In the name of God Amen, I George Shellhammer of the Township of Black Creek in the County of Luzerne, and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Yeoman, being sick and weak in body but of sound and disposing mind, memory and understanding (blessed be God for the same) and considering the uncertainty of this mortal life; and being desirous of settling my worldly affairs; Do make and publish this my Last Will and Testament in manner and form following to wit: Principally and first of all, I commend my immortal Soul into the hands of God who gave it, and my body to the Earth to be buried in a decent and Christian like manner, at the discretion of my Executors hereinafter named, and as to such worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this life, I give and dispose of the same in the following manner to wit: I give to my loving wife Margaret Sophia, for as long as she shall continue and unmarried after my decease the new part of the house I now live in to be furnished for her and ten dollars for nursing me and her Brother William is to have the place, and one bed and one bow, one ton of hay yearly, five bushels of wheat, five bushels of rye, five bushels of corn, five bushels of buckwheat, five bushels of oats, five bushels of potatoes, twenty pounds of coffee, fifteen pounds of sugar, one hundred and fifty weight meat yearly, and six plates, half dozen knives and forks, half dozen spoons, three dishes and three bowls, half dozen cups and saucers, half ground of pepper, half a pound of allspice, firewood to be cut up and hauled to the door, one bushel of salt, those articles to be yearly from the half pound of allspice to the end of the salt, one iron pot, one stove, one tea kettle, one frying pan; as to my real and personal property, to be rent out or sold, and the money to be equally divided and there hase being given an article to each of my children for one hundred acres and at the expiration of seven years each one was to pay me one third of all the grain, and there is a book which will show who has paid up and those that has not, must have so much less, as they are behind in the yearly rent, there is an Article with Isaac Driesbach for one hundred Acres of land, which I leave to my daughter Mary Dreisbach wife of the said Dreisbach to have the use of it during his life and the for her and her children after her death, and the ballance of my personal and real estate or her share, I leave to Mary and her children, Isaac Shellhammer and David has each agreed for a piece of Land each, and they were to pay six dollars per acre, the Executors to make a deed for each of my heirs. And I hereby nominate and appoint Christian Yost, and Jacob Fry of Nescopeck Township and Yost of Blackcreek to be Executors of this my last Will and Testament. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this ninth day of October one thousand eight hundred and fifty.

George Shelhammer

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