In the Name of God, Amen. I the undersigned, Martin Zettelmeyer, in Windsor Township Berks County and State of Pennsylvania, that I am indeed feeble sick and weak, but having my full understanding, recollection and memory and judgment just as in my healthy days of having and enjoying make and declare hereby these presents as my last Will and Testament, namely:

Firstly I commend my immortal soul into the hands of my God, and in consideration of the worldly goods with which it has pleased men to bless me, I order as follows, namely:

That my actual debts and burial expenses be paid by my Executors as soon as they are able, and as soon as possible after my death make an inventory of my home implements, outstanding debts, and other movable property. Moreover my wife Elisabeth shall have the stone apartment for her residence as well as the right of the kitchen and in the cellar just as the owner of the other apartment so long as she remains unmarried. And she shall get to retain the following, namely 15 bushels of corn, 4 bushels of wheat, 2½ bushels of French corn, and the fruit in the mill as she needs it, pollard and crushed grain carried back to her house; one hundred pounds of good suitable hog meat and the intestines of a hog as well, 30 pounds beef 3 bushels cooked beer grain, one bushel dried apples, namely one half bushel sweet and one half bushel sour, a barrel of good cider and a barrel of water cider, when there are apples, a bushel salt and flax and produced cloth for 3 shirts, and half flax for a gown, every year a pair of shoes, a pair soled and mended, a fourth part old meal, two pounds coffee, 4 pounds sugar, and each of these articles are to be measured, bought and given yearly, and then she shall have a cow which shall be fed summers and winters by the owner of her cattle, and every two years she shall have the choice to take another cow and give back the one off milk, if the cow should happen to die, then the owner must give her another, and her Bed together with her bed chest. her spinning wheel, a chest, a half dozen coffee cups, a half dozen plates, 6 spoons, a soup dish, a water bucket, a bath tub, a cook pot, a meat fork, a cook spoon, 6 knives and forks and a pipe stove with the pipe, an iron pan, and the chopped firewood, to pick from the small farm and the house and to carry home as often as she needs, if she should happen to marry again, then she shall give up each of the articles above named, except her bed and spinning wheel, as also she shall not have the articles retained. And she shall have a small cabbage patch, that is to say in the garden, and the owner shall let my wife clean her piece of the garden and dig it as her own and when she is not able to dig about, then the owner must dig it as her own; and my wife shall have the right to the springhouse, as the owner of the land, and the storeroom in the stone apartment, she shall have all of the property, and green apples to eat, as much as she wants, and he must give her a stable on the farm for a hog, and the old cart and when she wants to drive or ride, must give her a horse with saddle and bridle. Moreover both my sons David and Martin shall have my plantation, and then my executors shall choose three impartial men to value the land under their oath, and when the land has been valued, then the first year they shall allot in thirds each part which comes to each child, beginning with the oldest and so on down to the youngest, this will be done three times, and my executors shall have the right to transfer my land to my two sons David and Martin as if I were present there, and after my death my below-named executors shall sell all the movable goods which are not my wife’s and the balance or what is remaining after paying the debts. shall be divided in equal shares among my children, and I nominate and appoint my beloved wife Elisabeth and my brother Peter Zettelmeyer as executors and to carry out my last will and testament. Moreover if my wife Elisabeth becomes confused, they shall allow my son Peter to live in her house, and after her death my son Peter shall make his residence with his brother David or Martin, and shall receive all necessary clothing and Christian and brotherly management and if David’s brother Peter is unmarried and boarding with him, his brother Peter shall inherit after his death, the owner of the goods at the time is bound to give to my father Martin Zettlemeyer out of his reservoir (ausbehalt), and if my wife Elisabeth becomes sick or is generally not able to help herself then the owner of the land is bound and obliged to wait upon and care for her and also the owner of the estate at the time is obliged to pay the death and burial expenses after her death. Moreover I Bequeath to my son Peter the chestnut horse, under the condition that my son David take over the feeding and care of the horse, and my son David shall have the same right to use the horse as my son Peter. To this document I Martin Zettelmeyer have signed and sealed with my own hand thus done on the nineteenth of June one thousand eight hundred and thirty three.

(Will Book 7, page 126, Berks County Register of Deeds)