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Will Transcript
- Will of Peter Kratzer
- In the name of God Amen the 20th day of September in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and Eighty I Peter Kratzer of Warwick Township in Lancaster County and Stateof Pennsylvania (Farmer) being weak in Body but of Perfect Mind and Memory thanks be given unto God therefore calling unto mind the morteality of my Bodey and knowing that it is appointed for all Men once to die do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament that is to say Princepely and first of all I give and recommend my Soul unto the Hands of God that gave it and for my Bodey I recommend to the Earth to be Buried in Christian like and desent manner at the discretion of my herein and after named Executors, nothing Doubting but at the General Resurection 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 devise and dispose of the same in this following manner and form, Imprimis it is my Will and I do order that in the first place all my Just Debts and funeral Charges be paid and Sadisfyed.
- Item I give and bequeath unto my beloved Wife Ann the Sum of Two Hundred Pounds in Gold or Silver first and foremost to be reased out of my Estate together with the following articles (to wit) all the beds Bed steds and the Bed Cloths to them belonging that is now in the House and all the Linnen and Lincey of any sort whatsoever, her Choice of two Mares, five milk Cows and a Heffer & three Cows out of my Stock with the full Geers for the two Horse Creators, one Plantation Waggon, one Plough and a Harrow, Ten head of Sheep, and all my Hogs and all the Iron Pots and Kettle in the House or belonging to me, likewise all the Copper, Brass, Puter, Iron and Tin Ware in the Kitchen and all the Woden vesels, the Cloths Press and Kitchen Dresser, the House Clock, two Tables, one Chest, the 2 Stoves in the House, and all the Chears, Benches and Spinning Wheels in teh Hous, and all the Books, except Acct Books, and all the Willows and other Baskets, and all the Old and new Flax, Hemp and Tow, and all the dryed meat and aples, the Dough Trough her Saddle and Bridel, and all the Grain and Hay whatsoever in the House, Barn, Stables or Mow, the Wind Mill and Cutting Box, the half Bushels, and all the Sives, Shubles Hows, Axes, Flails and rakes, the apple mill, and all the Bees and Beehives and Pottrey on the Place, six Cow Chains, all the Tanners Bark now on hand, and all my Tools and utensils, belonging to my Tanyard To hold to her Heirs and Assigns forever for and in Lue of her of my Estate.
- And further it is my will that my wife Ann shall have and keep Posion of the Plantation whereon I now live and to have at her Ellection the full and entire use and Benifet of the same for and during her Natreal life. Item I give and bequeath unto my well beloved Son John Kratzer the Sum of Fifteen Pounds in Gold or Silver first and foremost for his Birth right to be reased out of my Estate.
- Item I give and bequeath untomy said Son John the Piece or small Tract of Land whereon he now lives To hold to him his Heirs and Assigns forever, and the smae I apprais to One hundred and Ten Pounds but if my Son John should not think fit to take the Place aforesaid at that Price, or Abraham Weltmer shouldent be able to make and deliver a good Title for the same as per agreement. Then the Consideration money which may be recoreered back from said Abraham Weltmer for his not Performing Agreement shall be divided amoungst my Children herein and after mentioned in Shear and Shear alike and my Son John not be be Chorged Rent for the Time he lives on the Place if not longer then Six year
- Item it is my Will and I do order that the Planation I bough to John Lowman shall be rented or sold after my Decease, as it may seem best and to the most Advantage by my Executors and likewise the Plantation whereon I now after the Deth of my wife Anna afresaid. And further it is my Will that my Nine Cheldren (to wit) John, Anna, Marey, Abraham, Susanna, Jacob, Peter, Elizabeth, Christian, and Cathrenia shall all have Shear and Shear alike all my Real and Personal Estate (except what is herein before excepted) And further it is my Will that if any of my Children should dye under age or without Issue then such Child or Children's Part or Shear of my Estate shall and insuch case be divided in Share and Shear alike amoungst the remainder of my Children. To hold to them their Heirs and Assigns for ever. And I do nomintate Constitute appoint my belovedf Wife Ann and my loving and trusty Friend Abraham Myer and Rudey Beam my absolute and Sole Executors of this my last Will and Testament, and I do hereby utterly disalow revoke and disanoll all and every other former Will Testament or Seagacess by me in any ways before this Time named Willed and bequeathed ratefying and confirming this and no other to be my last Will and Testament.
