Person:Johann Kiplinger (1)

Will of Daniel Kiplinger

In the name of God Amen. I Daniel Kiblinger of Shenandoah County. yeoman being very sick and weak in body but of perfect mind and memory thanks be given unto God calling unto mind the mortality of my body do make and ordain this my last Will and testament in manner following. I recommend my soul into the hand of almighty God that gave it and my body I recommend to the earth to be buried in a decent Christian burial at the discretion of my executors and as touching(?) such worldly estate wherewith it has pleased God to bless me in this life I give devise and dispose of the same in the following manner and form.

First I give and bequeath to Catharin my dearly beloved wife two beds table Iron Kettle Iron stove, Kitchen Covern(?) and then the third out of my whole estate the third of the land after her death come to my son John again.

Also I give to my son Jacob fifteen pounds out of my estate and that is to be paid six years after my death.

Also to my beloved son Adam I give ten pounds and that is to be paid to him eight years after my death. Also all my personal estate land & tenaments. I give and bequeth to him besides the wagon and four horses gears plow and shovel plow and wagon chain and then he is to pay to his sisters hundret and fifty pounds the first payment is to be five & twenty pounds to be paid to my daughter Catharin and that two years after my death

Also to my daughter Anna Mary I give and bequeth five and twenty pounds and my son John has to paid it four years after my death.

Also my daughter Elizabeth & my daughter Eve I give each of them fifty pounds and this is all ready paid to them.

Also I give and bequeth to my daughter Susana two cows and fifty pounds & my son John has to pay it four years after my death and when my son John has paid the full payment to his sisters he has one year time & then he has to pay five and twenty pounds to my daughter Catharin again and then one year after an other my son John shall pay to my daughter Anna Mary and to my daughter Susana five and twenty pounds each til the hundred and fifty pounds is paid that he is to pay, And then after this all my movable(?) estate is to be equal divided between them all. I __?__ constitute wish and ordain my son John to be executor of this my last will and testament & I do hereby utterly disallow and revoke all former testaments Wills legacies and executors ratifying & confirming this and no other to be my last will and testament in Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and soul this twelve day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven.

(signed) Daniel Kiblinger - (seal)

Test: Philip Sommer, John __?__, Joseph __?__

Information on Johann Daniel Kiplinger

Johann Daniel arrived in Philadelphia on 9 SEP 1749 aboard the ship St. Andrew with Johann Jacob.

He married in the German Reformed Church of Lancaster Co., PA, and settled in the Hawksbill area of Shenandoah Co., VA near Stanley. He purchased land on the Hawksbill near Massanutten in the Shenandoah

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