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In The Name of God Amen
This 27th Day of December in the Year of our Lord one Thousand Seven
Hundred and Eighty Two and in the Seventh Year of the Common Wealth
of Pensilvania, I Baltzer Troutt of Colebrookdale Township in the
County of Berks and State of Pensilvania, Tanner, being Sick and Weak
in Body but of Perfect and Sound Mind and Memory, Thanks be give unto
God therefore Calling unto Mind the Mortallity of my Body and Knowing
that it is Appointed for all Men once to die, I Make and ordain this
as My Last Will and Testament.....
First of all it is my Will and I do order that after my decease My
Body be buried in a Christian Like and decent Manner and all My Last
Debts and funerall Charge be first payd and Sattisfied by My
Executors Who I Shall hereafter Nominate and Appoint......
Item, it is my Will and I do order that in four Weaks after my
Decease all my Personall Estate, Exept my Household Goods and
furniture be appraised and an Inventory thereof Exhibited in the
Registeres Office in Reding....
Item, it is my Will that my beloved Wife Eva Trouttin and my Eldest
Son George Troutt Shall Keep the Family together and go on with the
Tanning Business as Well as they Can till my Son George arrives to
the Age of 21 Year and then my Real Estate Shall be appraised and
Likewise the Household goods and furniture as I exepted in the first
appraisement, out if it first to be
Taken my Wifes Eva her bed and furniture Whereunto be Longing and her
Chest and Apparrel and also one Horse and Ten pound in money to my
Son George and a Bed and furniture thereunto belonging and a Cow to
my Daughter Catharina Trouttin and than after this be all taken out,
that Sum of money as the first appraisment came to that money the
Last appraisment of my Real Estate and Household goods Came to after
taken out as before Specified to my Wife Son and
Daughter and What I Shall hereafter Bequeath to my beloved Wife Eva
Troutin to be Employed as I Shall hereafter direckt and order....
Item, I give and Bequeath unto my beloved Wife Eva Troutin the equall
Third part of all the money or ____ of my Estate, Real and personall
after there be first taken out as before mentioned to her my Son and
Daughter and Fifty Pound over and above her Third aforesayd in Lew of
her Right and Dowery out of the Premises if in Case Shee Should Leave
them
and Whatever that appraisment or the Efect_ so appraised at the first
appraisement mit be worth more or gained in Vallue Within that Term
till my Son George arives to the age of Twenty on Year Shall be her
owry as also the Interest Money as Shall become due to each of my
Young Children till the arives to the age of fourteen Year. But if
in Case my Wife Should Mary before my Son George arives to the age of
Twenty one Year then Shee Shall Leave the Premises and my Executors
Shall Sell all my Estate both Real and personal at Publick Vendue to
the Highest bider Exept What I have heretofore give and Bequeathed to
my Said Wife Son and Daughter
and I do hereby inpower my Executors to make Execute and Deliver to
the Purchaser as Good a Deed as Could have done my slef in my Life
Time to all intents and Purposes...
Item, if my Said Son George Trout Should be Willing to take my
Plantation and premises at the Ratte or Vallue it Shall be apraised
at after his arivall to the Age of Twenty one Year Then I give and
Bequeath the Same to him my Said Son George Trout his Heirs and
Assigns forever. But if he don¹t Chose to keep it at the
appraisement My Execturors Shall Sell it at Publick vendue to
the highest Bider together With the Household goods exept what out of
the same to my Wife Son and Daughter
and after Such Salle Made my Executors Shall divide the money after
it is Come to their hands Unto Seven equall Shares afte rthat wich I
have given and Bequeathed to my Wife Son and Daughter is taken out of
my Seven Children, George Troutt, Catharina Troutting, John Troutt,
Jacob Troutt, Abraham Troutt, John Baltzer Trout, and Magdalena
Troutting and putt the Same upon Intrest till they and each of them
arive to their proper Ages the Boys at 21 Year and the Girls at 18.
Butt in Case any of them Should Decease before the arive to their
proper ages or Lawfull Issues then to decend among her or her other
Brothers or Sisters Share and Share alike
And I do hereby Constitute and apoint my beloved Friend Stephen
Krumrein and my Brother in law Adam Moser to be my Executors of this
my Last Will and Testament Revoking and disallowing all other and
former Wills and Testaments in any Wise by me made and Bequeathed
Rattifying and Allowing this and no other to by my Last Will and
Testament. In Witness whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and Seal
the Day and Datte above written....
Signed Sealled Pronounced Declared and Delivered by the Sayd Baltzer
Troutt as and for his Last Will and Testament in the Present of us
who where Presents at Signing...
Baltes Trout
Witnesses: John Koplin & Daniel Eiss
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