WILL: John SCHWEIGART, 1779, Earl Township, Lancaster County, PA

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Source: Will Book Y, Vol. 2, P. 593, Lancaster Courthouse
Written: April 29, 1778
Recorded: January 12, 1779

John Schweigart Dec’d
In the name of God Amen. I John Schweigart of Earl Township 
in the County of Lancaster being sick of Body but 
of sound memory and understanding and calling to mind the uncertainty of my 
life therefore I do hereby make my Last Will and Testament in manner following 
that is to say, First it is my will that my movable goods shall be sold and 
the money thereof applied towards paying my debts And further it is my will 
that my beloved wife Susanna shall and may carry on the housekeeping with my 
children as usual for the Term of four years and at the expiration of the said 
years they may (if my executors think it proper) continue the housekeeping in 
manner aforesaid until one of  my children becomes able to take possession of 
my Place or if my Executors shall find it good they shall divide my Plantation 
in two parts and further it is my will that my eldest son Abraham shall have 
five pounds for his birth right and no more and further it is my will that my 
wife Susanna shall have Interest arising from the sum of money appraised for 
my Plantation and fifteen Bushels of wheat and Ten bushels of  Rye and those 
children who have possession of the place shall yearly deliver the said  
articles to my wife and fifteen pounds of hackled (?) hemp or flax and keep a 
cow in fodder for her of give her the fodder for keeping a cow and sixty 
Pounds of Pork and forty Pounds of Beef and five pounds of wool a barrel of 
good cider and her widowhood  in the House and if she cannot agree with them 
then they must erect her a House separate and they must cut her the firewood 
and deliver to her house as much as necessary and all these bequest shall be 
paid and raised out of my Plantation and further it is my will that all my 
children shall have equal shares one like the other and further it is my will 
that my appointed executors shall have a right to make and give good and 
sufficient Deeds as good as if I had made and given them myself Further I 
nominate and appoint  my beloved Friends George Schweigart and John Bitzer 
Executors and Guardians of this my last will and Testament. In Witness 
whereof  I have hereto set my hand and seal the 29thday of April 1778. Signed 
sealed and declared by the Testator as his last will and Testament in the 
presence of us as witnesses.    John Nears John Sieler 
						John  his X mark Schwiegart 
(seal)
Lancaster County SS On the twelfth day of January 1779 Before me the 
subscriber personally appeared John Neiss and John Seiler the two subscribing 
Witnesses to the within will and on their solemn affirmations according to Law 
and declare and say that they were present and saw and heard John Sweigart the 
Testator within named sign and publish pronounce and declare the within 
writing as and for his last will and Testament and that at the doing thereof 
he was of sound mind memory and understanding to the best of their Knowledge 
observation and Belief.                Sam’l Turbett Dep. Regr.
Be it remembered that on the twelfth day of April Anno Domini 1779 that the 
Last Will and Testament of John Sweigart was approved in due form of Law and 
Letters Testamentary thereon were granted to George Sweigart and John Bitzer 
the executors therein named who being first duly qualified well and truly to 
administer the Estate of the deced and to exhibit a true and perfect Inventory 
thereof into the Registers Office at Lancaster on or before the twelfth day of 
May next and to render a true and just account of the administration on the 
said Estate when thereto lawfully required. Given under the seal of said 
Office.                                                     John Hubley 
Register


Additional Comments:
translation of orginal German Will and rerecorded in Book Y.

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