Wills: George Wertz, 1837: Bedford Co, PA

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WILL BOOK III.  GEORGE WERTZ.   Page 95, 96.
Will dated:  February 22, 1836.
Probated:   February 10, 1837.

WERTZ   In the name of God Amen.  I George WERTZ of the County of Bedford
WILL    and State of Pennsylvania being sick and weak in body but of sound 
and disposing mind, memory and understanding, concluding
 the Certainty of death and the uncertainty of the time thereof,  and being
desiring so little my worldly
affairs and thereby being the better prepared to leave this world when it
shall please  God to call me hence and therefore make and publish this my
last Will and Testament .  In manner form following that is to say first and
principally I commit my soul into the hands of Almighty God, and my body to
the Earth to be decently buried in a Christian  like manner at the discretion
of my Executrix herein after named and after my debts and funeral charges are
paid, I devise and bequeath as follows.  Firstly I give and bequeath to my
son  JOHN WERTZ  or his heirs  the sum of Three dollars. Secondly I give and
bequeath unto my son  GEORGE WERTZ  the sum of One dollar.  Thirdly I give
and bequeath unto my son  THOMAS WERTZ  the sum of One dollar. Fourthly I
give and bequeath unto my son  DANIEL WERTZ   the sum of One dollar.  Fifthly
I give and bequeath unto my son   WILLIAM WERTZ  the sum of One dollar.  And
further I give and bequeath unto my three daughters,  MARY TAYLOR,  ELIZBETH
KINTON  and ROSSINAH  MOWRY  one and each of them the sum of One Dollar, And
lastly after all my just debts are paid, I give to and bequeath the whole
rest and residue of my estate whether real or personal, and all my income and
everything I am possessed  of  Whatsoever or  Wheresoever to my Daughter
  MINTIA  WERTZ  and at the same time I do hereby constitute and appoint my
Daughter  MINTIA WERTZ   to sole Executrix of this my last Will and Testament
revoking all former Wills by me herefore 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 22nd day of February In the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred thirty-six.

Signed, sealed, and declared by  GEORGE WERTZ     }
 the above named testator as and for his last Will and   }  GEORGE [X] WERTZ
  [Seal]
Testament in the presence  of us who at his request }
on his presence  and in the presence  of each other   }
has subscribed  our names  as Witnessed there too.  }

JACOB HILL              JOHN S.  RITCHEY

Bedford County

Personally appeared before the subscriber Register for the probate of Wills
and granting Letters of Administration in and for said County, JACOB  HILL
and JOHN S. RICHEY  the subscribing witnessed to the foregone instrument of
Writing  and being duly sworn doth [deprise ?]   and say that they were
personally present  and heard and said the Testator   GEORGE WERTZ  sign by
making his mark, seal, publish, pronounce and declare the foregoing
instrument of Writing as and for  his last Will and Testament that at the
time thereof the Testator was of sound and disposing [?] memory and
understanding according to the best of deponents Knowledge and belief that
they subscribing there named thereto as witnessed  in the presence of the
Testator at his request and in the presence of each other.

Sworn and subscribed February 10, 1837 }                        JACOB HILL
Signed      JOHN G. MARTIN   Registrar                          JOHN S. RITCHEY

Be it remembered that on the    ?    day of       ?        Anna Domini one
thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven.  Letters of  Testamentary were equal
to the Executrix in the foregoing will named she having been first  duly
Sworn.
 JOHN G. MARTIN      Registrar