Wills: Mathias Hauser/ Housser, 1783: Lancaster/Lebanon County

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Will of Mathias Hauser/Housser, 1783
of Lebanon Township, Lancaster (now Lebanon) County, Pennsylvania

Will Book E, Vol. 1, page 14, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Written: 18 April 1783
Recorded: 24 April 1784

MATHIAS HAUSER, deced.

IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN.  I Mathias Housser of Lebanon Township in the
County of Lancaster in the State of Pennsylvania, Yeoman being sick and weak
in Body but of Sound and disposing Mind Memory and understanding Do make and
publish, and declare this my Last will and Testament in Manner and Term
following, that is to say, Imprimis It is my Will and I do Order that all my
Just Debts shall be paid off and discharged, as soon as conveniently may be
after my decease.  Item I give Devise and Bequeath unto my beloved wife
Susanna, and my Daughter Susanna, and the Child with which my wife is now
Ensient, be it Male of Female, All my whole Estate both Real and Personal,
to be divided equally between them (Excepting two hundred and forty
Continental Dollars, which my Eldest Son Henry owes me and which Debt or Sum
of Money I do hereby give and bequeath unto my said Son Henry in full for
his whole Share and Portion in my whole Estate both Real and Personal.)  And
whereas I am far advanced in years and in Indigent Circumstances and the
small Estate which I now hold I have acquired since my Intermarriage with my
said wife Susanna, It is therefore my will and I do Order that none of my
Children by my first or former wife shall have or Receive any part of my
Estate either Real or Personal (Except my Son Henry as aforesaid) but they
and each of them shall be forever excluded off and from the Same and all
Estate therein.  And as the small Piece of Land which I now live on
belonging to Jacob Light which he promised to Convey to me either for so
much per acre or purchase money, or Yearly Rent, which purchase Money is not
yet paid I do therefore Request the said Jacob Light to Convey the said
Piece of about four Acres and three quarters of an Acre of Land, unto my
beloved wife Susanna either in Fee Simple or at Yearly Rent as he and my
wife may agree for the only uses hereinbefore mentioned.  And I do further
Will and Order that my said wife may Sell and Convey the Premises aforesaid
at any time after my decease and that she shall have keep and enjoy the one
third Part thereof for her own Uses and the other two third part shall be
equally divided between my said daughter Susanna and the Child with which my
wife is now Ensient as aforesaid.  And I do hereby nominate Constitute and
Appoint my said wife Susanna sole Executrix of this my last will and
Testament hereby authorizing and impowering my said Executrix to call on my
Son Jacob Housser for the five Notes which I put into his Hands to Receive
or Recover for me and in Case he my said Son Jacob should neglect or Refuse
to Deliver up the said Notes, or the Money he has Received on them, then I
hereby Authorize and impower my said Executrix to take all lawful ways and
means for the Recovery of the same.  And Lastly I do hereby publish and
declare this to be and contain my Last will and Testament.  In Witness
whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal this Eighteenth Day of April in
the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty three.

Signed, Sealed published pronounced and declared            his
by the above named Mathias Houser The Testator      Matthias H Housser  (Seal)
and and for his last Will and Testament, in                 mark
Presence of us.

Jacob Light.  John Thome.

LANCASTER COUNTY, to wit, On the Twenty fourth Day of April Anno Domini
1784.  Before me the Subscriber personally appeared Jacob Light and John
Thome Esquire, the two Subscribing Witnesses to the foregoing Will, and the
said Jacob Light on his Solemn Affirmation according to Law and the said
John Thome on his Corporal Oath, respectively did declare, depose and say
That they were present and saw and heard Mathias Housser the Testator
therein named make his mark to and Seal publish pronounce and declare the
same Writing as and for his Last Will and Testament.  And that at the doing
thereof he was of sound and well disposing Mind Memory and Understanding to
the Best of their Knowledge Observation and Belief.
                                            Philip Gloninger, Dept. Reg.

BE IT REMEMBERED that on the Twenty fourth Day of April Anno Domini 1784 the
Last will and Testament of Mathias Housser late of Lebanon Township in the
County of Lancaster Yeoman deceased was proved in due Form of Law, and
Letters Testamentary thereon were granted to Susanna Hausser the Executrix
therein named, she having first been duly qualified well and truly to
Administer the Estate of the said Decedent and especially to exhibit a true
and perfect Inventory thereof into the Register's Office at Lancaster on or
before the Twenty fourth Day of May next, and to Render a just and true
Account of her Administration on the said Estate within one year from the
date hereof or when thereto lawfully required.  Given under the seal of the
said office.