Wills: Andrew Shade, 1786: Tulpehocken Twp, Berks Co

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              THE WILL OF ANDREW SHADE September 3, 1786

     In the name of God, Amen, the third day of September in the year of our
Lord one
thousand seven hundred and eighty six.  I Andrew Shade, of the township of
Tulpohoccon,
in the County of Berks, in the state of Pennsylvania, Yeoman, being of weak
body but of
sound mind and memory, thanks be to God for the same, and calling to mind the
mortality of my body knowing that it is appointed that all men are to die do
this third day
of September, aforesaid make and ordain and publish this my last will and
testament in
manner and form that is today.

    Imprimis:  And first of all I commend my soul into the hnands of God that
gave it and
my body to the earth to be buried in a Christian manner at the descretion of
my
executors,  I do order all my just debts and funeral charges to be honesty
paid and
adjusted.

     I give and bequeath unto my beloved wife, May Eve, during her natural
life the
following enumerated articles viz: one large copper kettle, two pewter dishes,
four
pewter plates, six pewter spoons, one iron pot, her choice, one tub, two
buckets, one
ladle, her choice, one frying pan, her bed sted and bedding, now in my house,
her chest
with all that is therein, one coffee mill and it is further my will that my
beloved wife
aforesaid and shall have of my plantation whereon I now dwell during her
natural
lifetime.  Yearly and every year eight bushel of wheat, and seven bushel of
good rye the
said grain to be taken to the mill and the meal --- to be fetched home to her,
as she wants
the same, one hog, fattened in the fall yearly weighing at least on hundred
pounds.  Forty
pounds of beef, six cord of good wood, ten pounds of heackel flax or hemp, ten
pounds
of tea, the wood small cut and hauled for fire use.  One cow her choice of all
my cows to
be left on my plantation both summer and winter. As well as the owner cows of
the place
are kept.  And if said cow is old or should die, my wife aforesaid to have an
unquestionable right to take another cow out of the stock then on the premises
her
choice.  But further my will that my beloved wife shall live on my plantation
during her
natural life, she to live in the house which the owner of my plantation shall
built for her.
Near the spring house well furnished with a stove in the room as also build a
spring
house for her.  Said I also give and bequeath to my beloved wife three perches
of land of
the farm apart of the hemp house for a garden.  And about half an acre above
the hemp
piece of a garden which the owner of my plantation is to dung and plow yearly
for my
wife and to keep it in good fence and it is further my will and I do thereby
order that my
executers herein after shall take 100 pounds of the first money raised out of
my estate
and put the same out on interest and my executers to pay the interest yearly
to my
beloved wife.  Aforesaid for support provided always she is to remain my widow
but if
my beloved wife aforesaid should after her mind marry again then she shall
immediately
leave the premises.  Aforesaid and shall have non of the aforesaid bequethed
to her
except her bed and chest only.

     It is further my will and I do hereby order that my plantation and tract
of land with the
appurtenances thereon I now dwell situated and lying and being in the township
of
Tulpehoccon, I aforesaid , containing about three hundred acres of land more
or less, my
children who are now of legal age shall divide amoungst them and equally the
same
which ever of them give the highest price shall the same to him their heirs
forever.  But if
my children should not be inclined to purchase my plantation aforesaid then my
executers hereafter name shall sell and expose -- at public auction ---
hereafter named my
plantation aforesaid that my will that my children or --- always unto my wife
aforesaid
but of the same to her bequests, kettle unto her and it is first  --- that my
will that my
executer herein named shall expose at public auction al my personal estate
equal divide
amoungst my children share and share alike, what is to so to my son, Samuel
one
fourteenth equal share, unto my daughter, Catherine in fourteenth share, unto
my
daughter Elizabeth one fourteenth share, and unto my son Michael one
fourteenth share,
and unto my daughter, Susanna one fourteenth share, and to my son Andrew one
fourteenth share, and unto my son Adam one fourteenth share, and unto my son
Christian
one fourteenth share, unto my daughter, Magdelina one fourteenth share, unto
my
daughter Catherine one fourteenth share, unto my son John one fourteenth
share, unto my
daughter, Eve one fourteenth share, unto my daughter Christina one fourteenth
share and
unto my son, Jacob one fourteenth share.  And I give and bequeath to my son,
Samuel the
choice of all my horses and above what I have already bequeathed to him as his
birthright.
First allowing to my daughter the same.  Household furniture equal to my
daughter,
Catherina and Susanna now married.  And it is further my will that after my
wife
deceased all her personal affects which she may yet have shall be sold by
executers at
public auction and the money arising shall be equally divided amoungst my
fourteen
children aforesaid.  Shall share and share alike and do hereby appoint Daniel
Kemp and
George Susaman the guardians for my youngest children: to wit; George Susaman
to be
guardian for Magdelina, Catherine and my son John.  And do appoint Daniel Kemp
to be
guardian for my daughters Eve, Christina and my son, Jacob.  And lastly do
hereby
appoint my beloved son, Samuel Shade and son-in-law Philip Kemp my whole and
sole
executers of my last will and testament and to see this my last will and
testament to be
honestly fulfilled according to the true intent and meaning thereof and I do
hereby
revoke, disallow and make void all other channels or legacies -  by mend do
fore make
whether in works or writing signed -- denounced and delivered by the said
Andrew Shade
as his last will and testament in the presence of us.

Signed:  Mathia Kemp (his mark) Christopher Kern (his mark)

Andrew Shade