Berks County PA Archives Wills.....ADAM, Jacob March 29, 1849
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  Source: Berks County Courthouse
  Written: March 29, 1849
  
  Will of Jacob Adam 1849 Richmond Township Berks County Pennsylvania
  
  	I Jacob Adam, of Richmond Township, in the County of Berks, and State of
  Pennsylvania, do make and publish this my last will and testament, as follows,
  to wit: -
  	First:  All my just debts and funeral expenses shall be paid by my hereinafter
  named executors, as soon as conveniently can be after my death.
  	Item:  Immediately after my death, my Executors shall sell and convert into
  money, all my personal property, whatever the same may be, whether in possession
  or in action – and the balance remaining, after paying my debts and the
  necessary expenses of settling up the Estate, shall be distributed as follows,
  to wit: to my wife Susannah one third part thereof – the other two thirds to my
  seven children, William Adam, John Adam, Jacob Adam, Sarah, married to Samuel
  Oswalt, Elizabeth, married to George Weidenhammer; Susannah, married to Benjamin
  Breininger; and Mary, married to William Gehret, in equal shares –
  	Item:  As soon as conveniently can be after my death, my Executors shall sell,
  at public sale, all the real estate of which I shall be seised and possessed, at
  the time of my death; and the proceeds of such sale shall be distributed as
  follows, to wit: two thirds thereof to my seven children above named, in equal
  shares, with the exception of Mary, married to William Gehret, from whose share
  the sum of Four hundred and twenty five Dollars shall be deducted; which said
  sum I give and bequeath to Henry Kutz, the son of my daughter Mary, by her
  former husband Henry L. Kutz – and which shall be paid to him by my Executors
  after he attains the age of twenty one years, at such times and in such sums as
  they shall deem proper.  The remaining one third part of the amount for which my
  real estate shall be sold, shall remain a lien thereon, and the interest thereof
  be paid annually to my wife Susannah during her natural life; and after her
  death the principal to be distributed in equal shares among my seven children
  above named.  The share of the personal property, and the interest of one third
  part of the proceeds of the sale of the real estate, bequeathed to my said wife
  Susannah as above mentioned, shall be in lieu and stead of her dower at common law.
  	Item:  In case I should die before Henry Kutz, the son of my daughter Mary,
  attains the age of twenty one years, my Executors shall invest the said sum of
  four hundred and twenty five dollars, bequeathed to him as aforesaid, upon good
  security, and upon arriving at said age, to pay the same to him, as before
  directed, with the interest which may accrue during said investment.
  	Item:  The share coming to my daughter Elizabeth, married to George
  Weidenhammer, both of the real and personal property, shall be for her sole,
  separate and exclusive use.
  	Item:  I give unto my Executors full power and authority, to sign, seal,
  execute and acknowledge, all such deed or deeds of conveyance, as may be
  requisite and necessary for granting and assuring the real estate to be sold by
  them, as before directed, unto the purchaser or purchasers thereof, in fee
  simple.  And in case either of my said Executors should die before the execution
  of such deed or deeds, the  surviving Executor shall have the power to execute
  the same, as fully and to the same effect as both, if living, could do.
  	Item:  It is my wish that my executors shall receive a reasonable compensation
  for settling up the estate.
  	And, lastly, I nominate, constitute and appoint my two sons Jacob Adam and John
  Adam, to be the executors of this my will – hereby revoking all other wills by
  me heretofore made, and declaring this, and no other, to be my last will and
  testament.
  	In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, the twenty ninth day
  of March Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty nine.
  
  Signed, sealed, declared and
  published, by the above named			Jacob Adam
  Jacob Adam, as and for				[signature]
  his last will and testament,
  in presence of us – who at his
  request and in his presence
  have subscribed our names as
  witnesses thereto –
  
  Samuel L. Young
  Paul Hilbert
  						Codicil
  	I Jacob Adam, the above Testator, do hereby make and publish the following
  Codicil to the above last will and testament, which said Codicil shall be a part
  thereof, and of the like force and effect as though it had been executed at the
  same time to wit –
  	It is my will that the share bequeathed to my daughter Susannah, married to
  Benjamin Breininger, both of the real and personal property, shall be for her
  sole, separate and exclusive use.
  	In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this thirteenth day of
  September Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty nine.
  
  Signed, sealed, declared and
  published by the above				Jacob Adam
  named Jacob Adam, as				[signature]
  a Codicil to the above
  last will and testament in
  presence of us.
  
  Paul Hilbert
  Samuel L. Young 
  
  
  Additional Comments:
  Codicil written September 13, 1849.
  
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