Greenbrier County, West Virginia - Will of Philip SYDENSTRICKER - 1833 ********************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ********************************************************************** ********************************************************************** The records for this work have been submitted by Submitted by Darla Ruebush (darbush @wizrealm.com), April, 1998. ********************************************************************** ********************************************************************** Greenbrier County, West Virginia - Will of Philip SYDENSTRICKER - 1833 Will of Philip SYDENSTRICKER Testator: Philip Sydenstricker of Greenbrier County, West Virginia Will dated: 28 July 1833 Will proved: September Term 1833 Executors: Sons, Philip and Jacob Sydenstricker Witnesses: Lewis Stuart and Andrew Fleshman Source: Will Book 2; page 5; Greenbrier County, West Virginia By the Permission of God. I Philip Sydenstricker of the County of Greenbrier do make and ordain this to be my Last Will and Testament - First I give and bequeath to my two sons John & Jacob the Plantation on which I reside to be divided agreeably to a conditional line which has been agreed on. I also give them my personal estate of every discription to be equally divided between them to them & their Heirs forever: But they are to pay to my son Philip four Hundred and seventy one Dollars and forty two cents and to my Daughter Elizabeth (Fleshman) four Hundred & seventy one dollars and forty two cents which is to be paid in The following manner each of them are to pay fifty dollars annually until the above legacies are discharged and it is my will that the payments be made in property at valuation. 2ndly I bequeath to my daughter Nancy a Tract of Land on the South side of Greenbrier River containing Three Hundred and forty acres during her natural Life and then to descend to her two sons Alexander and Cicero to them and their heirs forever- Having heretofore given to my sons Henry and David an equal proportion of my Estate they cannot expect more-- And Lastly, I hereby constituate [sic] my sons Philip & Jacob Executors of this my Last will & Testament-given under my hand & seal this 28th day of July 1833. Philip Sydenstricker (signed in German script) Teste L. Stuart Andrew Fleshman Greenbrier County Court September Term 1833-- This paper purporting to be the Last will & Testament of Phillip Sydenstricker deceased was presented in Court and proved by the oaths of Lewis Stuart and Andrew Fleshman subscribing witnesses thereto to have been duly executed and acknowledged and the same is ordered to to [sic] recorded and thereupon Phillip Sydenstriker [sic] & Jacob Sydenstriker [sic] the executors therein named appeared in Court & took the oath prescribed by Law and also entered into bond in the sum of $2000 with Lewis Stuart their security conditioned as the Law directs, Letters Testamentary is therefore granted them in due form of Law. Teste: John Mathews Submitted by Darla Ruebush (darbush@wizrealm.com)