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Facts and Events
Will Transcript
- WILL OF ABRAHAM SAHLER, THE ANCESTOR. In the name of God, Amen! I, Abraham Sahler, of Peikioming and Skippack Townships, in the County of Philadelphia, in the Province of Pennsylvania, Yeoman, being weak in health, but of sound and disposing mind, memory and understanding, praised be the Lord for the same, do hereby make my last will and testament, in manner following, to wit:
- First I will that all my just debts and funeral expenses shall be duly paid and satisfied. And that in the inventory and appraisement of my personal estate, notice shall be taken of all such sums of money as I have advanced to my elder children, or, as from either of them is owing to me, whether on bond or note of hand, or charged in my book against them, in order to make my younger children equal with them in the distribution of my estate. And I give and bequeath unto my beloved wife, Elizabeth, one full equal third part of all my personal estate whatsoever, and the remaining two-third parts thereof shall be equally divided among my seven children, Isaac, Abraham. Elizabeth, the wife of Robert Pattin, Rachel, the wife of John Gross, Catherina, Daniel and John, and the shares of my younger children shall be put out at interest till they successively arrive at the age of twenty-one years.
- Item I will that all my real estate whatsoever shall remain undivided until my son John shall arrive at the age of twenty- one years. In the meanwhile all my lands, tenements and hereditaments shall be let out on the best annual rents that can be obtained. So nevertheless that in the letting the plantation on which I now live, the southern part of my dwelling house, with the right of keeping a couple of cows, and the privilege of the yard water well, some room in the spring houses, and other reasonable conveniences be reserved for my wife during the minority of my son said John, if she so long remain my widow and that the tenant or renter of the said plantation cut on my lands, and at her door deliver all the fire-wood she shall have occasion for, and of the rents arising from my said real estate during the minority of my youngest child, I give one full equal third part to my said wife, and the other two thirds parts thereof shall be equally divided among my said seven children, so that the shares of my younger children in the said rents be put out at interest for their benefit till they arrive at the age of twenty-one years. I will and direct that if any of my two younger sons shall incline to learn a trade, he maybe bound to a discreet master for a reasonable term, but always on condition that he learn to read and write and cyphering, at least so far as the Rule of Three.
- Item I will and devise that when my youngest son is arrived at the age of twenty-one years, all my lands, tenements and hereditaments whatsoever shall be equally divided among my said seven children. And I give and devise to each of them one full equal seventh part thereof, to hold to him or her, his or her heirs and assigns forever. And I do hereby charge the several seventh parts of my children with the payment of one-third part of the value of the yearly rent to my said wife during all the term of her natural life, provided always that if any of my children before such partition made shall die leaving issue, such issue shall between themselves equally divide the share hereby intended for their deceased parent, in my personal estate, and in the inheritance of my real estate, provided also that if any of my younger children shall die in his or her minority, unmarried and without issue, that then the part or share of him or her so dying of and in my real and personal estate shall be equally divided among my surviving children and the issues of such of them as shall be then dead.
- Item I do hereby nominate and appoint my said wife Elizabeth, and my son Abraham, and my trusty friend, Francis Gurney, late of the City of Philadelphia. Merchant, executors of this my last will and testament.
- Lastly I do hereby revoke all other wills and testaments by me hereto, fore made and executed declaring this only to be my last will and testament. In witness whereof I have set my hand and seal this sixth day of April, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight.
- Abraham Sahler. [Seal.]
- Signed, sealed, published and declared by the said testator, Abraham Sahler, for and as his last will and testament in the presence of us who at his request and in his presence have hereunto subscribed our names. Frederick Hesser. (It is impossible to decipher the second name.)--------- Witnesses sworn 15th May, 1778.
- [The genealogy of the Sahlers, of the United States of America, and of their kinsmen, the Gross family . by Sahler, Louis Hasbrouck].
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Wikitree.com.
Abraham Sahler
Born 1713 in Montgomery,,Pennsylvania
Husband of Elizabeth (DuBois) Sahler — married 1742 in Philadelphia, PA
Died 1778 at about age 65 in Philadelphia, PA
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Sahler-24
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