Wills: Conrad Bohm's (from translation) 1788: Berks County

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           Conrad Bohm's Will (from translation) 1788

In the Name of the Holy Trinity Amen,

The scripture says to speak your House for you must Die and will not
remain alive, therefore I give over to  the loved God my Soul and my
Body to the Earth, and Witness herewith by Virtue of my Name
Subscribed  and Seal affixed thereto that after my departure out of
this World, in this my Testament and last Will all shall be Rightly
and duly kept as follows

My Wife Eva Elisabeth shall have a Cow, if there is two, she has the
choice

She shall have two sheep, the Choice of my sheep

She shall have a Swine which she pleases

She shall have all the Meat, Tallow, and Butter as it is in the House

She shall have all the Grain, the Meal, what is in the House and the
Grain yet in the field or in the Barn, the Straw she shall have half,
but should the grain be to reap, then she shall reap her half herself
and gather it.

She shall have the half of all feed for the Cattle

what is here spun, she shall have all

She shall have the Iron Stove

She shall have the Choice among my Pots to take which she pleases

She shall have the little Tup together with the Water Bucket

all her things or House furniture which she brought to me she shall
be Impowered to keep

I had a Bed and she had a Bed and those two Beds which we brought
together shall also be distributed, to wit, of those two Beds she
shall have the Choice which she pleases, the one which she must leave here,
shall be with a good cover and Pillowcase and two Sheets

If there Whisky, she shall have the third part thereof, as also of
all other drink what is here of Cloath, Woolen, linnen, or Liney not yet 
sowed up or made into cloas, she shall have all she  shall hold it so as 
all her cloa__

She shall have two pewter plates which she pleases

in Cash my Wife shall have three pound, say 3 Pound

As touching my funeral expenses, my Heirs alone shall satisfy (my
wife excepted) though Bread, flesh and other Victuals and Drink in 
the House

As to my remaining Effects which I leave the same shall be duly
distributed as follows, to wit, in due time  after my death, the 
Executor in my Testament appointed shall hold a Public Venue and 
sell what remains after my wife has duly received all, it shall be 
distributed among my Childrenıs Children, one like the other, 
to wit George Hartleinıs Children, 2nd David Siesholıs Children, 3rd
Lorentz Hartleinıs Children, 4th Baltzer Bohmıs Children, those said 
Childrenıs Parents shall inherit nothing thereof nor get it Land, but the 
Executor shall keep all in his Land, but when the Children has their
age, then each oneıs share shall be given it

My Son Jacob and his Children has nothing to inherit, since he has
fully received his inheritance, at the Land

I do appoint Adam Huder as Executor, of the aforesaid Heirs, Impower
herewith the Executor by virtue of my Subscribed name and thereto 
affixed Seal, and subscribing Witnesses that He shall duly execute all 
what I have written in this my Testament, and by me is ordered, to
the Conclusion I Witness and  acknowledge herewith that this be my last, 
yes very last Testament, and very last Will, sealed and Ratified,  
Witnesseth, and Signed, the 6th December 1788

Conrad (H=his mark) Bohm

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