Wills: John George Nicholas Hildebrand, 1798: Greenwich Twp, Berks County

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Will of John George Nicholas Hildebrand, 1798 (official translation)

In the Name of God Amen, I George Hildebrant in Greenwich Township
Berks County State of Pennsylvania, am sick and week in Body, but of
sound understanding and Memory, thanks be given to God, who calls to
my Mind the Mortality of my body, and knowing that it is ordered for
all Men Once to die, do make and order 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 who gave it, and my Body I Recommend to the
Earth to be buried in a Christian like manner, and as to ___ my such
wordly Estate where with it hath pleased God to bless me in the life,
I give and devise the same in the following manner and form.

First I bequeath to my loving wife Anna Maria yearly the Interest of
Two hundred and fifty pounds, her Bed Bedstead and Curtains, One new
Chest, the House Clock and the Tin plate stove with the pipe, all the
yarn and Linnen shall belong to her, and she shall have a right to
take as much Kitchen furniture and Pewter ware, which we now have in
Possession to her use.  all the Hackeled flax, and all the wool, of
my sheep this SPring.

2) I bequeath out of my Estate to my six children, to wit, J. George,
Michael, Anna Abalona married to Godfried Kramer, Barbara married unto
George King, Philipina married unto Frederick Hill, Hanna married unto
Samuel Shaffer, unto each of them the sum of One hundred and Twenty
pound.

It is further my will that the above six, shall be paid according to
the age of my Children, fifty Pound at one time, who has more then
that must pay Each, until they are all alike.

3) It is my Will that all my property (Except what I have sold unto
my Son John with the place?), to wit, the Remaining Household goods
shall be sold.

4) It is my will and order that the Remaining money, which will be
raised out of my Estate shall Immediately after the Decease of my
loving wife be divided in Equal shares among all my Children or their
heirs.

I nominate my loving wife Anna Maria and my son Michael Hildebrant as
Executors of the my last Will and Testament.

Lastly do Recall and make Void all and every last Will and Testament
by me heretofore make, and order this to be my last Will and
Testament, In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal
the Eleventh Day of March in the year of our Lord 1798.

Signed Sealed published pronounced and Declared by the aforesaid
George Hildebrant as his last Will and Testatment in the presence of
us who in his presence and in the presence of each other, have
subscribed our name and at his request the said George Hildebrant.

Frederick Kramer
Samuel Ely

Georg Hildebrand