1823 Exeter/Alsace
Source: Estate papers of John Hill of Exeter/Alsace Township obtained from the Berks County Court House, Reading, Pa.
To Peter Aurand, esquire, register for the probate of wills and granting letters of administration in and for the county of Berks. Whereas my late husband, John Hill died intestate whereby the right of the administration of the estate of the said deceased did devolve upon me, Catherine Hill, widow and relict of the said desc. Now know ye that for good and diverse reasons and considerations thereunto moving I have released and hereby do release all my rights and title to the administration of the said estate.
Chatarina (her mark) Hill
Witness my hand and seal the thirteenth day of December Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and twenty three
John F ---sneyer
Dec 24, 1823
A true and perfect inventory and just appraisement of all and singular the goods and chattels, rights and credits which were of John Hill late of Exeter Township in Berks County dec. At the time of his death. To wit:
| Deceased wearing apparel | 4.00 |
| 11 Head of cattle | 300.00 |
| 3 horses | 130.00 |
| 2 waggons | 17.00 |
| 1 slay, plows and harrows | 211.00 |
| 333.00 | |
| 1 Wind Mill | 16.61 |
| Corn and rye | 31.35 |
| 23 tuns of hay | 204.00 |
| 24 sheep | 40.00 |
| A lot of plank | 5.00 |
| 5 tenplate stove | 21.00 |
| 318.97 | |
| A lot of sundry articles | 19.50 |
| 5 swine | 35.75 |
| 25 bushels of potatoes | 8.33 |
| A lot of corn fotter | 2.50 |
| A lot of augars (Illegible) | 4.00 |
| 70.08 | |
| Household furniture | 242.87 |
| Grain in the ground | 56.00 |
| $1010.92 |
Taken and appraised by us the subscribers the 18th day of December 1823
Daniel Bertolet
Johannes Stamm
The first administrative account of Peter Hill and Samuel Hill for estate of John Hill of Alsace Township, Dec Nov 1824
Berks County Orphans Court held at Reading in and for the county of Berks on the 5th day of November 1824 before the honorable Robert Porter Esq. President and Wm. Witman and Jacob Schneider Esq. --- judges
The within account being presented for confirmation the same is confirmed ---
By the court
--- Sallade
The first account of Peter Hill and Samuel Hill administrators of all and singular the goods and chattels rights and credits which were of John Hill late of Alsace Township Berks County yeoman, deceased up to the 12th day of July 1824 December 1823 The said accountants charge themselves with all and singular the goods and chattels, rights and credits which were of the said deceased, agreeably to an inventory then of filed in the office of the register at Reading amounting to -----$1010.92
Peter Hill
Samuel Hill
The said accountants claim an allowance for the following disbursements made out of the estate aforesaid to wit:
| 1823 Nov. 24 |
The funeral expenses, minister and school master | 4.00 |
| Dec.13 | John Bickel, tavern expenses | 1.62 1/2 |
| 25 | Susanna Beem | 2.00 |
| 29 | Adam Hahn | 2.74 |
| 1824 Jan 1 |
Peter Schrader for crying vendue | 1.00 |
| 2 | Sarah Babb | 6.28 |
| 10 | Samuel Shaffer | .43 1/2 |
| 17 | John Dehart | .75 |
| 27 | Peter Snyder, collector of county tax | 3.07 |
| 31 | Benjamin Custard | 2.99 |
| 31 | Peter Schratter for crying second vendue | 2.99 |
| Feb. 4 | John Bickel, tavern expenses | .72 1/2 |
| Mar 20 | John Diffenbauch | 1.30 |
| " | David Bobb for coffin | 18.00 |
| " | John Hopler road tax | 2.75 |
| Apr 4 | Catherine Lorah | 1.34 |
| 8 | W.B. Leavenworth for advice | 10.00 |
| 15 | Fredrick Leidle | 2.58 |
| 24 | John Brain | 1.00 |
| May 22 | Isaac Berto payment on note with interest | 95.66 |
| July 9 | Lewis P. Pauli | 5.89 |
| " | George B. Keim | .90 |
| " | George Weimer | 3.50 |
| The accountants claim a credit for decrease of vendue papers from inventory | 323.38 | |
| 496.21 | ||
| For registering this account and orphans court fees | 7.00 | |
| 503.21 |
Berks County Court House Reading, Pa. Vol. 8 Page 514
At an Orphans Court held in and for the County of Berks, the sixth day of August A.D.1824 before the honorable Robert Porter, Esq. president and William Witman and Jacob Schneider, Esq. associate judges. Upon the petition of Peter Hill and Samuel Hill administrators of all and singular the goods and chattels , rights and credits which were of John Hill late of Berks County, yeoman, deceased.
