Frederick County MD Archives Wills.....Zimmerman, Jacob April 21, 1786 ************************************************ 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: David Zimmerman zimmerman409@charter.net August 18, 2006, 8:18 pm Source: Family History Library Film Written: April 21, 1786 Recorded: April 21, 1786 FREDERICK COUNTY, MARYLAND WILLS MD – 4 - 97 Liber GM No. 3 Folio 97 In The Name of God Amen – the twenty first day of April in the year of our Lord Seventeen hundred and eighty Six I Jacob Zimmerman of Frederick County in the State of Maryland am weak in Body but of perfect mind & memory Blessed be God to this day Therefore calling unto mind the mortality of my Body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die I therefore make and ordain this my last will and Testament – that is to say Principally and first of all I give and recommend my Soul into the hands of God who gave it and my body I recommend to the Earth to be Buryed in a Christian like manner not Doubting but to the General Resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mighty power of God and as Touching such Worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this life I give Devise and dispose of the same in the following manner and form In primis it is my Will and I do order that in the first place all my Just Debts and funeral charges be paid and Satisfied Item I give and bequeath unto Lea my Dearly beloved Wife all my Estate both real and personal except Ten Pounds which Sum of ten pounds is to be paid to my son John Zimmerman after the Decease of my Wife Lea and not Sooner so that my Wife Lea may Buy and Sell and live thereon unmolested unto from or by her son John or any other person Whatsoever And afterwards the remainder after her Decease I give her my Wife the full power to Leave That to Whom she Pleases and it is Particular my last will That my son John shall not become her of no more than the above mentioned Sum of ten pounds and that for those reason while he never used me and my Wife as a Child Should do and for such Reasons I leave the whole in my Wifes Hands that according as he will use her his Mother for the further days which she shall live she has it in her Power to Leave what is left either to him or his children And I do hereby Utterly Disallow Revoke and Disannul all and any other former Testaments Wills Legacies and Executors before this time named Willed and bequeathed ratifying and confirming This and no other to be my last Will and Testament In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year above written Signed Sealed Published pronounced his and declared by the said Jacob Jacob x Zimmerman {Seal} Zimmerman as his last will and mark Testament in the presence of us the Subscribers Andrew Low John Geyer Georgs Gotzomannor Frederick County Dec’r 1st 1795 then came Andrew Low one of the Subscribing Witnesses to the aforegoing last Will and Testament of Jacob Zimmerman late of Frederick County Deceased and made Oath on the Holy Evangels of Almighty God that he did see the Testator therein named Sign & Seal this Will that he heard him publish pronounce 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 his apprehension of a Sound and disposing mind memory and understanding the he Subscribed his name as a Witness to this Will in the presence and at the request of the Testator and that he did also see John Guyor & Georgs Gotzomannor Subscribe their names as Witnesses to this Will in the presence and at the request of the Testator and all in the presence of each other 6 sides Geo Murdoch Reg’r This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mdfiles/ File size: 4.0 Kb