Berks County PA Archives Wills.....ESHELMAN, Peter September 15, 1808
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  Source: Last  Will And Testament
  Written: September 15, 1808
  Recorded: November 22, 1808
  
  Peter Eshelman will 1808
  
  In the name of God and in I Peter Eshelman of the Township of Cumru in the 
  County of Berks and in the State of Pennsylvania being in perfect health of and 
  of sound mind disposing mind memory and understanding considering the certainty 
  of death and the uncertainty of the time thereof, and being desirous to settle 
  my worldly accounts and thereby be the better independent to serve this world 
  when it shall please God to carry me home do therefore make and publish this my 
  last will and testament in manner and form following.  What is to say, first 
  and principally, I commit my soul in the hand of the almighty God and my body 
  to the earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my executors herein 
  after named.  And after my debts and funeral charges are paid, I devise and 
  bequeath as follows: It is my will and order that my daughter Anna Eshelman 
  shall have twenty five acres of my plantation where I now live beginning at the 
  land of Henry Weber running along the line of David Eshelman.  It is my will 
  and order that my daughter Elizabeth Eshelman shall have twenty five acres 
  beginning at the land of Henry Weber running along the line of Anna. It is my 
  will and order that my daughter Caterine Eshelman shall have twenty five acres 
  being same twenty five acres she has now in possession already surveyed and 
  deeded.  It is my will and order that my daughter Christenah Eshelman shall 
  have twenty five acres beginning at the land of Windle Bowman running a 
  straight line to Andrew Gerdners line.  It is my will and order that my sone 
  Martin Eshelman shall have fifteen acres beginning at the land of Windle Bowman 
  Christian Bowman and Conrad Watts a straight line of the land of Peter 
  Russner.  It is my will and order that my sone Peter Eshelman shall have twenty 
  five acres beginning at the land of Windle Bowman running a straight line to 
  the land of Peter Russner.  It is my will and order that my sone John Eshelman 
  shall have all the remainder of my plantation more or less with the new house 
  and the old house barn, stables and all the improvements there on.  It is my 
  will and order that the residence and remainder of my hole estate rails and 
  personal.  I leave to my two sones and my three daughters namely Peter, John 
  Anna, Christenah and Elizabeth Eshelman to be divided between the five on these 
  conditions that the afore mentioned five shall pay for my funeral expenses and 
  all my same full debts.  It is my will and order that all my children shall pay 
  and equal shear of the purchase money and deeding my land yet not deeded and 
  each one shall be at the expense of dividing his own shear of land from the 
  rest.  It is my will and order that if any dispute should rise concerning this 
  my will there shall be three men chosen of a reputable character by the joint 
  agreement of all my children as a majority of them, who shall settle and report 
  which shall be as bonding on all parties as if done in court.  It is my will 
  and order that if any of my children should happen to be dissatisfied and 
  should attempt to destroy as set aside this my will by applying to a court or 
  attorney at same in order to affect the same, shall have the sum of five pounds 
  as is whole share and cease all claims and right t his afore mentioned share, 
  which share shall be sold and equally divided among all the rest of my 
  children.  It is my will and order that John Eshelman and Anne Eshelman shall 
  be my executors.  Lastly it is my will and order that this my will shall set 
  aside and disannounce all former wills made by me, as witness my hand and seal 
  this 15th day of Sept n the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and 
  eight.  Witness present at signing.  
  1. Christian Bnohnet
  2. William HÖ..
  3. William ÖÖ
  
  Registers office Reading in Berks County Nov 22, the 1808 then appoint 
  Christian Barlet and William Hushar to the subscribing witness to the forgoing 
  wil who being duly sworn according to law do declare that they were present 
  together with William Henhan the other subscribing witness and did hear Peter 
  Eshelman the testor sign by making his mark publish, pronounce and declare the 
  form writing as ad for his last will and testament ad that the .time of the 
  signing that he was of sound mind memory and understanding to the best of their 
  knowledge and that they verify believe and further note that Christian Barlet 
  with the mark to the name of William Hushar are there own handwriting therefore 
  subscribe in the presence of each other and in the presence and at the request 
  of the testor  
  
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