Will of John DERTZENBAUGH (1815); Frederick County, MD

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In the name of God Amen.  I John Dertzenbaugh of Frederick County in the State 
of Maryland being, sick and weak in body, but of sound and disposing mind, 
memory and understanding, considering the certainty of death and the uncertainty 
of the time thereof, and being desirous to settle my worldly affairs and thereby 
being the better prepared to leave this world when it shall please God to call 
me hence, Do therefore make and publish this my last will and Testament in 
manner and form following, that is to say, First and principally I commit my 
soul unto the hand of Almighty God, and my body to the Earth to be decently 
buried at the discretion of my Executor hereinafter named, and after my debts 
and funeral charges are paid and my wife's thirds taken out I devise and 
bequeath as follows;

I give and bequeath unto my dear wife Christina Dertzenbaugh, over and above her 
thirds the following Goods and chattels viz: the Bed and bedstead which we have 
made use of for myself and wife with two Sheets, two Blankets, two Quilts, and 
all other the furniture thereunto belonging, six silver table spoons and six 
silver tea spoons, one large Bureau one dining and one breakfast Tables, one 
large Iron kettle, one large cedar Tub and one oak powdering tob, and one Hogg 
of which she may have the choice of my stock.

Item.  I give and bequeath unto my Daughter margaret the present wife of Mathias 
Bartges Junior fifty dollars current money to be paid her or her heirs by my 
Executor hereinafter named and in manner hereinafter mentioned and exclusive of 
her equal share hereafter bequeathed her.

Item my will and desire is and I do hereby order and direct, that my Executor as  
soona s my conveniently be after my death, make sale of all my Estate in such 
manner and ways as he shall think the most benificial to my family (except the 
Goods and chattels herein before bequeathed to my wife) and that as soon as may 
be convenient to my said Executor after the collection of the money aarising 
from such sale is made, and after my wife's thirds and the Legacy of fifty 
dollars bequeathed to my daughter Margaret Bartges are taken out of the gross 
amount, that the residue of the money so arising from said Sale shall be divided 
and paid over to all my children namely, Catharine my daughter the present wife 
of Jacob Fogler, Margaret the present wife of Mathias Bartges Jr., George 
Dertzenbaugh my son, Elizabeth Dertzenbaugh my daughter, and Susanna 
Dertzenbaugh my daughter equally share and share alike.

And lastly I do hereby constitute & appoint my dear friend John Grahame Esquire 
to be sole Executor of this my last will and Testament, revoking and annulling 
all former wills by me heretofore made, ratifying and confirming this and none 
other to be my last will and Testament.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto 
set my hand and affixed my seal this twenty fourth day of May in the year of our 
Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.

[signature]

Signed sealed and published and declared by John Dertzenbaugh the above named 
Testator as for for his last will and testament in the presence of us who at his 
request and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as witnesses 
thereto.

George Houck, Henry Getzendanner, Michael Ott