Estate Record of Herman Benseman

Last Will and Testament of Herman Benseman

Will B 1819
Herman Benseman
April the 22nd

Letters administration was granted with the will annex to Maria Magdalena Benseman widow and select? of Herman Benseman there being no Executor in the will married

I Herman Benseman of Hamburg Berks County mit doc? Do hereby make this last will and testament and revoke all former wills by me at any time heretofore made, that this is to say that my will is, and I desired to be buried with as little expense as decency will permit, and in case my children shall be at or in part minors at my decease, my will is, and I do appoint, that my dear wife shall have the Guardianship and tuition of them as long as she shall continue to be sole and to this end she shall have full power to dispose upon all my real personal or mixed state, either by sale, lein, collections or otherwise as she thinks most advantageous for our children and the payment of my debts. That my said wife in said case have the sole and entire use of the same for and during her natural life, and at her death an exact and equal distribution shall be made to and among all our children, in case of her death during the minority of any or all of my children, I, will that guardian or guardians may be appointed in the common way by the Orphans Court of Berks County and the vesting in said guardian or guardians the full and similar power to dispose upon my property to the best advantage of my children, and in case of marriage of my said wife I will likewise have that guardian should be appointed for the minors, allotting to her one childs part in full.

In witness whereof I, the said Herman Benseman have to this my last will and testament set my hand & seal this tenth day of February A.D. one thousan eight hundred and nineteen.

H Benseman

Signed, sealed, published & declared as the last will and testament of & by him the said Herman Benseman and at his request & presence by us signed by the day & date afores.

Jacob Shollenberger
Adolph Hatzfield

Registers Office, Reading, Berks County April 22, 1819

There appeared Jacob Shollenberger, Adolph Hatzfield, witness to a the aforewritten will who were duly qualified according to law did declare and say; that the were present and did see and here Herman Bensamen the testator; sign publish pronounce and declare this writing and as for his last will and testament and at the time of the doing thereof he the said testator was of sound mind, memory and understanding to the best of their knowledge and as the besily? believe; and further; that the names Jacob shollengerger and Audolph Hatzfield as of the deponants? own hand writing thereto subscribed as witnesses in the ? presents of each other and in the presents and at the particular request of the Testator; Coram me a?

? Rhoads Jr. Regr.

Inventory Sur Estate of Herman Benseman

B 1819
May 6th
$1.25

Inventory of all and singular the goods & chattels, rights and credits, which were of late of Herman Benseman late of Hamburg Berks County m dr?? deceased, exhibited by Mary M. Benseman Adminx with the will annexed, and appraized by us the Subscribers this 27th day of April 1819, as follows

Eberhard Seaman
Jacob Stitzle

Berks County SS

Jacob Stitzle and Eberhard Seamen above named after being duly sworn according to Law depose and say that the above is a true statement of the goods & chattels, rights and credits exhibited to them by the above named administratorix, and tht these valuations thereof is agreeable to their for Judgement and further they say not?

Sworn Subscribed April 1818 before me

Jacob Stitzle
Adolph Hatzfield

Account Sur Estate of Herman Benseman

B 1822
August 7th
Nov. 8th 1822 Confirmed Nisi by the Court
pd $7.00

At an Orphans Court held at Reading in and for Berks County the 8th day of Novem. A.D. 1822 - Judges present

Robert Porter
Gab Heistler

The within account in the Estate of Doctor Herman Benseman deceased being presented for confirmation - is confirmed misc?

By the Court
Wm Schoener Clk of Court

Administration accompl of all and singular the goods and chattles rights and credits which were of late of Doctor Herman Benseman late of Hamburg Berks County deceased, exhibited by Mary Benseman widow sole Administratrix with the will annexed.

The said adminx charges herself with the whole of the Inventory exhibited at the office of the Register of Berks County amounting to 2115.52

Accounts against the following persons have open in the books of the dec. who had receipts of dec. and other wise proved payment to

Accounts against the following persons which are lost, to wit

Errors & omissions excepted

Hamburg July 17th 1822

(signatures - 2)

Whereas Magdalena Bendeman Widow Administratrix with will annexed of Doctr Herman Benseman late of Hamburg, in Berks County, Yeoman deceased, hath this day filed her Account of Administration of the said Estate, in the Office of Register for the Probate of Wills and Granting Letters of Administration in and for said county of Berks: These are therefore to give NOTICE to all Legatees, Creditors and Other Parties concerned , that the said account will be presented to an Orphan's Court, to be held at Reading in and for the county of Berks aforesaid, on Friday the eighth day of November next, for Confirmation and Allowance, agreeably to law.

Peter Aurand (signature) Register.

Reading, October 8th 1822

Date of this Transcription: May 1995, KCW
Location of Original Source Document: Berks Co Register Off, Reading PA
Copy Document Location: KCW, San Diego,CA

Notes

• Above is verbatim transcription of original document to the best of my abilities
• Notes indicate comments by KCW for clarification
• Most of the document hand written, except for the Assessors valuation at the end. In this case, the italicized words are handwritten.

Account of Magdalena Benseman

Berks County, PA
Orphans Court

Orphans Court Proceedings, Reading, Berks, PA, Vol. 8, Pg. 91

The account of Magdalena Benseman Administratrix with the Will annex of Doctor Herman Benseman late of Hamburg Windsor township Berks County deceased, dated July 17, 1822 leaving a balance due the Estate three hundred and forty dollars and eighty two cents.

Date of this Transcription: January 1995, KCW
Location of Original Source Document: FHLC Salt Lake City, UT Mfilm
Copy Document Location: KCW, San Diego,CA

Notes

• Above is verbatim transcription of original document to the best of my abilities
• Entire document hand written

Submitted by Kim.