WILL OF ANDREW ASHBAUGH

ADAMS COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA WILL BOOK B (p.16); 1814

In The Name of God Amen etc. etc. - I Andrew Ashbough of Mountjoy township Adams County in the state of Pennsylvania farmer being weak and frail of Body but of sound mind and memory (Thanks to God for the same) do this twenty fifth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred & thirteen make and publish this Instrument of writing as and for my last will and testament in manner and form following (that is to say) first of all I order will and allow all my Just debts to be well and truly paid as soon after my decease as my Executors Conveniently Can.

secondly) I Give and bequeath to my wife Mary Ashbough as much of my household and Kitchen furniture as she may think proper to Keep, vizt the use thereof, and as may be necessary for her, and one Cow of her own Choice, and twenty dollars to be paid her out of the first money that Comes to my S___ hands after my death, to be holden of her during her natural life, Alfo one third of the yearly produce of my plantation whereon I now Dwell with the use of & Occupation of the Room in my house which we now Occupy, with liberty of the Kitchen as much as she will want to Cook wash and Keep her furniture therein suitable for that purpose, that part of her Garden we now hold, and a small patch for potatoes dunged & plowed & made fit to plant by the renters - and Good & sufficient firewood Cut hawled & laid at her door & made fit for the Kitchen & stove the Grain to be delivered to her in the Bushel and the hay Cut Cured and put on the stable Alfo stabling & pasture for her Cow to be held and Enjoyed by her my said wife for & during her natural life - and I do Enjoin it upon my Executor to see that she is treated with Respect and humanity, & Receives the foregoing in due time & manner so as to render her life Comfortable & Easy.

thirdly) I order will and allow the rest and Residue of my personal Estate to be sold at public Vendue and the money arising therefrom together with the notes bonds and Accounts & Cash I may have at my Death when Collected to be distributed as follows. first paying to my wife twenty Dollars & the Residue to be Equally Divided to and amongst all my Children or the legall Representatives of those dead if any be, leaving such Ifsue the Representatives taking their parents share if one solely, if more than one Equally,

fourthly) I order will and allow my plantation to be rented from year to year during my wifes naturall life reserving to her the priviledges to her bequeathed, my son Allexander Ashbough to have the first offer - but if he will not Accept thereof, or not farm to the satisfaction of my Executors, that then they may rent to any other suitable person they Can, still, however, having Respect to put no person thereon that will render my wife Uneasy, or abridge her priviledges,

fifthly) I order will and allow at the death of my wife my land to be sold by my Executors at public or private sale at their discretion, for one third in hand & the rest in ten Equal annual payments - and when the sum is well and truly paid or secured to be paid to their satisfaction then but not before, to convey the same to the purchaser in fee simple it being patented - and such Conveyance so made by my Executors shall for Ever Ban my heirs & all under them.

sixthly) the money arising from such sale I order to be distributed as follows - As some of my Children have received from me heretofore some more some lefs - and I wish them to be all Equal - then when my Executors receive this first payment of my land, they shall Refer to a sheet of paper where I have made an Account of what I have Given to Each of them Respectively, and in order to Designate that paper from Others I have made my mark thereunto this day - and by that they are to be made Equal out of the payment aforesd. and then being so made Equal, the rest & Residue shall be Equally Divided amongst all my Children if Alive but if any of them be dead leaving lawfull Ifsue then such Ifsue shall Inherit their parents share in manner directed in Case of the personal Estate aforesaid.

and Lastly) I Do hereby Constitute and ordain my son in Law Adam Winterode and my son Thomas Ashbough Executors of this my last will and testament Agreeable to the Intent and meaning thereof but in Case of death resignation or removeable to too Great a Distance of any of my Executors then the Other to Act solely and by himself as if no other had been appointed. In Testimony of this being my Last will and testament I have hereunto set my hand & seal the day & year first above written.

