In the Name of God Amen. I Philip Boyer of Lebanon Township Lancaster County & State of Pensylvania being at present very sick and weak in Body but of perfect Mind Memory and Understanding Thanks be given unto God, calling unto Mind the Mortality of Body do make and ordain this my Last Will & Testament in Maner and Form following that is to say I recomend my Soul unto the Hand of Almighty God that gave it, and my body I recomend to the Earth to be buried in decent Christian burial. And as touching such worldly Estates wherewith it has pleased God to bless me in this Life I give devise and dispose of the same in the following Maner & Form. Imprimis, it is my Will and I do order that in the first place all my Just Debts and Funeral Expenses be paid as soon as conveniently may be after my Decease. Item it is my Will that my beloved Wife Susanah shall live upon and enjoy my Plantation with all my Effects and keep my two Sons Frederic and Peter with her to work the Place out of the Incomes whereof she is to bring them up and have them educated without making any Charge for the same in which Maner my said Wife shall inherit my Estate in Maner aforesaid as long as she remains my Widow and no longer, but if my said Wife shall Marry again that then my said Wife shall imediately acquit my said Plantation and give up to my hereafter named Executors or to the Survivor of them all the personal Estate which she had in her possession or care, and my Executors shall only give her of my Household Goods as much as they shall think necessary and likewise fifty pounds good hard Money but in case my said Wife could not manage my said Plantation with my aforesaid two Sons as my Widow then it is my Will that my Executors may let my Plantation upon Shares and the Incomes whereof they shall give unto my said Wife Susanah during her natural Life as my Widow. And it is further my Will that if my said Wife should inter marry that then my said Executors if to them shall seem convenient sell and dispose the Remainder of my personal Estate and make the same to Money. And my further Will is and do hereby order that my hereafter named Executors or the Survivor of them may value and Appraise my Plantation unto my Son Frederic after my Wife's Decease or Marriage and if he my son Frederic will not take the Plantation at their Appraisement then my Son Peter shall have the Plantation for the said Valuation if he chooses, but if neither of them will take the said Plantation then my executors or the Survivors of them may sell it at Public Vendue. Item. It is my Will that all the Money accrueing of my real and personal Estate shall be equally divided (except all what is above excepted) between all my Children only allowing my Son Philip five pounds and my Son Frederic ten pounds and my Son Peter fourteen pounds good hard Money in Gold or Silver over and above their equal Shares. Further my Will is that the Portion or equal Share (for certain good Causes) which shall become due unto my Son in law James Kelly Husband to my Daughter Juliana my Executors or the Survivors of them shall keep in their Hands till their two Children Frederic and Catharine shall have their Lawfull Age and then it shall be equally divided only between them two aforesaid two Children, and that my Executors pay unto the said Kelly five Shillings and no more in full of his Claim to the Premises. Item, it is my Will that my hereafter named Executors or the Survivors of them shall have full power to give a good lawfull Deed or conveyance for my Plantation as will vest a Fee Simple in the purchaser or Purchasers thereof. And lastly I do hereby nominate & appoint my beloved Wife Susanah Executrix and my two beloved Friends Jacob Kitzmiller and Henry Peter Junior sole and whole Executors of this my Last Will and Testament hereby revoking dis-annulling and making void all former and other Testament & Executors by me heretofore made ratifying this and no other to be my Last Will & Testament. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal this fifth Day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty one. Philip Bayer (German Signature) Intl. in Orig. Signed Sealed Pronounced & Declared by } the said Philip Boyer as his Last Will and} in the Presence of us David Wagner, Karl } X his mark Reiger, Manos Strohr der alto. W:B:The above was interlined before the Sealing hereof Lancaster County Ss. On the first Day of May Anno Domini 1781 before me the Subscriber personally appeared Charles Reichert and Matthias Strohr the elder, two of the Witnesses to the within Will and on their Corporal Oath according to Law did severally and respectively depose and say that they were present and saw & heard Philip Boyer the Testator within named Sign Seal Publish Pronounce and Declare the within Writing as and for his last Will and Testament and that at the Doing thereof he was of sound and well disposing Mind Memory and Understanding to the best of their Knowledge Observation and Belief (Signed) John Hubley Regr. Be it Remembered that on the first Day of May Anno Domini 1781 the Last Will and Testament of Philip Boyer late of Lebanon Township in the County of Lancaster Yeoman deceased was proved in due Form of Law and Letters Testamentary thereon were granted to Susannah Boyer, Jacob Kitzmiller and Henry Peter Junior the Executors therein named and appointed they being first duly Qualified well and truly to administer the Estate of the said deceased, to exhibit a true and perfect Inventory thereof into the Register's Office of Lancaster on or before the first Day of June next and to render a Just Account of their Administration of the said Estate when thereto legally required. Given under the Seal of the said Office & by me (Signed) John Hubley (Examined with the Original)