Wills: Martin Dormeyer, 1802: Lowhill Twp, Northampton Co

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Martin Dormeyer Will, 
In the Name of God Amen, the sixth Day of december in the Year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and two.  I Martin Dormeyer of
Lowhill Township in the County of Northampton and State of
Pennsylvania Yeoman being very Sick and Weak in Body but of perfect
mind and memory.

Thanks be given unto God therefor Calling unto 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 recomend my Soul into the
Hands of God that gave it and for my Body I recomend it to the Earth
to be buried in a Christian like and decent manner at the discretion
of my Executor nothing doubting but at the General Resurrection I
shall receive the same again by the mighty Power of God and as
touching such worldly Esate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me 
in this Life.  I give devise and dispose of the same in the following 
manner and form.

Imprimis it is my will and I do order That in the first place all my
just Debts and Funeral Charges be paid and satisfied.

Item, it is my will that my dearly beloved wife Magdalena shall have
Twenty five pounds of good andlawful money in Specie? of the state of
Pennsylvania one year aftermy decease for her use during her life
and further it is my will that she shall have all the Kitchin ware
and all the beds and the dresser in the corner of the room and the 
Iron Stove with the pipes and the Table and all the Chiers and 
spinning wheel an done Cow and the Bible and song book an d all the 
prayer books and all the Casks and all the flax and low and all
the linnen for her use during her life but she shall not sell any of
the said goods nor bestow any therefof to any person but in case she 
should marrie again then she shall have only her (crossed out: 
Bed and Chest and spinning wheel and the said twenty five pounds and 
the other of the said goods Shall be done with as hereafter follows) 
yearly Subsistance of Friederick Fetter who is bound by an article of 
agreement to give the same to her and the said goods shall be sold by 
public Vendue and if she should not marrie again then after her 
decease the said goods shall be sold by public Vendue and shall be 
divided among my Children as hereafter follows.

And it is my will that my Children shall all be in equal shares
Except my son Abraham shall have twelve pounds twelve shillings and 
six pence less then any of the others of my Children and Grand
Children 
and step daughters and step son and it is my will that my daughter
Catharina intermarried to Valentine Geist shall have first the sum 
of twenty five pounds in the Year 1807 and then my step son Jacob 
Dormeyer shall have twenty five pounds in the Year 1808 and then my 
son John Dormeyer shall have twenty five pounds in the year 1809 and 
then my daughter Anna Margaret intermarried to John Wagner shall have 
twenty five pounds in the year 1810 and then my son Peter Dormeyer 
shall have twenty five pounds in the year 1811 and then my daughter
Maria intermarried to Andrew Krauss shall have twenty five pounds in
the year 1812
and then my son Abraham Dormeyer shall have twelve pounds seven
shilling and six pence in the year 1813 and then the (crossed out:
Grand) Children of my step daughter Elisabeth intermarried to Andrew
Geist viz 
shall have twenty five pounds in the year 1815 and then theChildren
of 
my son Henry Dormeyer shall have twenty five pounds in the year 1816

And then the remainder of my Estate it is my will shall be equally
divided and begin to be paid to the first and so on to the last as 
above mentioned.  And I do Constitute make and ordain Henry Haas Esq 
and Friederich Fetter Executors of this my last Will and Testament

And I do hereby utterly disallow revoke and disannul all and every
other former Testaments wills Legacies and Executor by me in any way
before this Time named Willed and bequeathed Ratifying and Confirming
this and no other to be my Last Will and Testament in Witness whereof
I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal the Day and Year above said.

Signed Sealed Published pronounced and declared by the sd Martin
Dormeyer as his last Will and Testament in the presence of us 
the Subscribers

Martin (X) Dormeyer

Jacob Leiber
George Kraus