Last Will & Testament of Peter Walmer II

Transcribed by Steven Matthew Hahn, 27 December 2007

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In the name of God Amen I Peter Walmer Jr., of East Hanover township Dauphin county in the state of Pennsylvania being at present very sick & weak of body but of sound mind and memory thanks be unto the great God. that he has preserved my senses until now that I may make my last will by these presents that is to say principally and first of all I recommend my soul into the hands of Almighty God who gave it and my body to the earth to be buried by my relatives in an honorable and Christian like manner and as to such wordly estate as it hath pleased God to bless me with I give and dispose of in the following manner.

First. My beloved wife Barbar shall have her widow seat in the new adjoining building as long as she lives and nobody shall have the ...[torn]... without her special leave. Also the ten plate stove the small table which I have in use her plates pots and sadels which she received from her father her bed & whatsoever belongs thereunto. She shall have the equal part of the ready money cloathing nevertheless the two youngest boys shall have fifteen pounds advance for the purpose of education in Christianity and Godliness as also a cow of which shall have her choice of all which she must thereafter keep and shall be fed for her from the person who keeps the place and at the same place where his is kept further she shall have from the plantation for her support fierwood as much as she may use which is to be cut hall'd and made fit for to put in the stove for her yearly and ten bushels of wheat four bushels of rye and three bushels of Indian corn the grain must be delivered to the mill and the flour to the house or dwelling further she shall have yearly one quarter of an acre of flax prepared & sowed as also one hundred cabbage vegetables in the garden as much as she shall have occasion one hundred pounds of pork and four pounds of wool. My first born son Peter, shall have five pounds ready money for his birthright nor more nor less. Four weeks after my decease my personal property shall be sold by publick vendue excepting two yoke of oxen which the child who rents the plantation shall have in the bargain; the place shall be rented for three years and my said son Peter shall have the first offer of renting as also to purchase after the expiraion of the said three years before any of the other children. Any of the children that may rent the place shall have the choice of four yoke of oxen; after the expiration of the said three years the Executors shall choose twelve men to value and appraise the said place and if my said son Peter will not take the plantation at the appraisement then my second son George as by renting the place shall enjoy the same privildge and if he does not want it then it shall go to the other children agreeable to the order of their age. But it shall neither be sold nor rented to strangers. The money arising therefrom shall then be divided among the children in equal shares according to their age. And that every person may know this to be my last will and testament I constitute make and ordain absolute my two brothers John & George Walmer both of the same township & county, Executors Administrators of the my last will and testament revoking and disanulling hereby all and every other former wills and testaments by me heretofore made ratifying and confirming this ...[torn]... to be my last will and testament as published and declared. Sealed and signed by me the seventh of July in the year of salvation 1794.

Peter Walmer Jr.

Christian Zehring

Conrad Roth

Henry Schreiber