- In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal the Day and year first above written.
- [Signed] Petter Kratzer (Seal)
- Signed and published pronounced and declared by the said Peter Kratzer as his last Will and Testament in the Presence of us the Subscribers, John Groff, John Thomas Junior, N. Ceasy
- Will Probated 1803 Book H Volume 1 Page 38
References
- Find A Grave.
Peter Kratzer
Birth 1735
Death 1780 (aged 44–45)
White Oak, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
Burial
Gish Farm Cemetery
White Oak, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
Peter Kratzer married Anna Katrina Gisch 1762.
He bought the Mathias Gisch farm from the other children and raised his family there. He was a blacksmith. Children are John, Anna, Mary, Abraham, Susanna, Jacob, Peter, Elizabeth, Christian, Katherina.
Signed his will in 1780 but the estate was not divided among the children until 1803.
Which represents either when the last child became of age
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/61107138/peter-kratzer
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Geneanet Community Trees Index.
Name Peter Kreitzer
Gender M (Male)
Birth Date 1718
Birth Place Baden-Wuerttemberg (Baden-Baden), Baden Wurttemberg (Baden-Württemberg), Allemagne (Germany)
Death Date janv. 1798 (Jan 1798)
Death Place Tulpehocken, Berks (Tulpehocken), Pennsylvania, USA
Father Johann Philipp Kratzert
Mother Elizabeth Dauber
Spouse Anna Maria Gish
Child Henry Critzer
- Hamaker, John Irwin. Matthias Gish of White Oak : the history of an American family. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1980)
pg. 200.
Peter [Kratzer] signed his will in 1780 but the estate was not divided among the children until 1803 which probably represents approximately the year of her [wife Anna's] death.
Anna Kratzer was a member of the White Oak congregation of the Church of the Brethren in 1770.
In his will Peter names his nine children: John, Anna, Jacob, Mary, Abraham, Susanna (married to Jacob Ratz), Peter, Elizabeth (married to Abraham Beahm), Christian and Cathrina (married to Jacob Zahm).
When the final administration of the estate took place it again passed into the hands of a son-in-law. This was Elizabeth's husband, Abraham Beahm. The oldest son, John, died before his mother, Peter was living in Indiana County in the western part of the state, Jacob was probably in Cumberland County.
- United States. Pennsylvania, Land Warrants and Applications, 1733-1952: [database on-line]. (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012).
Name Peter Kratzer
Warrant Date 14 Oct 1773
Warrant Place Warwick, Lancaster
Size: 5 Acres
- Pennsylvania, United States. Oyer and Terminer Court Papers, 1757-1787.
Name Peter Kratzer
Record Date 1780
County Lancaster
Note: Peter Kratzer of Warwick Township, Tanner. tent in £5,000
- Pennsylvania, Tax and Exoneration, 1768-1801.
Name Peter Kratzer
Year 1785
Town or Ward Warwick
County Lancaster
Archive Rollname 329
Note: 127 acres, 4 Horses, 5 Horned Cattle, Value 313, Tax £3, 5, 2
- Pennsylvania, Tax and Exoneration, 1768-1801.
Name Peter Kratzer
Year 1786
Town or Ward Warwick
County Lancaster
Archive Rollname 329
Note: 127 acres, 4 Horses, 5 Horned Cattle, Value 265, Tax £3, 5.
- Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Septennial Census Returns, 1779-1863. (Harrisburg: Pennsylvania State Archives Series #7.26).
Name Peter Kratzer
Residence Year 1793
Residence Place Warwick, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
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