Person:Jacob Hershberger (18)

Will Transcript

Will of Jacob Hershberger, written March 8, 1782 and probated June 1782.

I Jacob Herchbarger of the Township of Westfallowfield and county of Chester Farmer....... Nothing doubting but at the general resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mighty Power of God and as Tuching such worldly estate wherewith it hath pleased God to Bless me in this Life: I give Divse and Dispose of In the following mannar and Form..........

Item I give unto my well beloved Daughter Moly Herchbarger the Intrest of Seventy pounds to be yearly paid During her Single Life and if She Should mary I do allow the she shall be paid fifty pounds of the above Seventy and the Intrest Shall cease But if she should Live Single and become Helpless then I do alow that the principal shall be given for her suport before her Death.

Then I do allow fifty pounds of the above Seventy to be Equally Devided Betwen my four sons Jacob, Samuel, John and Hendry and the Remainding Twenty pounds I do alow to be paid to my grand Daughter Hester Daughter to my Daughter Molly and I do will to my Daughter Molly forty pounds of Swingled flax for her own use and also I do alow the Linsey web now at the weavers to be given to my Daughter Molly and Hester my Grand Daughter.

Item: I give and Bequeath to my well beloved Daughter Catherine Conrad wife to Joseph Conrad the sum of thirty Seven pounds five shillings.......

I alow the Bond that I have Against Joseph Conrad to be given up to him as satisfaction for any A compts he may have against me.....

Item: I give and Bequeath unto my Daughter Mary Brown wife to James Brown the just sum of fifty pounds......

Item: I give and Bequeth unto my well beloved son John Herchbarger the just sum of one Hundred and Sixty pounds..... to be paid when he is at the age of Twenty one.....

I give and Bequeath untomywell beloved son HendryHerchbarger the justsum of one Hundred and sixty pound to be paid when he shall be at the age of twenty one........and alow that my son John and Hendry be put to Treads [?] as Soon as is convenient and that they be schoold by the esepence of their master....

Item I give and Bequeath unto my well beloved son Jacob Herchbarger the plantation that I now Live on with two Acres of Medow ground of the Lower plantation to be mesured of by my Ececutors where it will Best be answer under the water corse above the Barn unto him and his Heirs with my own watch and Ten pounds in cash.....

Item: I give and Bequeath unto my well beloved son Samuel Herchbarger the Lower Plantation with the Privelege of taking the water out of the uper Plantation which is willed to my son Jacob and to raise the water if it should be nessascery by a Dam.....with one Silver Watch and all the other half of my Personanal Estate....and paying the one half of all Legaues as this my will Doth require and the remainder of my flax and wool and what hemp is not sold I do order and alow to be spun and wove and drest at the Escpence of my son Jacob and Samuel.

[Signed] Jacob Hershberger

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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/30350978775/facts

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   Jacob Hershberger
   Jacob lived in Chester County, Pennsylvania. His relationship to Jacob was proven from a deed dated 1781:
   Jacob Hershberger of West Fallowfield Township, Chester County, deceased has received from Isaac Hershberger and in account and settlement made by the executors of the last will & testament of Jacob Hershberger (Father to the said two Hershbergers aforesaid).
   
   http://ourfamilygenie.com/sites/default/files/Decendants%20of%20Jacob%20Hershberger%20pt1.pdf