Northumberland County, Wills

LAST WILL & TESTAMENT of HENRY CONRAD, 1854
Lower Augusta Township, Northumberland County

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In the name of God Amen.  I, the undersigned, Heinrich Conrath of the State
of Pennsylvania, County of Northumberland residing in Lower Augusta Township.
Being in good health but considering the uncertainty of life, do make and
publish, while yet I am of sound mind, memory and understanding for which I
thank God, this my last Will and Testament to wit:

Principally and first of all I commend my immortal soul into the hands of my
God and to his everlasting mercy and my body to earth to be buried in a 
decent and christian like manner at the discretion of my Executors herein
after named.  Further, it is my will, that my wife Eva, shall receive the
interest of seven-hundred dollars yearly as long as she lives besides the 
money that she now has on interest, one bed, one cookstove, and a cow, as
many kitchen utensils as she uses or may need.  Should the interest be not
sufficient then she is to take of the Seven-hundred dollars as much as she
needs during her lifetime.  After her death what be left over is to go to
my children or their proper heirs, as she had promised to do this at the time
we were married.  As to my other estate which I leave behind, this may 
consist of buildings and notes, and the rest of my estate that I leave
behind, My Executors are to make sale of and turn into cash and all my just
debts be paid, whether this be for land or something else.  The money left
over shall be divided amongst my seven children.  Now I will name my seven
children, namely, my son Peter, Johannes and my son Heinrich and my daughter
Catharina and my daughter Esther and Eva and my daughter Maria.  Further it
is my will that none of my children shall receive anything until after they
become twenty-one years old, for any labor.  If should any of my children
protest this my will then it be my will that the sum of five dollars be 
their inheritance.  I hereby make and nominate my son Johannes D. Conrath 
and my son Heinrich Conrath as Executors of this my last Will and Testament
and recall any of my prior made wills and testaments.  In testamony whereof
I have set my hand and seal to this in Upper Augusta Township in the year
one thousand eight hundred fifty one, October third.

Signed and sealed
and declared as the last
will and testament, signed			Heinrich Conrath
by us.		
							(seal)
(no signatures on will)



Following be a codicil to my above last will and Testament.  I pronounce and
publish it be my daughter Eva shall not receive the same share, she shall 
only inherit half of what my other named children receive, namely Peter, 
Johannes, and Heinrich and my daughter Maria, Catharina and Esther, on the
Tenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and fifty three, signed and 
sealed as a codicil annexed to my last will and testament.


						Heinrich Conrath

							(seal)



Northumberland County, S.S:

	This first day of April A.D. 1854 before my John P. Pursel Register
for the probate of Wills etc. in and for said County, Personally came Peter
Conrad and Charles J. Conrad who being severally sworn according to the Law,
do say that they and each of them frequently saw Henry Conrad, the within
Testator write.  And are both well acquainted with the handwriting.  And
particularly with the signatures of the said testator to the within Will and
Codicil annexed and that they verily believe the within will and codicil and
signatures to be the said will and codicil to be the proper hand writing of 
the said Henry Conrad the Testator within named.

Sworn and subscribed before my
the day and year first above written		Peter Conrad
						Charles J. Conrad
Jno. P. Pursel, Register
per. Boyd Pursel, Depty.


[Translated by
Paul Noll, Sunbury
October 1937]

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