded this caravan. As the wagons came through the town, the residents surprised the guards, disarmed them and locked them in the town’s jail. The captives were freed. When Jenkins received word of this, he demanded $50,000 in compensation for the blacks, who he claimed were his property. The town leaders refused, prompting Jenkins to threaten to return in two hours to burn the town. After Jenkins rode out of town, fourteen of the blacks whom the townspeople freed met with the town leaders and offered to give themselves up to Jenkins to spare the town. The town leaders refused their offer, and the town ended up being spared as Jenkins never returned. Despite the happy ending in Greencastle, no less than fifty blacks from the Adams County area ended up on the auction blocks of the southern slave markets, brought south while ‘bound with ropes’ as ‘the children were mounted in front or behind the rebels on their horses.’ It seems likely that most of the kidnappings were committed by those units operating either in the van of Lee’s invasion, like Jenkins’ cavalry, or those under quasi-independent command like ‘Hanse’ McNeill’s Partisan Rangers who served with John Imboden’s cavalry. [Ibid.] The local newspapers were not much concerned about the plight of these African-Americans–at least not as much concerned as they were about the property of their white citizens–but they did report what they found out. “On June 23, the Adams Sentinel reported: ‘[The Rebels] took possession of Hagerstown on Monday of last week. They remained until Wednesday afternoon… They carried off with them some horses and quite a number of colored persons.”June 18, 1863Chambersburg businessman William Heyser noted in his diary that when the rebels left town on June 18 they took with them ‘about 250 colored people…into bondage.’ ” [Ted Alexander, “A Regular Slave Hunt: The Army of Northern Virginia and Black Civilians in the Gettysburg Campaign,”North and South Magazine, Vol 4, No. 7, Sept, 2001, p. 85June 22, 1863Recognizing the need to avoid turning public opinion against his troops, General Lee issued General Orders Number 72, admonishing his men to avoid injuring or destroying private property. The order also placed the army's quartermaster corps in charge of appropriating goods for military use, all of which it would pay for in Confederate money, which, however, was worth only a fraction of Northern currency. If the owner refused to accept such payment, officers were to issue a receipt that enumerated the goods taken. Owners refusing to comply with requests for supplies would have their goods seized, but receipts would still be issued.Some Southerners obeyed this order, but there were a number of exceptions. General Early contravened it when he burned the Caledonia Furnace, which was owned by Pennsylvania's Radical Republican Congressman Thaddeus Stevens. Throughout the Confederate sojourn in Pennsylvania, relatively little violence took place between soldiers and white civilians.However, when it came to African Americans, the Confederates acted quite differently. Throughout the invasion, troops seized all African Americans they encountered, making no distinction between escaped slaves and free residents of Pennsylvania. All were bound and taken south to be sold into slavery. On occasion, local civilians came to their rescue by overpowering their guards, and on a few occasions, stragglers from Lee's army were seized and executed. (WEB: ExplorePAHistory.com).June 23, 1863The Adams Sentinel reported: ‘[The Rebels] took possession of Hagerstown on Monday of last week. They remained until Wednesday afternoon… They carried off with them some horses and quite a number of colored personsJune 26, 1863Rev. Schaff had other observations. “On Friday [June 26] this guerilla [sic] band came to town on a regular slave-hunt, which presented the worst spectacle I ever saw in this war. They proclaimed, first, that they would burn down every house which harbored a fugitive slave, and did not deliver him up within twenty minutes. and then commenced the search upon all the houses upon which suspicion rested. It was a rainy afternoon. They succeeded in capturing several contrabands, among them a woman with two children. A most pitiful sight, sufficient to settle the slavery question for every humane mind.”Diary reports, date unknown;Rachel Cormany, another local resident of the time, recorded witnessing some of these kidnappings in her diary. “O! How it grated on our hearts to have to sit quietly and look at such brutal deeds–I saw no men among the contrabands–all women and children. Some of the colored people who were raised here were taken along–I sat on the front step as they were driven by just like we would drive cattle. Some laughed and seemed not to care–but nearly all hung their heads.” [The Cormany Diaries: A Northern Family in the Civil War, pages 329-330]“On at least one occasion a civilian, Charles Hartman of Greencastle, was ordered by Rebels under Maj. Gen. Robert Rodes to assist in the kidnapping of blacks.” [Peter C. Vermilyea, “The Effect of the Confederate Invasion of Pennsylvania on Gettysburg’s African American Community,” Gettysburg Magazine, Issue 24, p. 116.]July 1, 1863Historian Ted Alexander writes, “The Mercersburg Journal reported that ‘several of our colored men were observed to be in their custody two of these were John Filkill and Findlay Cuff. They were taken along with a number of others, having before them the cheerless prospect of being sold as slaves in the far South. Some of these unfortunates were brought back, or found their way home again after six months or a year. Others were never returned or heard of afterward.’ ” [Ibid., p. 86] He also tells us, “Confederate forces continued to round up African-Americans as late as July 1, 1863. Around noon on that date a group of more than fifty partisans, led by none other than Major John S. Mosby, arrived in Mercersburg. While the main body of this command rode on to forage in the countryside, a small detachment remained in the town. This group, described by witnesses as ‘drunken,’ robbed individual citizens and looted stores. The local newspaper reported that the band, ‘denying connection with the regular army…, felt licensed to do and dare whatever Satan suggested.’ One ‘Satanic suggestion’ prompted the raiders to force ‘along with them several free colored citizens, some of whom were highly esteemed in the community.’ When Judge James Carson asked one of the guerrillas whether they took ‘free negroes,’ the rebel replied ‘yes and we will take you too if you do not shut up!’ ” [Ibid., p. 87]Post Battle, July, 1863In a letter to his wife, Lt. Chester Leach, Company H, 2nd Vermont Infantry, tells the price paid by one African-American who tried to refuse to go along with the kidnappers: “I saw a sight yesterday that beats all I ever saw. A Negro boy that the Rebels left in a barn, entirely naked. His breast cut & bowels were scratched or cut & the Dr. said that turpentine had been put on him & also his privates had been cut off. I went in the barn to see him but it was rather dark. He lay on his back, his legs bent, knees up, & grinding his teeth & foaming at the mouth & seemed to take no notice of anything & breast & bowels looked as if they had been cut & then burned all over. I understand the reason of the act to be because he would not go over the river with them.” [Chester K. Leach to his wife, July 15, 1863].