The Last Will and Testament of Adolph Schambach
Register of Wills In and for the County of Philadelphia Pennsylvania, Will No. 76 Year 1750
| I Volintine Shambach son of Audolph Shambach deced. Dorothy Shambach
the widow having renounced Greeting
Whereas The said Audolph Shambach in his life Time made a certain writing or Codicil under his Hand & Seal bearing date the 26th day of august in the year of our Lord One Thousand seven hundred & fortynine purporting his Last Will & Testament a true Copy wherof is hereunto annexed but named no Executors thereof He the sd. deced. having whilst he lived & at the Time of his death divers Goods Chattels Rights & Credits within the said Province by means whereof the full disposition and Power of granting the administration of all and Singluar the Goods Chattels Rights & Credits which were of the said deced. within the sd. Province and also the auditing the accts. Calculacons & Rechkonings of the said administration & the Probation & approbation of the sd. Codicil to me is manifestly known to belong I desiring that the Goods Rights & Credits wch. were of the said Deced. may be well and truly adminstred to and the said writing or Codical have its due weight do hereby grant unto you the said Volintine Shambach for whose fidelity in this behalf I very much Confide full Power by the Tenor of these Presents to administer the Goods Chattels Rights & Credits which were of the said deced. within the said Province And also to ask Collect Levy recover & receive the Credits whatsoever of the said deced. wch. at the Time of his death were owing or to him did anyway belong and to Pay the Debts in wch. the said Deced. Stood obliged and the Legacies in the said Codicil mentioned so far forth as the sd. Goods Rights & Credits will Extend according to their rate & Order of Law Especially of well & truly administring the Goods Chattels Rights & Credits wch. were of the sd. deced. & making a true & perfect Inventory thereof and Exhibiting the same into the Regr. Genl.'s office at Philad. at or before the 3d. day of December next & rendring a true & just accot. Calculation or reckoning of the said administration at or before the 4th day of November Anno 1751 and I do by these Presents Ordain Constitute & Deputis you the said Volintine Shambach Administrator of all & singular the Goods Chattels Rights & Credits of the said deced. within the Limits afordsd. with the writing or Codicil aforsaid annexed Saving harmless & forever Indemnifying me & all other officers agst. all other Persons whatsoever by reason of Your administracon aforesaid & Saving to all others their Rights In Testimony whereof I have hereunto Set my hand & Seal of office at Philadelphia the 3d day of November in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven hundred & fifty Wm. Plumsted Regr. Genl. |
| In the Name of God I Adolph Shambach of Philada. County Do make my Last
will & Testament & that by my good understanding & sound memory
& containing as follows Imprimis I give & bequeath unto my Second
Son Volintine my Plantation with all the Improvements & Buildings thereon
nothing Excepted for the only use and behoof of him and his Heirs so that
none of his Brother & Sisters can make any Claim or Pretention on the
same after my Death Item I will have that my Second Son Volintine shall pay
unto my three other Children which I Issued with my Second wife besides my
three Grandchildren of my first Daughter Elizabeth the wife of Jacob Jost
the Sum of one hundred fifity five Pounds at the hereafter mentioned Terms
Item I will if it happens that his mother over lives me my Son valentine
shall pay the lawfull Interests of the above mentioned 155 £ unto her
for her maintenance without any upbraiding and that so long as she goes by
name but if she against Expectation should marry again she only is to have
her lawfull Share viz. one Third part of all moveables & no more It.
I will that the first Term of Payment shall begin one year after our Death
& that without Interest vize my Son Valentine shall pay for the first
Term 30 Pounds 10 £ therof he is to pay unto my Son John George, and
10 £ unto my Daughter (Catharine) & 10 £ unto my youngest Daughter
Elizabeth, the next Second year after our Death shall my Son Valintine Pay
23 £ vize unto my Eldest Son George 11 £ unto my Daughter Catharine
5 £ unto my youngest Daughter Elizabeth 7 £ and so the following
4 years every year 23 £ according to the Division mentioned in the Second
Term to pay unto his Brother & Sisters & all that without any Interest
the whole Time of the Payments is extending to Six years the whole Sum of
every ones shares is as followeth vize I bequeath unto my Son John George
the Sum of Sixty five pounds unto my Daughter Catharina the Sum of Thirty
five pounds, unto my Youngest Daughter Elizabeth the sum of forty five pounds
and unto my three Grand Children the Children of Jacob Yost the Sum of Ten
Pounds wch. 10 £ shall be the Cash Payment Payable in the seventh year
after our death & 10 the whole Sum of 155 £ shall be paid down of
my Son Valintine Justly & without any objection All these above Presents
I have with Sound Memory & good understanding caused to put down in writing
and I will have it kept and Executed firm and inviolably I Testimony thereof
I have in the presence of the Subscribed Witnesses put my own Seal &
Hand hereunto on the 26th day of August in the year after the gracious Birth
of our Lord Jesus Christ 1749 Adolph (X) Shambach
Dirk (D) Casselbery, Christian weber Translated from the origl. in high German. Abraham Heiderich |
| Philada. 3d November 1750 Then Psonally appeared Derick Caselbery &
Christian weber witnesses to the foregoing Codicil & upon their Solemn
affirmacon according to Law did declare they saw & heard Adolph Shambach
the Testator therein named Sign, Seal, Publish & declare the said Codicil
for & as his Last will & Testament and that at the doing thereof
he was of Sound Mind Memory & understanding to the best of their knowledge
Corum. Wm. Plumsted Regr. Genl. |