Upper Tulpehocken Township, Berks County
September 1828
Heirs: Boltz, Reber
Others: Reber, Fare, Hiester, Miller, Deckler, Kantner, Fike
To the honorable the Judges of the Orphans Court of Berks County.
The Petition of Peter Boltz a son of Valentine Boltz, late of Upper Tulpehocken Township in the County of Berks aforesaid, Yeoman deceased -
Respectfully Represents
That his said father died Intestate on or about the latter end of the month of September last, leaving a Widow named Catharine, and issue four children and the issue of his son George Boltz who died in the lifetime of the said Intestate. The names of the children are as follows to wit John, Peter, Michael & Catharine intermarried with Peter Reber; and the issue of George are John, Joseph and Catharine, who are yet in their minority.
That the said Intestate died seized in his demesne as of fee of and a certain Messuage Plantation and Tract of Land situated in Upper Tulpehocken Township aforesaid adjoining land of Jacob Reber, Daniel Fare, Jos. Hiester, Christian Miller and others & containing one hundred and forty eight acres, more or less.
Also of & in an undivided half part of a tract of Woodland, in the same Township, adjoining lands of Jacob Deckler, Tobias Kantner, Michael Fike and containing about twenty seven acres more or less.
Your Petition therefore prays the Court to award an Inquest to make Partition of the said premises, to and among the children of the said Intestate, if the same can be done without prejudice to and spoiling the whole, otherwise to value & appraise the same agreeably to law.
Peter Boltz
To Daniel Rhoads Esquire Register of Wills & of granting Letters of Administration in and for the County of Berks and to all to whom these presence come - whereas my husband Valentine Boltz lately died seized and possessed in fee of real & personal estate situated lying & being in the Township of Upper Tulpehocken in the said County of Berks and whereas by the laws of Pennsylvania the right & previlidge of Administring on the goods & chattels of the said Valentine Boltz would devolve on me his widdow. But for diverse considerations me thereunto moving. I do relinquish the same and do thereby request that Letters of Administration on the goods & chattels, rights & credits of the said Valentine Boltz deceased may be granted to my beloved sons John Boltz, Peter Boltz, Michael Boltz and my beloved son-in-law Peter Reber as fully in every respect as they could be extended to me. In witness of the foregoing renunciation I have hereunto set my hand this 30th day of October 1828.
Catherina Boltz (her mark)
Pennsylvania
Berks County, ss.
In the Orphans' Court of Berks County.
Whereas, at an orphans' court, held at Reading, in and for the said county of Berks, on the 10th day of April AD 1829, the First described purpart of the Real Estate of Valentine Boltz of U Tulpehoccan township, in the county of Berks, aforesaid yeoman, deceased, consisting of a certain Messuage, Plantation, and Tract of Land situated in U Tulpehoccan Township aforesaid adjoining lands of Jacob Reber, Samuel Fare, & others, containing one hundred and forty eight acres more or less
Heretofore valued and appraised at the sum of Two thousand four hundred and forty two dollars lawful money of the United States, by an Inquest for that purpose held, in pursuance of an order of the said Court, was accepted by and adjudged to Michael Boltz son of the said deceased upon his paying, or securing to be paid, to Catharine Boltz the widow of the said deceased, the interest of the nett third yearly, and to the other heirs and legal representatives of the said deceased, their equal and proportionable share respectively of the nett two thirds within one year, with interest from the 10th day of April 1829 and of the other third, at the decease of the said widow, of and in the said valuation money. And the said court did then and there decree that if any debt or debts should hereafter be sued or prosecuted, or otherwise duly made to appear against the estate of the said deceased, that a deduction of a proportional part of the same shall be made from the valuation aforesaid of the several purparts of the said real estate … therefore, I the said Michael Boltz acknowledge myself to owe to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sum of Four thousand eight hundred eighty four dollars lawful money as aforesaid, of the real estate, so accepted and adjudged to be made and levied, if default be made in the following condition, that is to say. If the said Michael Boltz heirs, executors, administrators or assigns, shall do well and truly pay or cause to be paid, to the said Catharine Boltz the widow as aforesaid, her yearly interest, and to the other heirs and legal representatives of the said deceased respectively, their equal and proportionable shares respectively, of and in the said valuation money, agreeably to the said adjudication of the court aforesaid, then this recognizance to be void, or else to be and remain in full force and virtue.
Michael Boltz
Taken and acknowledge in open court, this 12th day of November AD 1829.
_ Porter
President of the third judicial district of Penna
Matthias V Richard, one of the judges of Berks County Penna.
Submitted by: Kathy.
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