WILL: Heinrich SEITZ (SITES), 1802, 1804, Antrim Township, Franklin Co., PA

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Franklin County, PA, Will Book B, Page 224

Johann Heinrich SEITZ (Henry SITES)

Henry Sights [in margin]

Be it remembered that I Henry Sites Senior of Antrim Township Franklin Co and 
State of Pennsylvania yoeman, Do make and ordain this my last Will & Testament 
in manner and form following to wit, First I will and allow all my just debts 
and funeral charges to be paid and fully satisfiedItem I will and allow to my 
well beloved Wife Nancy twenty pounds yearly, during her natural life, together 
with one horse and saddle worth twenty five pounds specia, one good cow, two 
sheep, the use of my dwelling House and Household furniture, during her natural 
life, likewise fifteen bushels of Wheat and one hundred weight of pork yearly, 
likewise one half of the garden, before my House, during her life, each of my 
sons to give and hall her two loads of firewood yearly, my son Jacob to keep her 
cow and Henry to keep her sheep, the horse and saddle, cow and sheep, to be 
taken out of my personal Estate, the remainder of bequethments to be provided by 
my sons Henry and Jacob each being at equal expense.
Item I will and allow my son Henry all that ends of my Plantation whereon he now 
lives as surveyed and laid of, to him his Heirs and assigns forever.
Item I will and allow my son Jacob all that ends of my plantation whereon I now 
live as surveyed and laif of to him his Heirs and Assigns forever.
Item I will and allow my son Stophel the one hundred and ten pounds specia.
Item I will and allow to my daughter Nancy Statler, the sum of two hundred and 
thirty pounds specia.
Item I will and allow my daughter Martha Ankony, the sum of two hundred pounds 
specia.
Item I will and allow my daughter Elizabeth Rafter, the sum of two hundred and 
thirty pounds specia, & my Will is that my personal Estate be equally divided 
amongst all my children except what property is herein before bequeathed, & my 
will is that when my wife Nancy dies what property she has be equally divided 
amongst all my children, & my will is that my son Henry is to pay three hundred 
pounds specia towards paying my son Stophel and my daughters legacy in the 
following manner, to wit, one year after my death, to pay forty pounds, and so 
on forty pounds yearly until the whole is paid *. And my will is that my son 
Stophel is to get the first payment, that my sons Henry and Jacob is to make and 
my daughter Nancy the second, my daughter Martha the third, my daughter lizabeth 
the forth and so on still beginning with the oldest, until the whole is paid, 
Lastly, I nominate appoint and ordain my sons Henry and Jacob to be my Executors 
of this my last will and testament, hereby revoking all others, by me hitherto 
had or made and confirming this and this alone to be my last Will and Testament. 
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal, this eighteenth day of 
December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and two

 NB    the words household furniture interlined before signing. 

Heinrich Seitz (seal) {gothic German signature}
Signed Sealed, published and declared in the presence of
John Beaty, Robert Robison, David Fullerton

[In margin] *And My wife is third my son Jacob is to pay five hundred pounds 
specia towards paying my son Stophel and my daughters Legacy in following manner 
viz one year after my death to pay forty pounds and so on forty pounds yearly 
until the whole is paid.
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EDITORS NOTE:

Will was presented to the Register of Wills 30 October 1804; Robert Robison and 
David Fullerton testified that they saw Henry sign the will.

Daughter Martha Ankony had remarried by the time the will was probated. She 
answered the estate as Magdalena, wife of Martin Kershner of Maryland. 
 
Magdalena Ankeney and Martin Kershner were married in Washington County, 
Maryland 19 January 1804.

Daughter Nancy Statler was the wife of Jacob Stotler/ Statler - per his will 12 
Mar 1790 Franklin County, PA. By 1802 she was residing in Penn Twp., Allegheny 
County, PA.

John Beaty, Robert Robison and David Fullerton were neighbors of Henry Sites on 
the 1800 U.S. census  Franklin County, Pennsylvania [p. 895].