Frederick County MD Archives Wills.....Weaver, Christian September 25, 1802 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/md/mdfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: JoEllen Langwell jogarner45@comcast.net June 26, 2007, 4:42 pm Source: Frederick County Maryland Probate Records Written: September 25, 1802 Christian Webers' will created 25 September 1802 and probated 10 May 1813.. In the name of God Amen I Christian Weaver Senior of Frederick Town, Maryland being in perfect health of body and of sound disposing mind memory and understanding considering the certainty of death and being desirous to settle my worldly affairs and thereby be the 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----------------------- I commit my soul into the hands of Almighty God and my body to the earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my executors herein after named and after my debts and funeral charges are paid I devise and bequeath as follows---------------- I give and devise unto my beloved wife Catharine Weaver all and singular my estate lands and tenanments and personal property of whatever kind including everything I possess in the world during her natural life and after her decease I give and devise the same to my beloved children Valentine Weaver, Catharine Wilbahn wife of Frederick Wilbahn, Christian Weaver, Jacob Weaver, Phebe Weaver, Sophia Weaver and Polly Weaver their heirs and assigns forever to be equally devided among them as tenants in common. And lastly I do hereby constitute and appoint my trusty friends Daniel Hauer Senior and Valentine Brunner of Fredericktown to be my executors of this my last will and testament and it is my desire and will that they or the survivor of them on the death of my said wife sell at public sale on credit or cash as they or the survivor of them shall deem most advantageous All the aforesaid property as above devised to my children and devide the money arising from the sale among my said children in the manner as above directed to wit equally as Tenants in common. And the said executors or the survivor of them is fully authorized and empowered on a sale of the aforesaid property agreeably to this my last will and testament to give a legal title or titles to the purpose thereof. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this twenty fifth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight Hundred and Two. Christian Wubur seal (Done in German Script) Frederick County To wit on the 10th day of May 1813 then came Henry Schell & Jacob Berger three of the subscribing witnesses to the foregoing and annoxed last will and testament of Christian Weaver late of Frederick County deceased and made Oath on the holy evangels of almighty God that they did see the testator therein named sign and seal this will that they heard him publish pronounce and declare the same to be his last will and testamentthat at the time of his so doing he was to the best of their apprehension of a sound and disposing mind memory and understanding that they respectively subscribed their names as witnesses to this will in the presence and at the request of the testator And that they did also see Jacob Boyer Junior and Daniel Clarke Junior the other subscriving witnesses sign their names as witnesses to said will in the presence and at the request of the Testator and all in the presence of each other. Richard Butler Reg. Signed sealed published and declared by Christian Weaver Senior the above named testator as andfor this last will and testament in the presence of us who at his request and in his presence have subscribed our names as witnesses there to... Jacob Boyer Junior Daniel Clarke Junior Henry Schell Jacob Berger Frederick County to wit on the 10th day of May 1813 then came Daniel Hauer and Valentine Brunner and made Oath on the Holy Evangels of Almighty God that the foregoing and annoxed---------------- Instrument of writing is the true whole will and testament of Christian Weaver late of Frederick County deceased that hath come to their hands and possession and that they do not know of any other.. Richard Butler reg. Additional Comments: I have a copy of the original will This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mdfiles/ File size: 5.1 Kb