In the name of God amen I William Becklehymer of the County of Clermont and State of Ohio being sick and weak in body but of sound and disposing mind memory and understanding considering the certainty of death and the uncertainty of the time thereof and b

Martin Weddle’s Will

In the Name of God, Amen. I Martin Wadle in Botetourt County & Colony of Virginia being in perfit halth & Sound Memory, Blessed be God for all his mercis but knowing the frailty of the Bodey & the Immortality of the Soul & in the Provadence of God being called to go a Jorney doth this Seventeenth day of October 1782 Mak this my last Will and Testement in manner & form as followeth. First I commit my Spirit into the hand of God who gave it & my bodey to the dust to be berried at the descration of my frends & Executors & I alow all my Lawfull debts to be paid & funeral charges & next I alow and bequeath unto Benjamin Wadle my beloved son five Shillings, Virginia Currency if demanded & no more, because I have given him the part of my Estate that I allow to give him & that to be paid him on his order, Twelve Months after my Dece, & next I alow & bequeath unto Kathrean Wadle my beloved wife during her natril life to live in my dwelling house & to be found in a Suficiency of good firewood, holled to her house & cut & Split Suteble for her & to find her fifteen Bushels of Merchionible Wheat & five Bushels of Riy or Indin Corn every year of her natril life & Likewise 150 lb of Pork & Beef and to keep her a Cow and Calf & to use them as what is suficient both winter & Sumer & to keep her a hors or mare so as she may have it when she please & to keep her five Sheep all in a suficient manner & to find her 28 ft of swingled flax or the value thereof in Hemp & to find her 2 pear of Shuse all Yearly, every year of her natural life, and to pay for her wifing the same, & to find her half a Bushel of salt yearly all which I alow to be given her from the benefit & Income of my Plantation & I likwis Give & bequeath unto my Daughter Barbara Philsthimer and her husband John Philtshimer & to their Heirs Executors Administrators on all my real and personal Estate whatsoever I am or may be possed & I appoint & Impower my beloved wife Kathrin Wadle and John Philsthimer, my son in Law, my Lawfull executors to fulfill this my last will & Testament & I dise nul all former will, & Testaments, & Logiscays? Whatsoever. Given under my hand & Seall

Martin Wattil Seal

Signed, sealed & acknowledged by Martin Wadle to be his last will & Testament in the presence of

Jno Pedan

Robert Beavers

John Pedan, jr

At a Court held for Botetourt County the 13^th Day of March 1783

This Instrument of writing was presented in Court as and for the last Will & Testament of Martin Wadle dece’d and Proved by the Oaths of John Pedan, Robert Beavers & John Pedan, jr witnesses thereto and Ordered to be recorded & on the Motion of John Philsthimer one of the Executors therein named who made Oath according to Law Certificate is granted him for obtaining Probate thereof in due form he having first entered into and Acknowledged Bond in Five Hundred pounds with John Pedan & John Henry his securities according to Law, and lease is reserved for Kathrine Wadle the other Exec’r to join in the Probate.

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Jas? Tyle, jn DC

Examined

The Appraisment of the Estate of Martin Wettil deceas’d

300 Acres of Land 100

1 black Mair 20

1 bay Mare 8

1 Cow & Calf 3.10

1 Two Year old Bull 1.10

2 Year old Heffers 2

1 Cow & Calf 3

4 Sheep 2

1 Crosscutt Saw 1.10

1 Smooth Bore Gun 1.5

1 Spade and foot Edge 0.9.6

Cow Chains 0.12

1 Hackel 0.10

1 Hand-saw & Danknife 0.10

2 Axes 0.6

Sundry Aricles 0.19

1 Crobar 0.10

1 Planck 0.5

Sundry Vesels 1

1 Saddle & Bags 4.10

Sundry Household-furniture 3.5

Sundry Tools 2.8

One side Saddle 1.10

Coat Pathen? 2.10

Sundry Books 0.15

1 Chest 0.6

Sundry Hoggs 7.10

One Bed & furnitin 5

Seales & Vise 0.6

By Debt & Cash 10

Agreeable to an Order of Court to us directed being Sworn we find the Estate of Martin Waddle dec’d when appraised by us to Come to L185:16..6

Tho’s Poage

Abraham Philsthimer

Jacob Philsthimer

John Philstimer

At a Court held and continued for Botetourt County the 12^th June 1783 the Inventory & Appraisement of the Estate of Martin Waddle dec’d was returned to Court and ordered to be Recorded

Teste D May CBC