Release Martin Weitzel, et al. to Daniel Shuman
To all people to whom these presents shall come Martin Weitzel of Lynn Township Northampton County and State of Pennsylvania, Blacksmith, eldest son and Heir at Law of Jacob Weitzel deceased and Daniel Finck of the same place and Elizabeth his wife, Daughter of the said deceased Send Greeting. Know ye that the said Martin Weitzel, Daniel Finck and Elizabeth his wife for and in Consideration of the sum of thirty Pound Current and lawfull Money of Pennsylvania unto each of us in hand well and truly paid, Daneal Shuman of the Township of Lynn, County aforesaid yeoman at and Before the unsealing and delivery hereof the receipt Whereof is hereby acknowledged and the said Danial Shuman his Heirs Exe. Adm. and assigns thereof acquitted and for ever discharged by theses presents, Have granted, Bargained, Sold, Released and confirmed and by these presents Do grant Bargain, Sell, Release and confirm unto the said Daneal Shuman his Heirs and Assigns all our undivided Estate Right Title, Interest share proportion property, Claim and Demand whatsoever we the said Martin Weitzel, Daneal Finck and Elisebeth his wife ever had or may have of and in and to a Certain Plantation and Tract of Land Situate in Lynn Township aforesaid adjoining Land of George Breish, Henry Bubrecht and Conrad Belman Jr. Being the same Plantation and Tract of Land wich [sic] our said deceased Father by his Last Will and Testament in writing bearing date the 27 day of August 1780 among others did order to be sold to the highest bidder among his children To have and To Hold the hereby grant premyes with the appurtenances unto the said Daniel Shuman his Heirs and Assigns To the only proper use and Behoof of the said Daneal Shuman his Heirs and assigns for Ever In Winess whereof so the said Martin Weitzel, Daneal Finck and Elesabeth his wife have ...unto Interchangeably set our hands and Seals Dated the twenty ninth day of May in the year of our Lord One Thousand sevyn Hundred and Ninety five and of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Ninteen Mardin Weizle (seal) Daneal (his X mark) Fenck (seal), Elesebeth (her X mark) Fenck (seal) Sealed and Delivered in the presents of us Saml Everett, Barbara (her X mark) Everett. Rec’d the day of the Date of the within written Release of the within named Daneal Shuman the sum of Thirty Pound each Lawful Money of Pennsylvania It being the Consideration Money within mentioned in full we say by us Martin Weytzell, Daniel (his X mark) Witness present Saml Everett, Barbara (her X mark) Everett, Northampton County SS, 29th day of May AD 1795 Before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County came the witin named Martin Witzell, Daneal Finck and Elesabeth his wife and acknowledged the within written Release to be their act and Deed and desires the same Might be recorded as such she the said Elesabeth being of full eigh [?] seprately by me examined and the Contents therein made know Witness my Record and Seal the day and year above said. Saml Everett (seal)
Recorded the 26th day of September 1796
©2015 Transcription by Nancy L. Ratay

Transcription of The Last Will and Testament of Jacob Weitzel, dec.3153

In the name of God The Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost Amen. I, Jacob Weitzel of Lynn Township in the County of Northampton and State of Pennsylvania, am Sick and weak of body but of sound understanding and memory thanks be unto God who reminded me of the mortality of my Body knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die, do make and ordain this my last will and Testament, that is to say principally and first of all I give my Soul unto the hands of allmighty God who gave it and my Body I recommend to the Earth to be buried in a Christian like and deacent [sic] manner, not doubting but at the General Resurrection I shall Receive the same again by the mighty power of God And as touching such world by Estate wheir with it hath pleased God to bless me in this life I give and Bequeath the same in the following manner and form; First I give unto Susanna my well beloved wife, the one third part of all my movaeable Estate And as long as she Remaineth a widow she shall have annually for her support from my plantation, the widow seat on the place in a comfortable dwelling yearly ten Bushels of rye, five Bushels of wheat and five Bushels of Buckwheat each kind good and saleable the same to be taken to Mill and brought to her dwelling. Eighty pounds of pork and twenty-five pounds of Beef, the one fourth part of the Kitchen Garden, twenty perches[?] to be ploughed and manned for potatoes and one and a half perch in the Cabbich piese, one quarter acre to be plought and sowed with turnips and in the orcherd she shall have a Right for her use as many aples when and where she pleases as well for eating, drying and burying, to take as oft as she pleases and when there is apples on barrel of water Cyder and two Barrels of good Rached Cyder, one half Bushel of salt, one quarter of Pepper and alspice and ginger, Ten pounds of good hazelt hemp or flax and fifteen pounds tow[?], three pounds of Good wooll one pair of good new Shews and the same mended as often as needed, three quarts of oyl for Candle Light and firewood brought to her dwelling and cut small as much as she shall want, One Ton of Hay and half as much second Gros hay and Straw as much as she shall want for her Creaturs and Sufficiend Stabling for the same ord, when she is sick, the the possesors of my plantation shall duly attend upon her and do her work. And I Ordain and Constitute my said wife Susanna and worthey friend Martin Wertman to be the only Executor of this my Last Will and Testement. Secondley all the Residue of any personel Estate shall be paid in equal Shares to all my Childrens. Thirdly I give and Bequeath unto my two sons John Martin and Jacob my Plantation whereon I at present live, to them and their Heirs and Assigns for on the following Conditions Namely when my said son Jacob arrives to the Age of twenty-one years, then shall the said Plantation be valued by four Impartial men to what the same may be worth at that time the whole value thereof shall be divided into Equal Shares among all my Children, for the paymend unto my Daughters, the four Impartial men shall be careful how they ordain that so as times and circumstances will permit, that my sayd two sons will not bound two hard and that my Daughters do no fall too short and as the four men shall ordain so shall my said two sons pay unto their sisters and they shall give unto my said wife as their mother the aforesaid support so long as she shall live Together with what is Lawfully Coming to any mother for her Support, for which they Shall have all my Cloathing before hand, forthly My Plantation wich bounds by lands of George Breisck, Henry Rubricht and Leonard Billonan shall be sold to the highest bidder of my Children as soon as the Youngest comes to age. Now I do hereby Revoke all former Wills and Testaments Confirming this and no other to be my last will and Testament. In witness whereof I have hereunto put my hand and seal the 27th day of August in the year of our Lord 1780. Jacob (his mark) Weitzel (seal), ... sealed, published and Declared by the said Jacob Weitzel as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us who have Subscribed our names hearto as witnesses in the presence of the Testator, George Baeisch, Mathias Probst; for the proof see the original will in the office.