Subject: Bedford cty, Will of John Miller
Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2001 11:37:14 -0500
From: Edgar Miller <toejam@a-znet.com>
To: jpatter@epix.net

Wills: John Miller, 1813: Belfast Twp, Bedford Co, PA

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Will Book 1 pge 362
    filed and registered the 14th day of June AD1813
On the date above Jacob Ambrosher and Jacob Whitmore Executors in the
foregoing Will mentions were duly sworn according to law.

      In the name of God Amen I John Miller of Belfast Township Bedford
County and the commonwealth
of Pennsylvania being very sick and weak in body but of perfect mind and
memory, thanks be given
Unto God calling unto mind the mortality 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 soul into the hand of the almighty God that
gave it, and my body I
recommend to the earth to be buried in decent christian burial at the
discrection of my executors
nothing doubting but at the general reserection I shall recieve the same
again by the almighty
power of God. And as touching such worldly estate wherewith it hath
pleased God to bless me in this
life, I give demise and dispose of the same in the following manner and
form.
     First shortly after my decease I will that all my household goods
and moveable property shall
be sold by public sale and that I give and bequeath to Martha my dearly
beloved wife one third part
of all the moneys arising from the sale of the aforesaid movable
property.
     Two I will all my real estate  or the land that I own be sold at
public sale shortly after my
decease and that the monies arising there from after my just debts are
paid be divided in the following
manner. Vix To my five children Barbara Miller, Jacob Miller, John
Miller, David Miller and Elizabeth Miller
each one to recieve an equal part of the aforesaid monies when they come
to years of maturity. That is the
boys when they are 21 years old and the girls when they come to eighteen
years of age. And I do hearby
disallow remove and disannul all and every other former testament Will
or legary ratifying and confirming this
and no other to being my last will and testament in witness wherof I
have unto set my hand and seal this
28th day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
thirteen. Signed sealed published
pronounced and declared by the said John Miller as his last Will and
Testament in his presence and in the
presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names.

                                                              John
Miller    (Seal)

Witness
Ludwick Betz     John Harris             I John Miller Appoint Jacob
Ambrose and Henry Betz
                                       Executors of my last will and
Testament
                                                              John
Miller      (seal)