Jacob Kagy

Will of Jacob Kägy

       In the Name of God Amen! I Jacob Kagey of Heidelberg Township, York County, & State of Pennsylvania, Farmer, being Old & very weak in Body, but of perfect Mind & Memory, thanks be given unto God, calling to Mind the Mortality of my Body Do make & ordain this my Last Will & Testament, in manner following that is to  Say; . . . . I give and bequeath to my beloved Wife Barbara the bed & bedstead which we sleep in, and also her Chest, which I give to her besides her third part of all my  Moveable Estate except as is hereafter mentioned and also her Choice of two Cows out  of my Cows, and the remainder of my Moveable Estate Shall be Equally Divided amongst my Four Children Viz: My Oldest Son John Kagey & my Sons Jacob Kagey  and Abraham Kagey & my Daughter Anna now the wife of Jacob Forer, excepting my Clock & Clock Case & my Book of Martyrs, which I give and Bequeath to my Son Jacob besides his equal share of my other moveables . . . . And further my Will is that  my Sons Jacob & Abraham shall give three Barrels of Cider & Seven Bushels of Apples  Yearly unto my Wife Barbara whenever there is a plentiful Year of Apples, And She  shall have a Right to Live in my Dwelling House as Long as She remains my widow along with my Son Jacob, and to have the third part of my Garden & a Small piece of Garden near the House.  And of the following articles my Sons Jacob and Abraham each of them shall give an equal half part, to my said Wife yearly & every Year as long as She remains my widow that is to say, Twelve Bushels of wheat, Six Bushels of Rye and five Bushels of Indian Corn and twenty pounds of Beef and ten pounds of Hecheld  Hemp or Flax and five pounds of wool and Liberty to keep a Hog with their Hogs but if  penned up to fatten she shall feed it at her own expence and they Shall keep her two  Cows along with their own & feed them as they do their own Cows, and plow and find  her half a Quarter of an acre of Potatoe Ground, and they shall take her Grain to the Mill and home again, and they Shall find her in Fuel and give her the third part of the Eggs as Long as She remain my Widow.  And my Will is that if my Son Jacob Shall weave the Cloth for me & my Wife during our Natural Life that then he Shall have my Loom and the geers & tackling belonging to it . . . . . In Witness whereof I have hereunto Set my hand & Seal this Tenth Day of November Anno Domini One Thousand Seven Hundred & Eighty seven 1787.

                                                                                                                                                       Jacob Kägÿ