WILL: Christian BRECHBILL, 1818, Hamilton Township, Franklin County, PA

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Source: Franklin County Courthouse
Written: September 20, 1818
Recorded: December 30, 1818

Will

Christian Brechbill

Franklin County Courthouse
Chambersburg, Pennsylvania

In the name of God, Amen.  I, Christian Brechbill of Hamiliton Township 
Franklin County in the State of Pennsylvania, being far advanced in years tho 
of sound mind and disposing mind memory and understanding.  Thanks be to God 
for the same and knowing the uncertainty of this life on earth and the 
certainty of death and being desirous to settle things in order, I do make and 
publish this my last will and Testament in manner and form following to wit. 

I give and bequeath unto my beloved wife Susanna all my real and personal 
estate I now possess during her natural life and at her decease she shall have 
the full power to will the same to my Brother Jacob's son Jacob Brechbill 
Junior and my will further is that after my wife's decease my plantation shall 
fall to my brother's son Jacob and in case my wife should marry again after my 
decease and get heirs, she my said wife shall pay the sum of Four hundred 
Pounds good and lawful money out of my estate to the said Jacob Brechbill 
Junior, but if she my said wife dies without heirs then my said plantation 
shall fall to said Jacob if he shall remain a well doing boy, but no money paid 
to him and my will is that three years after my wife's decease the said Jacob 
shall pay the sum of five hundred pounds in the following manner, to one 
hundred pounds to be paid to my brother Jacob Brechbill, and one hundred pounds 
to Henry Hoover and the other three hundred pounds to be paid to my wife's 
friends or to whomever she shall order to be paid at her decease and my will 
further is that no inventory shall be taken after my decease all and everything 
shall remain in the hands of my wife during her natural life.  And lastly I do 
hereby name and appoint my wife and Henry Hoover Executors of this my last 
will and testament and I do hereby revoke disannul and make void all other and 
former wills by me theretofore made ratifying allowing and holding this for 
firm and effectual in witness hereof I have set my hand and seal this twentieth 
day of September in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and eighteen.

Christian Brechbill
Witness present: 
John Rothbaust
Abraham Wingert
John Solberger

Franklin County ss:

On the 30th day of October AD 1818 John Solberger and Abraham Wingert two of 
the witnesses to the foregoing instrument of writing appeared before me 
Register for the probate of Wills and granting letters of administration for 
the County of Franklin who upon their solemon affirmations do say that they 
were present and saw Christian Brechbill now deceased write his name unto and 
heard him publish the foregoing instrument of writing as and for his last Will 
and Testament that at the time of doing thereof he the said deceased was of 
sound and disposing mind memory and understanding according to the best of 
their knowledge and belief – that the names of a affirmed unto thereto 
subscribe as witnesses respectively of their own proper hands writing done at 
the same time.  And that they saw John Rothbaust the other subscribing witness 
sign his name as such at the same time.
John Solberger, Abraham Wingert
Sworn and subscribed before 
P.S. Dechert, Regr

A true copy taken from the original.