WILL (Partial): Fredrick BAUGHER, 1830, Berwick Township, Adams County, PA Surnames: BAUGHER, GEIGER, GRAYBILL, SMITH, FAHNESTOCK, BEAM, DEFORD, HAMMER, GETH, CARLE, HARTZELL Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Tom Wills twills @ charter .net Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/adams/ _______________________________________________ The Last Will & Testament (incomplete) of Fredrick BAUGHER of Berwick Township, Adams County, PA Transcribed by Tom Wills from a SAMPUBCO photocopy of Will Book D, pg 142. In the name of god Amen I Frederick Baugher of Berwick Township Adams County & State of Pennsylvania being of Sound & disposing mind& memory praised be god for the Same & being desirous to settle my worldly affairs while I have strength & capacity so to do, (?) & publish this my last will & testament, hereby revoking & making void all former wills by me made at any time heretofore made, and first and principally I commit my soul into the hands of the Creator who gave it & my body to the earth, and as to such worldly estate wherewith it has pleased the Almighty to intrust to me. I dispose of the same as follows __ I will in the first place that all my property both real & personal shall be sold so soon as it can be done. __ Secondly I will that all my just debts as shall be owing by me at my death, together with my funeral expenses & all charges (?) touching the proving of or otherwise concerning this my will shall be paid __ Thirdly I will to my daughter Maria intermarried with Henry Geiger five dollars. The residue of the money (?) out of the sale of my property & otherwise shall be distributed amongst the remainder of (?) viz George, Isaac, Frederick, Henry, Lewis, Elizabeth intermarried Jno Graybill, Catharine intermarried with Lewis Smith, Susan intermarried with Samuel Fahnestock, Charlotte intermarried with Robert Beam, Harriet intermarried with Benjamin Deford, Margaret intermarried with Jacob Hammer, & Nancy intermarried with Henry Geth Share & Share alike including (?) I have already given them Giving to those that have received the least (at my death) (?) them all equal Excepting my son Isaac who is already named I will that he is to have fifty dollars over and above any of the rest of my Children let it be understood that it is my will and meaning that my daughter Maria intermarried with Henry Geiger no more than five dollars already named & what she has already received __ and I make and ordain my sons Isaac Baugher & Frederick Baugher Executors of this my last will & testament. In the (?) whereof I Frederick Baugher testator have to this my will consisting of one sheet of paper (?) my hand & seal this ninth day of August in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and thirty Witnesses present Joseph Carle Jonas Hartzell Adams County_______ Before me John B. Clark register for the probate of wills & granting of letters of Administration in & for the County of Adams in the State of Pennsylvania personally appeared Joseph Carle & Jonas Hartzell the subscribing witnesses to the foregoing instrument of writing who on their (?) do say that they were personally present & saw & heard the therein named Frederick Baugher (?) name unto & seal & publish the foregoing instrument of writing as & for his last will & testament (?) of doing thereof, he the said Frederick Baugher was of a sound mind and memory (?) belief & that they subscribed their names thereto as witnesses (?) (?).