Wills: Will of John Ehrman, Warwick Township, Lancaster Co.

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Will of John Ehrman, 
Warrick Twp, d. 1773, 

dated Mar 18 1773: 

In the Name of God the Father Son and Holy Gost Amen. I Hannes Ereman, farmer, of Lancaster County, Warwick Township, province of
Pennsylvania, being weak of body but of Sound mind and memory blessed be God, do this Eighteenth day of March in the Year of our Lord One 
Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy three macke & publish this my last Will & Testament in manner following, Viz: 

1) I commend my soul to my Creator of wich I received it and my Body to the Earth to be Buried in a descent licke manner and ordain that all
 my funeral charges & debts shall be paid and satisfied out of my real and personal estate by my Exrs. hereafter appointed. 

2) I do give, ordain and bequeath unto my dear beloved wife ELIZABETH the following articles Goods and Moveables that after my Death my Son in
Law HANNES DUTH /which shall have the place while my Sons JOHN GEORGE & MICH’L declein in tacking the place/ Shall live peaceably in the New 
house adjoining the Old house with the Stove belonging thereto, then to receive of Hannes Duth as the owner of the place every Year and during 
her life time Ten bushels of good Wheat and three Bushels of good rey ready ground from the mill and delivered in her own house, then to keep 
her own Cow over ______ (Owner?) in his fodder etc in somer times along with his own Cattles in Pasture and garden fance to lett her have a 
Quarter of an Acre of Madow for grazing, One Hundred Pounds of Porck, Twenty Pounds of fresh meat every faall, Room for her cow & for one Hogg 
in the Stable, room in the Spring House for her Milk, Two pounds on Woll, Twenty Pounds of Hackeld hemp or flax, one pair of Shoes every year, 
One sack of coarse and one Cask of fine Salt, Small cord of firewood to be delivered for her Door, one Creature for riding is she wants one, 
the use of two bearing apple threes where She places, and in case the Owner Hannes Duth Shall make Cyder She is to have one barrell of good 
Cyder, two gallons of apple or _____ Liquor every year and during her life, the thirth part of the Garden /well dungd/ from the Owners Stable, 
one gallon of Lamp Oyl instead of Candles, as also to keep for herself one compleat Bedd with all the Bed Clothes & Bed _____, One Table, one 
walnut Chair, one chest and Spinning Wheel and washing Fop Milek Top water Top, a copper Kettle, a Iron Pott, butter churn, 2 small pewter 
Dished, pewter Plates, Spoons Knifes and Forks, frying pann, 2 small Caggs Dow draugh, 4 bread baskets, 3 baggs, Sickle fo grassing, a womans
saddle with bridle, a spath (spade), a how, one lamp, one fire hosle. 


3) I do order, give and bequeath unto my son in Law Hannes Duth my plantation containing one hundred and twelve acres of land according to ye 
Deed which I had in possession, for four hundred and fifty pounds lawful money /out of which £450 my beloved wife shall have £60, then my 
oldest Son JOHN ERMAN & my sons GEORGE EREMAN and my son MICH'L EREMAN shall have out of the principal sum, each of them, three six pounds 
currency and no more as they did not stand their times to their full age with one licke the rest of the children did, then the remainder of 
the Money Shall be paid and divided share and share alike, Viz: to JOHN Ereman, GEORGE Ereman, MICH'L Ereman, to CANTON'S children /which 
money or their share Hannes Duth as their Exrs. shall receive and so lay it out to their best advantage till ye are of Age/ HUBERT BAUMGARDNER 
and HANNES DUTH, or after age as they follow one after another. 

4) I order and will that my Son in Law Hannes Duth shall pay unto my Wife out of her £60 every year four pounds currency for her mentainance 
and then what She shall leave after her Death Shall be divided among her or my children (except that her own Child which she brought to me 
before marriage shall have five pounds) which my Exrs. shall or will do instead of one. 

Further I order and will that my Children Shall give unto Hannes Duth a good Lawfull release Signed and Executed from them _____, that my son 
in law Hannes Duth Shall macke no payment the first year /except my wife mentenance/ as also he Shall make no payment the second year, then 
the third year he is to pay £15 yearly to the rest of my children according to their ages and so on till the residue is paid off. 

I further and lastly do appoint NICOLAUS MORRETT and CHRISTIAN GEYGER as my sole and absolute Exrs. & Admrs. of this my last Will and 
Testament to perform all herein mentioned articles and own freely Will well and Truly accounting to their best Judgment, Revocking hereby all 
other former wills by me thereto made. In Witness whereof I have hereunto sett my hand and Seal this day & year above written. 

Hannes Ereman. 
Testis Nickolaus Morrett, 
Christian Geyger, 
Jerome Heintzelman, 
_____ Jorge Say. 

Lancaster County ___. On the fifth day of April Anno Domini 1773 Personally appears JEROME HEINTZELMAN & GEORGE SAY, two of 
the Subscribing Witnesse to the within Will & on their Corporal Oath did depose & say that they were present & saw & heard John Ereman the 
Testator within Named, Sign Seal and Publish promise and declare the within Named will as and for his last Will & Testament & that at the 
doing thereof he was of sound mind Memory & Understanding to the best of their knowledge, observation & belief. 

Edwd. Shippen. Be it remembered that on the Fifth day of April Anno Domini 1773 the last Will and Testament of John Ereman, late of Warwick ownship in the County of Lancaster, Yeoman, deceased was proved in due form of law &letters Testamentary were granted to Nicholas Morrett & 
Christian Gyge the Executors therein named, they being first duly qualified well and truly to administer the Estate of the Testator and to 
exhibit a true and perfect Inventory thereof into the Register's Office at Lancaster on or before the Fifth day of May next & to render a true 
& Just Account of their Administration when thereto lawfully required. 
Given under the Seal of said Office. 
Edwd Shippen