Before James Duncan Esq Register for the Probate of Wills and granting Letters of Administration in and for the County of Adams in the state of Pennsylvania Personally came Robt. Wilson & George Bonder two of the subscribing witnefses to the foregoing instrument of writing and on their solemn oaths do severally say that they were Personally Present and saw and heard the within named Andrew Ashbaugh sign his mark write and seal and publish the foregoing instrument of writing as and for his last will & testament and at the time of Doing thereof he the said Andrew Ashbaugh was of a sound and disposing mind memory and understanding to the best of their Knowledge and belief and that they subscribed their names thereto as witnefses in the presence of the said testator and at his request and also in the presence of each other at the same time.

INVENTORY OF ANDREW ASHBOUGH

Inventory of all and singular the Goods & Chattels Rights & Credits which were of Andrew Ashbough late of Mountjoy township County of Adams penna deceased Apprised the 4th day of March 1814 as follows

Vizt. ................................................ doll.Cents

• To 1 horse ........................................ 55.00
• 1 Cow .............................................. 15.00
• 1 Windmill .......................................... 5.00
• 1 Cuting Box ...................................... 0.75
• 1 Thrashing Machine ........................... 1.00
• 1 plough .............................................. 2.50
• 4 Cow Chains ..................................... 1.00
• 1 pair of hay Lathers ........................... 1.75
• 1 harrow ............................................. 4.50
• 1 old Wagon ..................................... 15.00
• Sundries of Iron of a wagon ................. 6.00
• 1 Wagon bed ...................................... 5.00
• 1 Grind Stone ...................................... 0.50
• 1 old Plough ........................................ 0.50
• dung fork & hook ................................ 1.25
• Sundries of old horse Geers ................. 1.25
• Sundry parcels of old Iron .................... 0.75
• 4 old Axes ........................................... 1.50
• 1 Log Chair ......................................... 1.50
• 5 Rakes ............................................... 0.40
• Sundry old lasts .................................... 0.50
• old Iron ................................................ 0.50
• Sundry old Augers ................................ 1.00
• old Drawing Knives .............................. 0.75
• 1 hand saw ........................................... 0.50
• Sundry old Chisels ................................ 0.50
• 3 Chares ............................................... 0.06
• 3 hoes ................................................... 0.75
• 1 Bee hive with bees .............................. 2.00
• 1 Bundle of Leathers .............................. 0.75
• 9 lb flax some hackled ............................ 1.27
• 1 pair of Steelyards ................................ 2.00
• 1 old table .............................................. 0.50
• 1 Drefsar & furniture thereon ................ 12.00
• 1 pair of old Saddlebags ........................ 1.00
• 1 old Bucket .......................................... 0.06
• Sundry of Shoemakers tools .................. 1.50
• 5 Chares ............................................... 1.25
• 5 yards Shirten linen @ 45 Cents p yd ... 2.25
• 11 yards do. @ 48 Cents ...................... 5.28
• 11 yards do. @ 48 Cents p yd .............. 5.28
• .........................................................$159.85
  Continued
  
• To 7 yards of Linen @ 30 Cents p yard . 2.10
• 5 yards do. @ 30 Cents p ..................... 1.50
• 4 yards Striped @ 31 Cents p ............... 1.24
• 3 1/2 yards Woolen Cloth ..................... 4.00
• 2 Bed Covers ........................................ 4.00
• 2 Sheets ................................................ 1.75
• 2 table Clothes ...................................... 0.75
• 5 bottles ................................................ 0.40
• 1 small table .......................................... 0.30
• 1 hog .................................................... 2.50
• 1 mall & 2 wedges ................................ 1.25
• 1 third horse tree ................................... 0.30
• 1 turnbill & fooladge .............................. 1.25
• Sundry old planes .................................. 0.75
• 1 half Bushell ......................................... 0.35
• 1 tea Kettle ........................................... 2.00
• 2 Iron pots ............................................ 1.50
• 1 Clover Rake to strip seed ................... 3.00
• 1 Cross Cut Saw .................................. 5.00
• 3 flax heckles ........................................ 1.75
• 1 Mans Saddle ...................................... 6.00
• 1 large Copper Kettle ............................ 3.00
• 1 Bake tray ............................................ 0.50
• 1 Barrel & some flax seed ...................... 0.60
• 1 old table .............................................. 0.30
• 2 Cotton Wheels .................................... 1.00
• 1 Chest .................................................. 2.00
• 2 bags of tow ......................................... 1.00
• 1 Bundle of hemp ................................... 0.75
• 12 lb of flax ............................................ 2.50
• 1 bed & stead & Covering .................... 15.00
• 1 Chest ................................................... 0.50
• Sundry old Barrels .................................. 4.75
• 3 tubs ..................................................... 2.00
• 2 Sifters .................................................. 0.30
• 5 Acres of rie in the Ground @ $2.50 p . 12.50
• 2 Acres of wheat in do. @ $4.50 ............. 9.00
• 3 bags ..................................................... 0.75
• Wearing apparel of Deceased ................ 35.00
• ............................................................ 133.14
  Bonds and Notes
  
