WILL: Jacob HOLTZINGER, 1760, Earl Township, York County, PA

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THE WILL OF JACOB HOLTZINGER---


WHERAS, I, JACOB HOLTZINGER, WELL KNOWING THE UNCERTAINTY OF HUMAN LIFE HAVE 
THEREFORE THOUGHT TO MAKE PROVISION FOR MY WIFE VERONICA, CHILDREN AND HEIRS, 
RECOMMENDING MY SOUL AND SPIRIT IN THE HANDS OF GOD.
FIRST, IT IT IS MY LAST WILL THAT AFTER MY DECEASE MY PERSONAL ESTATE SHALL BE 
DIVIDED IN THE MANOR FOLLOWING.

MY WIFE VERONICA SHALL HAVE IN THE FIRST PLACE TWO HORSES FOR WORKING AND A 
YOUNG COLT AFOREHAND AND THREE COWS AND THREE SHEEP AFOREHAND AND ALL OTHER 
MOVEABLES  OF WHAT NAME SOEVER SHALL BE SOLD BY PRIVATE SALE OR AUCTION AND MY 
ELDEST SON BERNHARD SHALL HAVE FIRST FIVE POUNDS LAWFUL MONEY OF PENNSYLVANIA, 
AFOREHAND AND HE THE SAID BERNHARD HOLTZINGER AND MY SON JOHN JACOB SHALL EACH 
OF THEM HAVE THE SUM OF FIFTEEN POUNDS BY REASON OF THEIR DECEASED MOTHER BEING 
TOGETHER THIRTY POUNDS AND ALL THE RESIDUE AFTER MY WIFE VERONICA HAS TAKEN HER 
THIRD PART THEREOF
SHALL BE DIVIDED AMONG MY NOW LIVING CHILDREN IN EAQUAL SHARES ONE AS MUCH AS 
THE OTHER MY OTHER FIVE CHILDREN AND I APPOINT MY WIFE VERONICA EXECUTRX OR 
GAURDIAN OF MY YOUNGER CHILDREN.

AND, AS TO THE PLANTATION, I ORDER AND IT IS MY WILL THAT THE PLANTATION AND THE 
LAND THERETO SHALL BE PRESERVED FOR MY TWO SONS CONRAD AND ENGLEHARD WITHOUT 
DIVIDING IT UNTIL MY TWO YOUNGER SONS HAVE ATTAINED THEIR AGE AND THE MOTHER 
SHALL NOT ONLY HAVE THE HAVE THE THIRDPART OF THE BENEFITS THEREOF BUT ALSO AS 
LONG AS SHE REMAINS A WIDOW AND MY YOUNGEST SONS HAVE NOT ATTAINED THEIR AGE SHE 
SHALL HAVE LIBERTY TO USE THE WHOLE PLACE WITH HER CHILDREN BUT IF SHE SHOULD 
MARRY AGAIN THEN ONLY THE THIRD PART OF THE BENEFIT OF THE LANDS SHALL BE IN HER 
POSESSION ACCORDING TO LAW.

AND, WHEN MY YONGER SONS CONRAD AND ENGLEHARD HAVE ATTAINED THEIR AGE THE 
PLATATION SHALL BE APPRAISED AND THE PRICE OR MONEY FOR IT MAY BE APPRAISED IN 
LIKE MANNER AS ABOVE MENTIONED MOVEABLES BE DIVIDED AMONG MY NOW LIVING CHILDREN 
OR THEIR HEIRS IN EQUAL SHARES TO THE ELDEST AS MUCH AS THE YOUNGEST.

BUT, NEVERTHLESS, MY SAID WIFE SHALL FURTHER HAVE MY BED OUT OF THE ABOVE 
MENTIONED MOVEABLES. AND MY DAUGHTER ANNA MARIA HOLTZINGER ALSO SHALL HAVE A BED 
WITH ALL THERETO BELONGING AND A CHEST AFOREHAND. 

THAT THE ABOVE IS MY LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT I HEREBY CERTIFY WITH MY OWN HAND 
AND SEAL IN EARL TOWNSHIP UPON MY PLANTATION IN LANCASTER COUNTY IN THE YEAR OF 
OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY ON THE TWENTY SEVENTH DAY OF 
OCTOBER. 


                                                                                                    
JACOB HOLTZINGER


WITNESSES--HENRY KEMPER, MICHAEL OBERLIN, AND EARL HAUER.

TRANSLATED BY CASPER SHAFNER NOVEMBER 29, 1774, AT THE REQUEST OF THOMAS 
HARTLEY.
PROBATED BEFORE EDWARD SHIPPIN, REGISTER.


BURIED AT BERGSTRASSE LUTHERAN CHURCH, LANCASTER PENNSYLVANIA