Berks County PA Archives Wills.....FRIESS, Peter January 5, 1835
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  Source: Full Will Register Of Wills, Reading
  Written: July 25, 1832
  Recorded: January 5, 1835
  
  Last Will and Testament of
  Peter Friess
  In the Name of God - Amen
   I, the signer Peter Friess in Albany Township, Berks County and State of
  Pennsylvania who is frail and weak, however, still am of sound mind, have 
  mental abilities, have a good memory and mental strength as well as judgment 
  just as in my days of health for which I thank God very much, especially when 
  I consider that we all have to die one day and that the time of our death will 
  come and that man should prepare himself in good time to be ready to leave 
  this world. I hereby designate this present document to be my last will and 
  testament.
  
  First of all, I commend my eternal soul into the hands of God to his eternal
  mercy and my body I give back to earth as my hereby named executors of my
  testament should initiate in such a way that I will be buried in a Christian 
  way and that my worldly possessions consisting of a farm situated in Albany
  Township, Berks County where I presently reside in a part of the county. 
  First of all, I order and command the executors of my will that they sell all 
  my goods, all my land as well as any other chattel and should pay off my debts
  which I leave behind. I hereby order that the executors of my will shall sell 
  to the one who is willing to buy my land, that they fare just and that they 
  have the same power of attorney as I had after my death. I furthermore order 
  that the executors of my will shall make sure to pay all my debts with the 
  money they could obtain from all the above mentioned sales which I left 
  behind. 
  I order the executors of my will to do follow my will and to obtain as much 
  money as the willing purchaser will pay after my death and to do so justly 
  just as I would have done and to ensure that the executors of my will shall 
  pay off all my debts after my death and to pay the remaining money to my 
  children, 
  To my daughter Magdalena or my daughter's husband Daniel Levan or their heirs 
  to pay them twenty-five pounds. 
  Twenty- five pounds should go to my daughter Maria or to the husband of my 
  daughter Philip Kistler or their heirs and 
  twenty-five pounds to my daughter Dorothea or their heirs 
  and twenty-five pounds to my daughter Barbara or to my daughter's husband 
  Heinrich Schmidt or their heirs, furthermore I order that any remaining money 
  after my daughters have received their share
  shall go to the other remaining children, namely 
  to my son Christian or his heirs,  
  to my son Johannes or his heirs, 
  to my son Michael or his heirs, 
  to my son Gideon or his heirs, 
  to my son Peter or his heirs, as well as
  to my daughter Christine or my daughter's husband Johannes Steigerwalt or to 
  his heirs,
  to my daughter Catherina or my daughter's husband Johann Reicheldorfer or 
  their heirs to be split in equal parts, to be given twenty-five pounds after 
  the earlier mentioned daughter's
  have received their share.  
  
  Again, let me explain one more time that the executors of my will shall split
  the remaining money into equal parts after my death and this is to be given to
  all my children. As an afterthought though, let me remind you that if one of 
  the children is not satisfied with their inheritance that they should be given 
  one English Shilling as I have ordered, the remaining money should be divided
  equally among all my children. At last I order that my son Christian and my
  daughter's [Barbara] husband Heinrich Schmidt are to be nominated as the 
  executors of my will. I order them that after my death they should have the 
  same power of attorney as I have now.
  
  This is to verify with my hand and seal that this is my last will and testament
  on the 25th day of July, 1832 to be testified by witnesses who are present.
  
  John Miller                                             Peter Friess   Seal
  Samuel Schmidt, witnesses
  
  Will proved 1/5/1835 in Wills office in Reading.
  
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