W 1882
Affidavit of Death, Sur Estate of Peter Weitzel deceased
Filed September 28, 1882
Renunciation sur Estate of Peter Weitzel, decd Filed September 28, 1882
Letter of Administration Filed November 8, 1882
Widows Appraisement Filed November 20, 1882
Bond James Weitzel Filed January 20, 1883
Petition of James Weitzel, Administrator of Peter Weitzel Late of Reading, Berks County, Decd. For Order to sell Real Estate. Filed January 20, 1883
Account of James Weitzel Administrator of Peter Weitzel late of Reading, deceased. Filed April 20, 1883
Sir, I Eliza Weitzel, widow of Peter Weitzel, late of Reading, Pennsylvania, deceased, do hereby renounce all my right to letters of administration upon the estate of said decedent, and desire that same way be granted to James Weitzel of said City. Witness my hand, this fifth day of August, A.D. 1882.
Eliza (her mark) Weitzel
Witness present
Henry Weitzel
Geo. M. Ermentrout
State of Pennsylvania
Berks County, ss
James Weitzel, administrator of Peter Weitzel late of Reading, County and State aforesaid, deceased, being duly sworn says that the whole of the personal property belonging to the estate of said deceased was elected and retained as (unreadable) by Elizabeth Weitzel widow of said decedent for the use of herself and family in accordance with the provisions of the Act of Assembly of April 14, 1851, and for that reason no general inventory is filed in said estate.
James Weitzel
Administrator
Sworn and subscribed before we this 8th day of November A.D. 1882
Geo. M. Ermentrout
Know all men by these presents, that we, James Weitzel, Isaac H. Gernand and George Raden are held and firmly bound unto the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in the sum of Sixteen Hundred dollars to be paid to the said Commonwealth, to which payment well and truly be made and done, we do bind ourselves, our Heirs, Executors and Administrators, jointly and severally, firmly by these presents. Sealed with our Seals and dated the nineteenth day of January A. D. one thousand eight hundred and eighty three.
Whereas, application is about to be made to the Orphans Court of Berks county, for an order of sale of all that certain Lot or piece of ground with the one and a half story brick dwelling house there on executed situate on the north east corner of Washington and Thorne Streets Reading aforesaid, Bounded on the north by a ten feet wide alley on the east by property now or late of James Weitzel on the south by Washington Street and on the west by said Thorne Street, containing in front on said Washington Street nineteen feet and in (unreadable) north and south one hundred and eighty feet.
Late the Estate of Peter Weitzel deceased, which shall be sold by the above named James Weitzel Administrator, of all and singular the goods, chattels, rights and credits which were of the Estate of said Peter Weitzel deceased.
The Condition of this Obligation is Such:
That if the above bounden James Weitzel Administrator as aforesaid, shall faithfully appropriate the proceeds of such sale, according to his duties as Administrator aforesaid then this Obligation to be void; otherwise to be and remain in full force and virtue.
James Weitzel, Seal
Isaac H. Gernand, Seal
George Raden, Seal
Signed, Sealed and Delivered in the presence of
John M. Sharp
Geo. M. Ermentrout
I, Elizabeth Weitzel, widow of said deceased, do elect to retain for the use of myself and family, the personal property set out in the foregoing Inventory.
Elizabeth (her mark) Weitzel
Reading, PA. October 23, 1882,
Witness present
Geo. M. Ermentrout
To the Honorable the judges of the Orphans Court of Berks County:
The undersigned appraisers of the personal estate of Peter Weitzel late of the City of Reading in said county, deceased, respectfully certify that after having been duly sworn according to law, they made the foregoing appraisement of the personal property of said deceased, elected to be retained by Elizabeth Weitzel widow of said deceased, as is therein set forth.
Benneville Hemmig
George Rader
In the Orphans Court of Berks County.
To the Honorable, the Judges of the within named Court:
The petition of James Weitzel, administrator of Peter Weitzel late of Reading, in said County, deceased, respectfully showeth: That the said Peter Weitzel died on or about the sixth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and eighty one, intestate, leaving to survive him a widow Eliza Weitzel and seven children, to wit, James Weitzel, Sarah Koller late Weitzel intermarried with Samuel Koller, Charles Weitzel, Elizabeth intermarried with John S. Ebbing, Amanda, intermarried with William Ely, Levi Weitzel and Isaac Weitzel.
Your Petitioner further represents, that the said decedent died seized of and in certain real estate situate in said County, a description of which is hereunto annexed; that the personal estate of said decedent is not sufficient for the payment of his depts., as appears by an inventory and appraisement of all the personal estate of said decedent exhibited in the office of the Register of said County, and by his certificate set forth herein.
Your Petitioner therefore prays the Court to order the sale of the said real estate for the purpose of the payment of the debts of said decedent and he will, &c.
James Weitzel
January 18, 1883
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