Wills: Henry Snyder, 1832: Frederick County, Maryland Probated: 1832 Will Book Vol.10, page 380 Surnames: Barrick, Beacht, Hoy, Shank, Sim, Snyder Transcribed from SAMPUBCO copy and contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Sarah Dart ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/md/mdfiles.htm ************************************************ In the name of God Amen. I Henry Snyder of Frederick County and State of Maryland, being sick and weak in body but of sound and disposing mind, memory and understanding, considering the certainty of death and the uncertainty of the time thereof, and being desirous to settle my wordly affairs before it shall please the Almighty God to call me hence do therefore make and publish this my last will and testament, in manner and form following: that is to say, First and principally, I commit my soul into the hands of Almighty God, and my body to the earth, to be buried in a decent and Christian like manner, and after my debts and funeral expenses are paid and satisfied, I give devise and bequeath as follows. 1st As soon after my demise as may be convenient, the whole of my real estate, consisting of the home farm, and the farm on which Michael Shank at present resides, I wish to be appraised, and valued by persons of good judgement, the valuation to be made at a cash price and to be equally divided among my children; Jacob Snyder, Margaret Shank and Ann Elizabeth Hoy, as follows, viz, 2nd To my son Jacob Snyder i give and bequeath my home farm, to him, his heirs & assigns, in fee simple, by his paying to my daughter Ann Elizabeth Hoy, in four equal annual payments, without Interest, the residue of the valuation of said property, after his share of one third of the valuation of the whole property shall be decucted from the valuation of said farm. 3rd, To my daughter Margaret Shank, I give and bequeath the farm on which she now resides, to her, her heirs and assigns in fee simple, upon the condition of her paying to my daughter Ann Elizabeth Hoy the residue of the valuation of said property, after her Margarets share or the third of the valuation of the whole Estate, shall be deducted therefrom in four equal annual payments, without Interest. 4th. To my daughter Ann Elizabeth Hoy, I give and bequeath this one third of the whole amount of the valuation of my estate, in money, to be paid & secured to her, her heirs & assigns by my son Jacob & my daughter Margaret as above specified and provided for. 5th. The residue of my Estate, real, personal, or mixed it is my wish should be disposed of as speedily as possable by my Executor hereinafter mentioned, and be equally divided among my children, Jacob Snyder, Margaret Shank, and Ann Elizabeth Hoy, in equal shares, share and share alike. 6th. And lastly, I do hereby constitute and appoint my son Jacob Snyder as the sole executor of this my last will and testament, revoking and annulling all wills by me heretofore made, ratify and confirming this and none other to be my last will and testament. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed my seal, this fourteenth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two. Henricus Schnider {seal} Signed sealed, published and declared, by Henry Snyder, the above named testator as and for his last will and testament, in the presence of us, who at his request, in his presence, and in the presence of each other, have subscribed Our names as Witnesses thereto Thos Sim Solomon Barrick Joseph Beacht Maryland, Frederick County, to wit: On the 6th day of August 1832, came Jacob Snyder and made Oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God, that the foregoing Instrument of writing is the true whole will and testament of Henry Snyder, late of Frederick County, decd., that hath come to his hands and possession that he found the same amongst the papers of the testator after his decease, and that he does not know of any other of a later date. Test. G. M. Eichelberger Regr. In the 6th day of August 1832 came Solomon Barrich and Joseph Beacht, two of the subscribing witnesses to the foregoing last will & testament of Henry Snyder, decd, and made oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God, that they did see the testator therein named sign and seal this will, that they heard him publish, proclaim and declare the same to be his last will and testament, that at the time of his so doing he was to the best of their apprehensions of a sound and disposing mind, memory and understanding, that they respectively subscribed their names as witnesses thereto, at the request of the testator, and in his presence, & that they did also see Thos Sim the other subscribing witness subscribe his name as a witness at the request of the testator & in his presence, and all in the presence of each other. Test. G. M. Eichelberger Regr.