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Henry
Mohler, Sr -1769
IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN.
I Henry Mohler Senior of Cogollico Township, Lancaster County, being
sick but of sound memory and Senses, thanks be unto God, therefore calling
into mind the Mortality do make hereby this Twenty Second day of
August Anno One Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty Nine mine last Will and
Testament in manner as followeth.
Imprimis, I recommend my soul unto God my maker and my body to my Family
to be interred decently and after my funeral charged and other just debts
are paid out of my Estate I dispose of the Residue in the following manner.
To my beloved Wife Barbara, I bequeath the sum of one hundred pounds Pennsylvania
Currency to be her property forever which sum shall be paid first after
all my other debts are paid. Further I ordain that she shall
have all the profits, uses , incomes and Rents of that Plantation whereon
I live at present, so long till my Second Son John shall be arrived at
his lawfull age for which income she shall be bound to Educate and maintain
my children untill my second son has his age. But if my Executors
should see that my said Wife should neglect my said Children or Plantation
then they shall have power to rent out said my Plantation and pay
her the Rent to the aforesaid use during the said Term. And my Executors
shall be Guardians over all my minor children untill their lawfull age.
Further supposing that my beloved wife maintaineth well said my Family,
I ordain she shall have all the use Profits and income of all my
Movable Estate during the aforesaid Term but if my Executors should find
it necessary to rent out said my Plantation as aforesaid, then I ordain,
that they shall sell all my Movable Estate at Public Vendue.
Item, I ordain that when said my Plantation should be rented out, or any
other Necessity should call for it that then my Executors shall built a
convenient House somewhere on my Plantation where they think proper for
my wife's use, to live therein during the Term of her being a Widow, and
so long she shall also enjoy the use of one third part of her garden and
further I bequeath to said my Wife one fadder bed with all cloath's thereto
belonging, one chest, one Iron Pot, one frying Pan, one Pewter Dish, two
plates to be her property forever. And further ordain that any of
my sons which shall have the Plantation whereon I now Live shall give her
from said my Plantation from the first year of his taking Possession thereof,
every succeeding year during the Term of her remaining a widow twenty pounds
of good sound Pork, twenty Pounds Beaf, eight bushels of Wheat, the Loan
of a Horse, when occasion requires necessary, Firewood to be
cut and brought before her Door, upon said my Sons charges and to keep
her a cow in Fodder and Pasture during the Term. But if my wife should
marry again then and from thenceforth all allowance granted her from said
my Plantation shall cease and she besides the Legacy of one hundred Pounds
and the above mentioned Household utincels shall have no further
right to my Estate either Real or Personal.
My Eldest Son Martin shall have my Plantation which I have lately bought
from William Heaster and further he shall have from my Plantation joining
the aforesaid Plantation and whereon I live at present, forty acres
more, to be taken by Advice of four Arbitrators indifferently chosen.
Further I ordain that my said Son Martin shall have one Majority of another
Tract of Seventy acres which I have bought from Daniel Good to be likewise
divided by four Arbitrators indifferently chosen.
Item I ordain that my Son John shall have the Plantation whereon I live
at present (the afore mentioned forty acres excepted) and further I ordain
that he shall have the other majority of the aforesaid Seventy Acres, to
be divided as aforesaid.
Further I ordain that four men indifferently chosen between my sons and
my Executors shall value all above mentioned Lands which said valued Price
from said Lands shall be divided among all my Heirs from said my Wife Barbare
when first my legacies are thereof deducted) shares alike. And said
my Sons after having deducted their respective shares shall pay the
rest of their Co-Heirs Elizabeth and Susanna in terms
ordained by the aforesaid Arbitrators. And further I ordain that
my said Two Sons also satisfy the other Heirs as aforesaid, or giving
good security for their shares. My Executors or any of them
then alive shall by good lawfull deeds convey over to each of my
sons his respective share of land as aforesaid to have an to hold said
Lands, to him his heirs and assigns for Ever, and such Deeds I acknowledge
hereby as valid and lawfull, as if I had Executed the same in person.
To my son Jacob I give and bequeath the sum of thirty pounds money aforesaid
to be paid within a half year after my death and besides this neither he
nor his Heirs shall have any right ot my Estate.
To my Son Henry I give and bequeath the sum of thirty pounds money aforesaid
and besides it neither he nor his Heirs shall have any right to my Estate.
Item I give and bequeath to the Poor the sum of ten pounds to be divided
to them by said my Executors.
Item, I ordain that my son Martin being yet under age shall pay rent from
the Lands allotted to him until he shall have been arrived to his age every
year twelve pounds money aforesaid. Item, I ordain the residue of
my Estate not disposed hereinbefore shall be divided among said my Heirs
Martin, John Elizabeth and Susanna shares alike and my son Martin shall
not have two shares. Finally I constitute Executors of this my last
Will and Testament my loving friend John Landes and my son Henry Mohler
to which I have the best Confidence. In Witness whereof I have hereunto
set my Hand and Seal the Day and Year first above written· his
Henry X Moler
mark
Signed Sealed and Acknowledged
by he Testator to be his last Will and Testament in the presence of us,
underwritten Witnesses who saw him sign and seal the Same Joseph Hershberger,
Isaac Hershberger, Jacob Mohler
Lancaster County SS
On the twenty second Day of September Anno Domini 1769 Before me the Subscriber
personally appeared Joseph Hershberger and Isaac Hershberger two of the
subscribing Witnesses to the within will and on their solemn affirmation
according to Law did declare and say that they were present and saw and
heard Henry Moler the Testator above named Sign Seal Publish pronounce
and declare the within writing and above writing as and for his last Will
and Testament and that at the doing there of he was of sound and well disposing
mind memory and understanding to the best of their Knowledge Observation
and Belief.
BE IT REMEMBERED that on
the Twenty second Day of September Anno Domini 1769 the last Will and Testament
of Henry Moler late of Cocallico Township in the county of Lancaster yeoman
deceased was proved in due form of and Letters Testamentary thereon was
granted to John Landis and Henry Moler Junior the Executors therein named
they being first duly qualified well and truly to administer the Estate
of the said decedent and to exhibit a true and perfect Inventory thereof
into the Registers Office at Lancaster on or before the Twenty second Day
of October next and to render a true and just account of their administration
on the said Estate when thereto lawfully required. Given under the Seal
of the said Office.
By me Edward Shippen D. R'r
Recorded in will Book B Vol 1, pg 637
© Brenda Creasy