• 1 Bond on Adam Winterode .............. $266.67
• Interest since March 25 1812
  1 year 11 m 14 d ................................... 31.33
• 1 Note on Samuel Adair for ................. 100.00
• Interest thereon 1 year ............................. 6.00
• Henry Stoltz .......................................... 60.00
• Interest thereon since 20 June 1811 ......... 8.95
• ............................................................ 472.95
  Continued
  
• 1 Note on Jacob Auckers for ................. 24.00
• Interest on same 2 years & 7 months ........ 3.72
• do on Jacob Auckers ............................. 25.00
• Interest on same since 25th August 1812
  1 y 10 m 14 d .......................................... 2.68
• do on Thomas Ashbough ........................ 80.00
• Interest on same 2 years 11 m 14 d .......... 9.60
• do on Allexander Hunter for ................... 23.56
• Interest on same since
  16th november 1812 ................................ 1.85
• do on William Stoltz ............................... 60.00
• Interest on same since 21st march 1813 .... 3.42
• do on Robert Wilfon for ....................... 166.39
• Interest on same since 14th August 1813 .. 4.97
• Cash in house ...................................... 117.40
• ............................................................ 522.59
  Book Accounts
• Jefse McAllister ..................................... 91.12
• Adam Rohrbough .................................. 27.15
• George Heagy ......................................... 3.94
• Adam Shorb ............................................ 1.00
• Henry Little (Mountjoy) ........................... 1.06
• Catharine Bankert .................................... 0.67
• Henry Stoltz ............................................. 2.35
• Jacob Helm .............................................. 1.28
• John Horner ............................................ 0.28
• George Bender (alias Penter) ................. 10.35
• Jefse McAllister to Leah _____ ............. 30.00
• Interest on same since 19 April 1813 ....... 2.46
• ............................................................ 191.66
  Goods Kept by Widow by order in Will
• To 1 Cow .............................................. 17.00
• 1 Clock and Case .................................. 12.00
• 11 yards of linnen @ 36 Cents p .............. 3.90
• 1 Case of Drawers ................................. 12.00
• 1 table ..................................................... 0.75
• Blankets and sheets .................................. 4.00
• 1 bed & stead & Covering ...................... 20.00
• 1 do do do ............................................. 11.00
• 1 Stove & pipes ..................................... 12.00
• Kitchen furniture ....................................... 3.00
• 1 Chest .................................................... 2.50
• 3 Chairs ................................................... 1.00
• 1 looking Glafs ......................................... 0.20
• 4 Iron pots ............................................... 3.00
• fire tongs and shovels ................................ 0.50
• 1 Shote .................................................... 1.25
• Sundry of old Books ................................ 1.00
• 4 old bags ................................................ 0.75
• ............................................................. 105.91

Personally appeared Robert Wilson & George Bender & on their solemn oaths do say that they have well & truly appraised the summary articles in the foregoing Inventory contained of the goods and chattels rights and credits of Andrew Ashbough deceased according to the best of their skill & understanding.

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