Setting forth that the said intestate left issue eight children to wit. Catherine, who is intermarried with John Christian, now deceased, leaving issue six children Daniel, Susanna, Catherine, John, Elizabeth and William, the three last of whom are minors; Jacob, Elizabeth intermarried with John Lanciscus now deceased, leaving issue one child Catherine, now a minor . After the decease of John Lanciscus aforesaid, the said Elizabeth intermarried with Jacob Spotts and by him has issue three children in their minority, namely Isaac, William and Sarah. The said Elizabeth is now deceased; John, Peter, Samuel, Daniel, Susanna intermarried with Philip Wolfinger. That the personal estate is insufficient for the payments of his debts and by the account herewith produced appears; and that the said intestate died seized in his demiesne as of fee of and in a certain messauge, tenement and tracts of land situate part in Exeter and part in Alsace Township in the county of Berks adjoining lands of John Briener, Conrad Feger, John Dehard and others, containing one hundred and three acres more or less. Therefore praying the court to grant them an order to make sale of the above mentioned and d described premises for the payments of the debts and for the maintenance and education of the minor children of the said intestate. Therefore the court here upon due consideration grant an order to the said Peter Hill and Samuel Hill administrators as aforesaid for the sale of the above mentioned and described premises directs that they do so on Saturday the eighteenth day of September next at ten o'clock in the forenoon on the premises expose the above mentioned and described premises to sale by public vandue or outcry and sell the same for the purpose in the said petition mentioned. The court further directs that they give due public and timely notice of the time and place of sale agreeably to said that they have liberty to adjourn the sale as to time and place and that they make report of their proceeding herein to our next stated Orphans Court to be held at Reading for the county of Berks aforesaid on the fifth day of November next.
By order of the court
To the honorable the judges of the Orphans Court aforenamed
The subscriber acting administrator of the estate within named does hereby report that agreeably to the directions of the foregoing order of the sale at the time and place therein set for the exposed the property therein mention and recited to sale by public vandue or outcry and that the same remains unsold for the want of bidding. Your subscriber therefore prays your ------- to grant him such further time for the sale of the same estate as your ----- may seem and he doth report back
Peter Hill
At an Orphans Court held in Reading in the county of Berks, November 5, 1824.
Present: Robert Porter, William Witman, and Jacob Schneider, judges
The court on motion grant an alias order for the sale of the lands and tenements within mentioned. Sale to be held on the third Saturday in December at 2 o'clock p.m. at the home of John Bickel, innkeeper in the borough of Reading with liberty to adjourn.
Alias order made out.
August 7, 1829. Judges present: Robert Porter, esq. President and Mathias S. Richards, esq.
The court on motion appoint Henry Hahn, Joseph Hiester, and Henry Betr auditors to audir, resettle and restate the accounts of the administrators and make a pro rata distribution.
At an Orphans Court held at Reading in and of the county of Berks the q10th day of April 1829 Before the honorable Robert Porter, esq. President and his associate judges the written account being presented for confirmation the same was confirmed by the court.
--- Hobart, Clerk
The second and final account of Peter Hill and Samuel Hill, administrators of all and singular the goods and chattels, rights and credits of John Hill late of the said Township Berks County, deceased.
| The accountants charge themselves with the balance in their hands in the first account rendered on the 12th day of July 1824 | $507.71 |
| Account of credits brought from ---. Side | $611.86 |
| Accountants claim for their trouble in settling the estate | 150.00 |
| Registers fees and fees of Orphans court | 7.50 |
| $769.36 | |
| Balance due accountants | $261.65 |
The accountants claim allowances for the following disbursements made since the filing of their first account.
| 1824, July 28 Peter Kuhn, per recpt. | $ 3.00 |
| Nathan Tomlinson | 1.00 |
| John B. Otto | 9.50 |
| " " | 11.50 |
| John Labb | 2.80 |
| Herman Toshen | 1.50 |
| Willaim Heller | .50 |
| 0.64 | |
| John Bickle, recpt | .37 |
| Samuel Boone | 10.50 |
| John Bickle | 3.09 1/2 |
| " " | 11.85 |
| John Sands | 3.67 |
| Benjamin Tobias | 2.30 |
| 37.78 | |
| Jacob Saladi | 8.25 |
| John Ritter | 5.75 |
| Charles Ringler | 3.00 |
| D.W. Hyde | 4.50 |
| Widow of John Hill | 44.76 |
| 66.26 | |
| Arbitration wages in the suit of the administrators of John Hill against Jacob Bidding | 7.00 |
| Costs to proth. Sallade | 1.50 |
| " " " | .50 |
| Costs to witnesses | 2.37 |
| 11.37 | |
| 1826, 1st April Accountants crave a credit for paying one half of John Hill, des. Bond given to Isaac Barto with one half of the interest. Said bond is dated May 8th 1819. Conditions for the ---200. One ---. With interest 320.62 Ditto on another dated the 8th day of May 1819 and payable 1st April 1824 | 74.64 |
| Ditto on another bond payable 1st April 1825 for 50 pounds one--- with interest | 70.65 |
| 611.86 |
February 25, 1829
Peter Hill
Samuel Hill
NOTES
John Hill, the younger, was born about 1758 in Oley Twp. About 1780 he married Catherine Schneider, daughter of Peter Schneider and Eva Appolonia Youngman.
Their children were:
Submitted by: Beatrice.
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