Will of Johann Jacob UTZ (1826); Frederick County, MD Contributed to the USGenWeb Archives by Maureen Utz Copyright. All Rights Reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/md/mdfiles.htm ********************************************************* UTZ WILLS Johann Jacob Utz, 1764-1826 In the name of God. Amen. I Jacob Utz of Frederick County and state of Maryland being sick and weak of body but of sound disposing mind memory and understanding considering the certainty of death and the uncertainty of the time thereof and being desirous to settle my worldly affairs, and be thereby better prepared to leave this world when it shall please 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 the Almighty and my body to the earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my Executors hereinafter named, and after my debts and funeral charges be paid which I hereby order and direct my will is as follows, viz: Items I give and bequeath into my dear wife Catherine the house and premises I now occupy a lot or parcel of ground lying in Winters addition to the town of Westminster and also the lands I hold in Baltimore County during her natural life. I also give unto my dear wife Catharine Eight hundred dollars all my household and kitchen furniture of every description all farming utensils my horse and cow hay and straw potatoes and garden stuff with all kinds of provisions in and about the house. Items I give and bequeath unto my four grand children as follows. To Mary Grammar two hundred dollars To John Utz two hundred dollars to Jesse Utz one hundred dollars and to Catharine Utz one hundred dollars Item It is my will and desire and I do hereby so, order authorize and direct that my said hereinafter named Executors sell convey and transfer according to the title. I may have all the residue of my Estate wherever situate be the same real person or mixed in such manner on such terms as to them may seem most beneficial and the proceeds from the same to collect together with the residue of all the debts rights and claims to which I may be entitled and when so collected together I then order and direct my said hereinafter named Executors to pay the foregoing legacies to the proper persons to receive the same. Item I give and bequeath unto my daughter Polly Grammar all ballences remaining on final settlement in the hands of my said hereinafter named Executors and direct the same to be paid over unto her I also give and bequeath after the death of my said wife Catherine To my daughter Polly Grammer the house and premises we now occupy and the lot or parcel of ground lying in Winters addition to Westminster and also all the lands in Baltimore County as bequeath to my said wife Catharine during her life. And lastly I do hereby constitute and appoint my friend Isaac Shriver and Jacob Grammer to be sole Executors of this my last will and testament revoking and annulling all former wills by me heretofore made ratifying and confirming this and none other to be my last will and testament In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this thirty first day of October Eighteen hundred and twenty six. Jacob Utz (seal) Signed, sealed, published and declared by Jacob Utz the above named Testator, as and for his last will and testament in the presences of us who at his request in his presence the presence of each other have inscribed our names as witnesses thereto Jacob Groves Thomas Gurley John Brown Frederick County to wit: On the 9th day of November 1826 there came Isaac Shriver and made oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God that the foregoing instrument of writing is the true whole will and testament of Jacob Utz, late of Frederick County, deceased, that hath come to his hands and possession, and that he doth not know of any other. Test. G. M. Eichelberger, Reg. Frederick County to wit: On the 9th day of November 1826 there came Jacob Groves and Thomas Gurley two of the subscribing witnesses to the foregoing last will and testament of Jacob Utz, late of Frederick County, deceased, and made oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God, that they did see the Testator therein named sign and seal said will, that they heard him publish pronounce and declare the same to be his last will and testament, that at the time of his so dying he was to the best of their apprehensions of a sound and disposing mind memory and understanding and that they together with John Brown the other subscribing witness respectively subscribed their names as witness to said will in the presence and at the request of the testator and all in the presence of each other. Test. G. M. Eichelberger, Reg. To the Register of Wills of Frederick County I Jacob Grammer being by Jacob Utz deceased of Frederick County appointed one of the Executors by his last will and testament, do hereby refuse to act as such and do therefore renounce all my right title, and claim of the same, as witness my hand this seventh day of November Eighteen hundred and twenty six. Jacob Grammer Test. Jacob Groves Transcribed from SAMPUBCO copy by Maureen Utz Frederick County, Maryland, Will Book Vol # 9, page 504