Peter Cryder Will

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Will Book 2, Pages 219-222 Huntingdon County, PA Last Will and Testament
of Peter Cryder 

Peter Burket Joseph Cryder Exr Of Peter Cruder deceased Memorandum
Letters Testamentary were this day granted to Peter Burket and Joseph
Cryder for the Estate of Peter Cryder Deceased. Inventory to be
exhibited on or before the 30th day of April AD. 1818 and a just and
true account calculation and Rekoning of their administration or before
the 31st day of March 1818 or when thereunto legally required. Given
under the seal of office 31st march 1818 William Steel, Register 

Last Will & Testatment Of Peter Cryder, dec'd. In the name of Lord amen,
I Peter Cryder of Tyrone Township Huntingdon County and Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania being somewhat indisposed in Body, but of sound and
disposing mind and memory and knowing the uncertainty of life and that
it is appointed for all men once to die and in order to promise peace of
unanimity amongst those concerned and for the more easy and ready
settling and disposing of the good things which it hath pleased the Lord
to bestow upon me in this world. First, I do truly resign my immortal
and never dying soul to him from whom I received it who is Lord of Gods
and Lord of Lords, and my mortal body to the Earth from whence it came,
to be interred in a Christian life manner in full believe that it shall
rise again at the Great and General day where all shall come forth that
God may guide them. Item first, I order that all my lawfull and just
debts be first punctually paid together with the cost and expenses
accruing from my funeral out of my personal or real estate. Item 2d, I
bequeath to my living wife, Martha Cryder, the full use and bennifit of
my plantation in Tyrone Township where on I now live until my youngest
child, Easter Cryder, attains to the age of fourteen years. She being
three years the 13th day of last December. She the said Martha keeping
and supporting and clothing and schooling all the minor children that
are younger than my son Henry Cryder and whatever of them come to age
before the expiration of the fore mentioned time of the said Martha
holding the place. She shall not be bound for longer than they arrive at
age and if the said Martha should marry any other man before my said
youngest daughter comes to the age of fourteen then I allow my
plaintation to be rented out for the support and education of the minor
children until the said term of fourteen years would be complet from the
birth of my youngest daughter. I also leave my loving wife, Martha
Cryder, is to have the bald horse roan mare and one of the two year old
colts and her choice of three of my cows and one heifer of three year
old and one sow and pigs and six of the middle seized hogs & bread and
meat for the families support and necessary feed for the horses until
next harvest and to have the little wagon and long ladders, one plow and
harrow and and geers for the horses fit for halling or ploughing and the
wind mill for cleaning grain and whatever the said Martha Cryder chooses
to keep of the household or kitchen furnature and she is to have the rye
in the ground in the field behind the house and my part of the wheat in
the ground on James E. Stewarts place and at the end the end of fourteen
years from the said birth of my youngest daughter or at the marrige of
my said wife Martha Cryder. Henry Cryder, my son, I allow him to have
the place if the said fourteen years is fully complete and said Martha
Cryder is to give up the place to my son Henry Cryder together with the
horses if an unavoidable accident should happen and then she is not in
that case to be accountable to whatever of them be dead until she hath
had them a sufficient time that would ____ her to replace them or any of
them and also the Waggon plough and Harrow and the wind mill and the
place and the said horses wagon, ploy Harrow and Windmill is all to be
prized and given to my son Henry at the apprizement if he chooses to
take it, with him paying or causing to be paid the following requests
that is he in the first place the said Henry Cryder is raise a
comfortable house for Martha Cryder to live in while she remains my
widow and stabling fitting for two cows and a piece of ground fit for a
gardin and to receive from my said son Henry Cryder, if he takes the
place at apprizement he is to give yearly and ever year twelve bushels
of good whiat, ten bushels of rye and ten of corn when demanded and two
cows pasture with his own when in the fields and to sow half bushel of
flaxseed every year and to cut and hall a sufficiency of firewood each
year fit for fire or stove and two ton of hay each Winter for her cows
each winter and when there is any aples on the place, the said Martha
Cryder is to have of them a sufficiency of them for her house use and
fifty pounds of beef and one hundred of hog meat yearly and liberty keep
one hog each year and when there is any cider made to she is to have
half a barrel each year that there is any made on said place and in case
my son Henry Cryder do not chooses to take the place and aforesaid
property at the approvement then I allow my son Jacob Cryder to have the
offer of it at the apprizement still subject to the foregoing bequests
to my wife Martha Cryder while she remains my widow and to be still
subject to the foregoinggoing dower and to the dividend to the rest of
my children in the following manner. And in case any one of my said sons
or any one of my daughters should take the place at the aprizement and
the foregoing property they are to retain the one third of what the
place of property are apprized at while Martha Cryder, remains my widow
or until her decease and the other two thirds of the price of my place
and the debts outstanding and property of my personal estate after the
payment of my debts as before mentioned. I allow as they become due to
be equally divided amongst my dutiful children [viz Henry Cryder,
Elizabeth Cryder, Barbara Cryder, Jacob Cryder, Nancy Cryder, Mary
Cryder and Easter Cryder, and the third retained either at my wife
Martha Cryder, marriage or at her decease to also equally divided
amongst my foregoing children as soon as due or can be collected and if
none of my children will accept of the place and property mentioned. If
at the apprizement, I allow my Executors to sell my said plantation and
the foregoing property returned by the widow and to make a deed or deeds
for all and every of my real estate and be as good and available in law
or equity as if I were personally present to Execute the same and allow
my said executors after securing the widow dower either to her marriage
or to her decease to divided the the remainder amongst my forenamed
children equally as it becomes due and the same manner after the widows
marriage or decease to divide the said dower equally amongest my said
children. And I do hereby constitute and appoint my trusty friends 
Peter Burket sen. And Joseph Cryder, my sole Executors of this my last
will and Testament and do hereby utterly disallow, revoke, disannul all
and every other and former Will Testament Wills legacies bequests and
Executors by me or in any ways before named willed and bequeathed
ratifying & confirming this and no other hereunto set my hand and seal
this twelfth day of March One thousand eight hundred and eighteen 1818.
Signed sealed in pronounced and delivered in presence of us Sam Kyle
David Beyer Peter Cryder (seal) (in German) William X (his mark) Irwin