Wills: Mathias Slaymaker 1762 Lancaster Co., PA. File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Jon Althouse. jalthouse@bfaz.org USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material.These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. ____________________________________________________________ Mathias SLAYMAKER, 1762 Lancaster County Will Book C; Vol 1 Page 43 Mathias Slaymaker deceased In the Name of God Amen the twenty fifth Day of November in the Year of our Lord one Thousand seven hundred Sixty two. I Mathias Slaymaker of [Stras]burg Township Lancaster County province of Pennsylvania yeoman being very sick and weak in Body but of Perfect mind and memory, thanks be given unto God therefore. Calling to mind the [Mortality] of my Body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die do make and ordain this my [last] Will and Testament that is to say Principally and first of all I give and recommend my Soul [into] the Hands of God that give it and my Body I recommend it to the Earth to be buried in a Christ like and decent manner nothing doubting but at the General Resurrection to receive the Same again by the mighty power of God and as touching such worldly Estate wherewith God hath been pleased to bless me in this Life I give and dispose of the same in the manner & form following first of all it is my will and I do order it that all my Just debts and funeral Charges be paid and Satisfied Secondly I give and bequeath unto the Heir of my oldest Son Lawrence Slaymaker deceased ten shillings to be levied out of my Estate Thirdly I will and bequeath unto my Daughter Margaret one hundred pounds to be levied out of my Estate one year after my decease Fourthly I will and bequeath unto my Daughter Barbara the Sum of one Hundred pounds which she received from me at Sundry times and ten shillings more to be levied out of my Estate fifthly I will and bequeath unto my Son Mathias Slaymaker all that Messuage or Tract of Land that now he respectively dwells upon and the Sum of ten shillings to be levied out of my Estate Sixthly I will and bequeath in like manner aforesaid unto my two sons John & Henry Slaymaker the Lands they respectively dwell on and ten shillings each of them to be levied out of my Estate Finally I will and bequeath unto my Youngest Son Dan[ ] Slaymaker all the remainder of my Estate real & personal and do constitute and appoint him to Execute this my last Will and Testament and I do hereby utterly disallow revoke and dis[ ] all and every other former Testaments Wills or Legacys & Executors by me in any wise before this time named willed and bequeathed ratifying & Confirming this and no other to be my last Will and Testament In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal the day & year above written Mathias [ ] Slaymaker /seal/ Signed Sealed published pronounced by me the said Mathias Slaymaker to be my last Will and Testament William White John Liggit Proved: Lancaster County fs On the Eighteenth Day of December Anno Domine 1762