The Will of Phillip Bushong of Washington County, Maryland

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Washington Co., Maryland (ABook A p107), will is dated 7 Feb 1785, proven
26 Feb 1785:"In the name of God Amen I Phillip Bushong of Washington County
and State of Maryland being very weak in body but of perfect mind and 
memory thanks be given to God. Calling to mind the inability of my body 
and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die do make and ordain 
this my last will and testament that is to say principally and first of all 
I give and recommend my body unto the earth to be buried in a decent 
Christian burial at the descretion of my excr and I recommend my sole unto 
the All Mighty God who gave it to me nothing doubting but at the General 
Resurrection I shall receive the _____ again by the Almighty power of God 
and as touching such worldly estate as it has pleased God to bless me with 
in this life. I give device and dispose of the same in the following manner 
and form. Imprimose my will is that my beloved wife BARBARY shall have an 
equal share with any of my heirs herein mentioned in my real and personal 
estate according to a certain marriage contract between us enacted this 
shall be the full satisfaction for her dower and besides this her share 
she shall have no further right to my estate Either real or or personal
except what she brought to me and the remaining and residue of my estatae
both real and personal I leave and bequeath unto my nine children viz as 
follows except sundry legacies hereto mentioned. John Bushong, Barbary wife 
of Henry Hardman, Phillip Bushong, Peter Bushong, Henry Bushong, Mary Bushong, 
Jacob Bushong, David Bushong, Elizabeth Bushong to be equal divided between 
them. 
Imprimise I give and bequeath to my eldest son JOHN BUSHONG five ________

Imprimise I give and bequeath unto the widow of Robert Michael or his heirs
after her death forty pounds & ten shillings it being for a certain sum of
money I borrowed of her husband in former good times and paid it in
Continental money when it rated twenty for one.

Imprimise my will is that is to say after my death my executors shall and
may sell of my real and personal estate and make conveyance for said Lands to
those fit thinking and after paying all just debts and funeral charges and 
the legacies above mentioned the remaining part to be divided as is herein
before mentioned that is to say to my beloved wife Barbary and my nine 
children.

And also I constitute and appoint Christian Newcomer and Jacob Hess to be the
executors of this my last will and testament and I do hereby utterly disallow
revoke and dissanull all and every other testaments will legacies bequests
and revoke and dissanull all and every other testaments will legacies bequests
and executors by me in any wise before named willed and bequested 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 this seventh day of February in
the year of our Lord Seventeen Hundredand Eighty five.
Phillip (his X mark) Bushong (seal) Individual: Bushong, Philip
County/State: Lancaster Co., PA
Location: Lampeter Twp
Page #: 487
Year: 1810