Person:Christian Hershberger (13)

Will Abstract

Will of Christian Hershberger of Inwell Township in the County of Dauphin and State of Pennsylvania...

I will and bequeath to my son Samuel Hershberger my plantation one hundred and forty acres more or less situated in Inwell Township in the County of Dauphin adjoining the land of John Miller, Phil Baumgartner and others to hold him his heirs and assigns forever he must pay or course to be paid foresaid plantation the sum of twelve hundred pounds good lawful money of Pennsylvania as follows: four hundred pounds after my decease in case and fifty pounds yearly and every year till the twelve hundred pounds is paid my children of my secont wife Jacob, John, Abraham, Samuel, Henry, Elizabeth, Anna Mary and Anna shall have out of my Estate two hundred pounds of the first money more than my other children equal shares and the rest of my Estate shall be shared equal amongst the hole of my children Christian, Jacob, John, Abraham, Samuel, Henry, Catharine, Elizabeth, Anna Mary and Anna.

I will and bequeath unto my granddaughter Polly Handshue the sum of fifty pounds which shall remain in my hereafter mentioned Executors hands till she comes of age..

And I do hereby constitute my son Samuel Hershberger and John Reasor my sole executors of this my last will and testament

In witness whereof I the said Christian Hershberger have hereunto set my hand and seal the twentieth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and three.

Signed sealed published pronounced and declared by the said Christian Hershberger as his Last Will and Testament in the presence of the subscribers.

[Signed] Christian Hershberger [His X Mark]

Martin Meily, Catherine Miller [?]

Proved September 10th A.D. 1810

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Ancestry.com. Public Member Trees: (Note: not considered a reliable primary source).

   https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/76720410/person/30350981159/facts

2.   .

   Christian Hershberger
   Christian settled in Lebanon Township. No will is found for him and nothing much is known about his life.
   His wife's name is from a written history, giving her name as Mary Stouffer. This branch of the family changed their name to Harshbarger.
   
   http://ourfamilygenie.com/sites/default/files/Decendants%20of%20Jacob%20Hershberger%20pt1.pdf

3.   Pennsylvania, Tax and Exoneration, 1768-1801.

   Name: Christian Hershberger
   Year: 1773
   Town or Ward: Lebanon
   County: Lancaster
   Archive Rollname: 328

4.   Pennsylvania, Tax and Exoneration, 1768-1801.

   Name: Christian Hershberger
   Year: 1779
   Town or Ward: Lebanon
   County: Lancaster
   Archive Rollname: 328

5.   Pennsylvania, Tax and Exoneration, 1768-1801.

   Name: Christ Hershbarger
   Year: 1781
   Town or Ward: Earl
   County: Lancaster
   Archive Rollname: 329

6.   Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Septennial Census Returns, 1779-1863. (Harrisburg: Pennsylvania State Archives Series #7.26).

   Name: Christian Hershberger
   Residence Year: 1786
   Residence Place: Lebanon, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA

7.   Pennsylvania, United States. Pennsylvania, United States. Wills and Probate Records, 1683-1993. (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, 2015).

   Name: Christian Hershberger
   Probate Date: 20 Sep 1803
   Probate Place: Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA
   Inferred Death Year: Abt 1803
   Inferred Death Place: Pennsylvania, USA
   Item Description: Wills, Vol 1a-1c, 1785-1814

8.   United States. Department of the Treasury. Office of the Secretary. United States direct tax of 1798: tax lists for the state of Pennsylvania. (Washington [District of Columbia]: National Archives Microfilm Publication M372, 1962).

   Name: Christian Hershberger
   County: Dauphin
   Locality: Lebanon