Will of Johann Jacob UTZ (1826); Frederick County, MD
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UTZ WILLS
Johann Jacob Utz, 1764-1826
In the name of God. Amen. I Jacob Utz of Frederick County and state of
Maryland being sick and weak of body but of sound 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 be thereby 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 into the
hands of the Almighty and my body to the earth to be decently buried at the
discretion of my Executors hereinafter named, and after my debts and funeral
charges be paid which I hereby order and direct my will is as follows, viz:
Items I give and bequeath into my dear wife Catherine the house and premises I
now occupy a lot or parcel of ground lying in Winters addition to the town of
Westminster and also the lands I hold in Baltimore County during her natural
life. I also give unto my dear wife Catharine Eight hundred dollars all my
household and kitchen furniture of every description all farming utensils my
horse and cow hay and straw potatoes and garden stuff with all kinds of
provisions in and about the house. Items I give and bequeath unto my four grand
children as follows. To Mary Grammar two hundred dollars To John Utz two
hundred dollars to Jesse Utz one hundred dollars and to Catharine Utz one
hundred dollars Item It is my will and desire and I do hereby so, order
authorize and direct that my said hereinafter named Executors sell convey and
transfer according to the title. I may have all the residue of my Estate
wherever situate be the same real person or mixed in such manner on such terms
as to them may seem most beneficial and the proceeds from the same to collect
together with the residue of all the debts rights and claims to which I may be
entitled and when so collected together I then order and direct my said
hereinafter named Executors to pay the foregoing legacies to the proper persons
to receive the same. Item I give and bequeath unto my daughter Polly Grammar
all ballences remaining on final settlement in the hands of my said hereinafter
named Executors and direct the same to be paid over unto her I also give and
bequeath after the death of my said wife Catherine To my daughter Polly
Grammer the house and premises we now occupy and the lot or parcel of ground
lying in Winters addition to Westminster and also all the lands in Baltimore
County as bequeath to my said wife Catharine during her life. And lastly I do
hereby constitute and appoint my friend Isaac Shriver and Jacob Grammer to be
sole Executors 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 witness whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and affixed my seal this thirty first day of October Eighteen hundred and
twenty six.
Jacob Utz (seal)
Signed, sealed, published and declared by
Jacob Utz the above named Testator, as and
for his last will and testament in the presences
of us who at his request in his presence the
presence of each other have inscribed our names
as witnesses thereto
Jacob Groves
Thomas Gurley
John Brown
Frederick County to wit: On the 9th day of November 1826 there came Isaac
Shriver and made oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God that the foregoing
instrument of writing is the true whole will and testament of Jacob Utz, late
of Frederick County, deceased, that hath come to his hands and possession, and
that he doth not know of any other.
Test. G. M. Eichelberger, Reg.
Frederick County to wit: On the 9th day of November 1826 there came Jacob
Groves and Thomas Gurley two of the subscribing witnesses to the foregoing last
will and testament of Jacob Utz, late of Frederick County, deceased, and made
oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God, that they did see the Testator
therein named sign and seal said will, that they heard him publish pronounce and
declare the same to be his last will and testament, that at the time of his so
dying he was to the best of their apprehensions of a sound and disposing mind
memory and understanding and that they together with John Brown the other
subscribing witness respectively subscribed their names as witness to said will
in the presence and at the request of the testator and all in the presence of
each other.
Test. G. M. Eichelberger, Reg.
To the Register of Wills of Frederick County
I Jacob Grammer being by Jacob Utz deceased of Frederick County appointed one of
the Executors by his last will and testament, do hereby refuse to act as such
and do therefore renounce all my right title, and claim of the same, as witness
my hand this seventh day of November Eighteen hundred and twenty six.
Jacob Grammer
Test. Jacob Groves
Transcribed from SAMPUBCO copy by Maureen Utz
Frederick County, Maryland, Will Book Vol # 9, page 504