I Ulrich Sherr being very ill in a dangerous sickness but in good sense and understanding, and I not omitt before I should dye, to make my last Will for my Wife and Children, which I declare to the Subject be hereof.
Firft my eldeft Son Johann Jacob Sherr fhall have the Land lying in Richmond Township, which makes one hundred and fifty six acres, and the above menshoned Jacob fhall have further fifteen acres lying next to him, which have his Brothers, Peter Scher and Henrich Scherr, and this fhall he and his Posterity have.
Secondly, my two younger Sons Peter and Henrich fhall have the inhabitated Plantation, House and Place for themselves and their Heirs. But Peter fhall help his Brother Henrich to build an Houfe and Barn that he can ufed.
My two Sons Peter and Henrich fhall give out of this Plantation to my Daughters, Elifabeth, Sufanna and Maria, to every one of them, one hundred Pounds of Penfylvania Money, and to every one an Ox two Year old, and this they fhall have when they marry or are free.
Farther the two Brothers Peter and Henrich fhall give out to my youngeft Son Michel, like one hundred and fifty pounds real money, and this, when he is free, or twenty one years old.
Concerning my Wife Dorothea, firft fhe fhall keep her seat in their Houfe fo long as they live in friendship. But if they can not ftay together, they fhall build for her an Houfe next to the Spring, and fhall cut and bring home to her wood for burning, and the two Brothers Peter and Henrich Shall give to their Mother every year fo long as she lives twenty Bufhels Wheat, and fodder for two Cows, and every year, one hundred Pounds of Pork and fifty pounds of Bief, and two Lines of appel Trees; as fhe will chuse, and every year an half acre with Flax, and they fhall clear them, and they fhall give every year to her forty schilling Cafh.But if it happens, that fhe fhould marry again, fhe fhall have the third part of the moveable goods.
What concerns the Notes and Bonds and the Wheat in the Houfe, thereof they fhall make free that Land which is not now free. And this I certify with my own hand.
At Reading in the County of Berks the 26th Day of March in the Year of our Lord one thousand and feven hundred and Fifty four Came Henrich Gronewald and Jacob Hottenstein the two fubscribing Witnefses to the above Writing, purporting to be the last Will and Testament of Ulrich Sherr, and the said Henrich Grenewald, upon his Solemn Oath on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God, and Jacob Hottenstein on the Solemn Affirmation according to Law, did severally declare and fay, that they saw & heard the said Ulrich Sherr aforenamed sign Seal publish & declare the same Writing to be his last Will & Testament and at the Doing thereof, he was of Sound Mind Memory and understanding in the best of their Knowledge and that they severally signed their Names as Witnefses thereto with their own Hands respectively in the Presence and at the request of the said Testator.