Wills: Jacob Will, 29 August 1846: Greenwitch Twp, Berks County

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Will of Jacob Will, 29 August 1846, Berks County, PA
Will Book 9, Page 138.

In the (name) of God amen, I the undersigned Jacob Will of Greenwitch
township Berks County and State of Penn. Being indent(?), infirm, sick and
weak, but still retaining my perfect understanding faculty of recollection
memory power of judgement as yet exactly as in my healthy days, for which I
thank God heartily, and considering that we must all die, and that the time
of our death is uncertain, and that man ought to be ready at all times to
leave this world make and declare herewith by these presents to be my last
will and testament, First I commend my immortal soul into the hands of my
God to his eternal mercy, and my body to the earth, which my hereafter named
Executors shall have buried in a christian manner, and so as it may be found
good.  And as touching my worldy Estate consisting of a Farm, and containing
one hundred and ninety six acres more or less situate in two pieces in
Greenwitch township siad County, and different personal property, I bequeath
the above said Farms, as above said to my son Daniel Will to his full
possession, neverthe less under the condition that he must pay four(?)
thousand dollars for it, nevertheless, he shall deduct one thousand two
hundred dollars from the above sum in advance for yearly wages, for which he
has worked over his twenty one years, and as touching my personal property
or effects, shall be sold by my hereinafter named Executors and be converted
into money and all in equal, as also the money arising out of the land to be
divided in equal shares among my four children namely Daniel, Hannah
intermarried to Michael Deitrich Jr. Rebecca intermarried to Solomon
Deitrich and Catherine intermarried to Solomon Fister to be divided,
nevertheless, my son Daniel Will shall out of the money arising out of the
land some two thousand eight hundrend dollars out of the land three years
time after my death to pay without interest.  Second, It is my will and
order, that if my son Daniel should not take the aforesaid land Estate as
aforesaid, and one of my son in laws should wish to take it, then he must
pay five hundred dollars more than I have offered it to my son Daniel.  But
should one or the other of my children or sons in law be satisfied, or
begins a lawbusiness about this my last will and testament this shall then
be debarred(?) of this bequest or his share & be divided among the rest,
And lastly I nominate herewith my son Daniel, Michael Deitrich Junr, Solomon
Deitrich and Soloman Fister Executors to this my last will and testament,
and revoking every kind of use before made last wills & testaments & having
my credentials appertaining with my own hand undersigned and affixed by seal
to the same, so done the twenty ninth day of August in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and forty six.

Undersigned and sealed
and declared as the last                          Jacob Will (seal)
will and testament of the
above undersigned Jacob Will
in presence of us
  John Deitrich
  Benjamin Hoages(?)
  Peter Kline