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Henry Mohler, -1774
C Vol 1 p228 Henry Mohler, dec'd
In the name of God, Amen, Henry
Mohler of Cogallico Township being weak in body but sound in memory and
senses therefore remembering that by the will of God I shall soon be discharged
of my corporality. I hereby make this my last will and Testament
in the following manner Viz:
I order that my wife and children shall
carry on all business in my family and my plantation in like manner as
if I was alive from the date here of for the Term of four years next following
and at the profit and income both of mine real and personal Estate within
that term shall be the property of my said wife provided she pays within
that term all Debts, which I have contracted and also gives all my children
within that term sufficient maintenance and education. But if said
debts should not be discharged within that term, then my two eldest sons
shall be bound to pay them besides the valuation money for my lands and
that in equal shares. After the expiration of said terms my children
under fourteen years shall be under the tuition of my wife until only is
fourteen years. Each shall have from her proper education and a years
schooling all Expenses for said Education to be paid to my wife by my two
eldest sons in equal shares, besides their consideration money for the
lands so much as my Executors or my surviving shall think proper.
To my beloved wife I give the Sum
of One hundred pounds Pennsylvania currency, to be paid to her by my two
sons in equal share from the first money arising from said lands the first
year. Forty pounds the second year the same sum and the third year
Twenty pounds which sum shall be deducted from the money which they shall
pay for my lands. Item: I give and bequeath to my wife all my kitchen
furniture, tools and implements to be in possession thereof by her when
said four years are expired. Item: I give to her all flax, hemp,
linen, beds, and beddings found in my family when said four years are expired,
except that she at the expiration of said term shall give to each of my
eldest sons a feather bed. I give to her full power to dispose of
all said Articles by a last will. Item: I give to her further
the following articles and privileges in my Estate, but only during the
term of her remaining a widow and not further viz; my two oldest
sons shall supply her at the expiration of said four years every year with
eight bushels of wheat, three bushels of rye, five bushels of Book wheat,
and they shall for her use keep the best cow of more cows in good Summer
or Winter fodder and they shall supply her with sufficient fire wood, fittned
for her use and brought before her door and also every year shall they
supply her with half a hog weighing with the grease no less than eighty
pounds with seventy five pounds of good beef and she shall share the free
use of a dwelling room in the second story of my house and my executor
shall take care that a proper room be made for her dwelling in my house
in the second story provided will with all things needed and the other
room opposite so that shall also be for her use. She also shall have
the free use of the washing house and of my cellar which she likes best
and one third part of my garden, one half an acre of land, three wagon
loads of dung every year and also three barrels of cyder every year and
so many apples brought by my sons in her cellar as she thinks but also
shall she have the free use of the bake oven and of a riding horse, as
necessity requires it and further every year fifteen pounds of hetcheled
hemp or flax together with eight pounds of tallow every year. To
my two eldest sons I give all my personal Estate not allready herein bequeathed
to be divided among them, when said four years are expired Shares alike,
under condition, that they shall pay to all my heirs (themselves included)
for said personal estate to the sum of One hundred and seventy pounds in
Term as shall be mentioned and my eldest son shall have for every year
he stays in my family above his Age the sum of twelve pounds, to be paid
from my estate as other debts.
Further after four years are expired all
my Real Estate shall be divided by my Executor in two equal shares according
to the quantity of acres and appropriated the same to my two eldest sons.
My eldest son Shall have that part, where my dwelling house stands.
Said my two sons shall pay for said lands the sum of fifteen Hundred Pounds
money. Aforesaid to be distributed among all my heirs themselves
included share alike in manner following (together with the hundred and
twenty Pounds arising from the personal estate as aforesaid. Viz: first
my eldest son shall have a legacy of ten pounds, provided he (qitttes?)
his double share, further shall each of said my two sons pay every immediately
following year after the Expiration of said four years, The sum of twenty
pounds money aforesaid until the whole debt is discharged and after my
wife is paid, my two married daughters shall have their share of which
my eldest daughter Mary hath upon account of her portion received the sum
of sixty four pounds and my other daughter Elizabeth the same sum which
must be deducted and they shall pay the eldest of my children their share
first and said my two sons shall have shares the last. Item.
Said my two sons shall supply my wife every year as a fore said with four
pounds of wool and with one third part of all the eggs in my premises.
Further I order and invest my executors, in order to keep the balance between
said my two sons to value. Lands of each and according to that valuation
to make them equal in their shares by obliging him which hath the best
part to pay so much to the other until they are equal and herewith my said
sons shall be satisfied and further I hereby impower my Executor or any
of them then surviving when said my two sons shall have paid for their
lands or given sufficient security to my Executors to give to them good
lawful Deeds for said Lands, to have to hold said Lands to them their Heirs
and Assigns for Ever, which hereby acknowledge as lawful as if done by
myself.
Finally I constitute Executors of this
my Last Will and Testament and my two friends Daniel Bowman and Jacob Keller
junior. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my name and
seal this Nineteenth day of April Anno Domini One Thousand Seven Hundred
and Seventy- Four. Witnesses Jacob Gensemer and John Landes
Jacob Sensenman and John Landes the two Witnesses
affirmed and Daniel Bowman and Jacob Keller the Executors affirmed the
Seventh Day of May A D 1774
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