1783 Greenwich Township
In the name of the Holy Trinity Amen
I George Arnold living in Greenwich Township in Berks County am willing to make my last Will and Testament, since I am yet by my good understanding and memory, That if the Lord should call me out of this world into eternal happiness, and how it shall be held after my death, firstly it shall be made that if I should die before my wife then 40 pounds shall be put on interest of the money that we have as yet in hand, and should the interest not be sufficient if she should get sick or bedrid so, she may take the principal sum and spend thereof, and the house furniture that we have jointly in hand she shall keep likewise during her life, and if she should be molested in my house that we had in possession then she shall go to another child of my children whereto she pleases and take along her beds and house furniture and the son is bound to deliver her reservations as the Father has reserved in an article of agreement, wheat and divers other things to, where she moves to, and likewise let a cow go, and my youngest son named Conrad shall have the weavers loom and all the tacklings after my death to be his alone, Likewise the child that we brought up of my daughter Barbara named Catharina shall have our Bed after both our deaths, and that child shall be an Heir like my children, therefor the child shall let its Mother if the Mother is yet living have five pounds of the inheritance it gits from me, but if she is death then the child keeps the inheritance alone, Likewise shall be observ'd that all what we both parents leave after our Deaths shall be distributed in equal shares, but Jacob dare not inherit along because he possesses and has the place, that no one shall molest and defend the other, my Eldest Son named George Arnold shall be impowered after my death to open this Testament and Last Will in the presence of my other children by other thereto called witnesses to the confirming of this Testament made by me George Arnold and confirmed in the year of our Lord 1783 the 27th October, by these thereto called witnesses.
Contributed by: Michelle.
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