WILL: Adam MILLER, 1827, Bedford Borough, Bedford County, PA

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Bedford County, Pennsylvania Will Book 2, pp. 253-254

WILL OF ADAM MILLER

In the name of God Amen, I Adam Miller of the Borough of Bedford, Bedford 
County, and State of Pennsylvania, being sick and weak in body but of sound mind 
memory and understanding (praised be God for it) and considering the certainty 
of death and the uncertainty of the time thereof, and to the end I may be the 
better prepared to leave this world whenever it shall please God to call me 
hence do therefore make and declare this my last will and Testament in manner 
following, that is to say; first and principally I commend my soul into the 
hands of Allmighty God my creator hoping for free pardon and remission of all my 
sins and to enjoy everlasting happiness in the heavenly kingdom, through Jesus 
Christ my Saviour, my body I commit to the earth at the discretion of my 
Executor hereinafter named. And as to such worldly estate wherewith it hath 
pleased God to intrust I dispose of the same as follows viz: I will that all my 
just debts as shall be by me owing at my death together with any funeral 
expenses and all charges touching the proving of so otherwise concerning this my 
will, shall in the first place out of my property be fully paid and satisfied. 
First it is my will that all my tools and household furniture be sold by my 
Executor on public sale except those Chitchen furniture, which my beloved wife 
Catharine shall want for her use of which she may have her own choice - and that 
one of my houses and Lots shall be sold along with, either public or private to 
the best advantage of my estate, if sufficient to pay my debts, the lower one, 
if not sufficient then the upper one, all the money which is left and collected 
in, of my Estate after all my Debts are paid, shall be put out on interest which 
interest my loveing wife Catharine shall draw annually for her support, and if 
that is not sufficient for her support she shall have a right to the principal 
sum as much as will support her sufficient under the discretion of my Executor 
as long as she bears my name, further it is my will that my said wife Catharine, 
shall have my house wherein I now live, altogether for her use and home as long 
as she bears my name which house and lot and the rest of my Estate shall fall to 
my two children Henry his heirs, and my daughter Elizabeth in equal shares - And 
I make and ordain my trusty friend Dr. J.H. Hofius Executor of this my last will 
and testament - further I will and bequeath unto my Grandchild Caty Bailer* one 
Beaurow -

Adam Miller {Seal}

Signed, Sealed and acknowledged
by the testator, in the presence of the
subscriber as his last will and testament
Henry Gerhast, Wm. Mardorff

Pennsylvania
Bedford County SS. On the 11th day of December A.D. 1827 Personally came before 
the Subscriber Register for the probate of wills and granting Letters of 
administration in and for said County - The Revd. Henry Gerhart and William 
Mardorff the subscribing Witnesses to the aforegoing instrument of writing who 
being duly sworn according to law, do depose and say that they were personally 
present and heard and saw the testator Adam Miller sign seal publish pronounce 
and declare the aforegoing instrument of writing as and for his last Will and 
testament that at the time thereof the said testator was of sound and disposing 
mind memory and understanding, according to the best of these deponents 
knowledge and belief and that they subscribed their names thereto as witnesses 
in presence of the testator and at his request.

Henry Gerhart
Wm. Mardorff

Sworn and Subscribed
Before me
Job Mann
Register

Be it Remembered that on the 12th day of December A.D. 1827 Letters Testamentary 
were granted to Dr. John H. Hofius Executor in the aforegoing will named he 
having first been duly sworn according to law - And also sworn agreeably to the 
direction of the Acts of Assembly, entitled, "an act relating to Collateral 
inheritance."