ALBERT Wills

Submitted by GFS Eddie@aol.com

Enclosed are two wills ... the first is complete and is the will of my g-g-g-g-grandfather, Adam Albert and I have enclosed it for an article for others to notice the detail, and value assigned to worldly goods in that period.

The second will is that of Hans Michael Albert, Adam's father. A noteworthy item about it is that one son, William Albert, is named. According to a lawyer friend who specializes in wills and such, the naming serves to eliminate any possibility that the person named would be successful in challenging the will, or the validity.

Following is the Will of Adam Albert as it is recorded in Will Book 8 Frederick County, Virginia beginning on Page 317 (not page 357 as the compilation shows), and the appraisement of Adam Albert's property recorded in the same book on page 333.

I Adam Albert of Frederick County and State of Virginia, taking into
consideration my approaching dissolution do make constitute and ordain
this my Last Will and Testament in manner and form following that is to
say first I will and ordain that all my just debts be paid out of my
Estate by my hereafter named Executors as soon as possible after my
Decease

 

Secondly I give and bequeath to my beloved wife Flora my negro woman
Pegg during her natural life. I further will and ordain that my said
wife my son George, Adam, Betsy, Polly, Sally, Susannah and Catherine do
each receive an Equal Division out of the moneys arising from the sales
of my estate both real and personal except as above first excepted to my
wife during her natural life, and in case any of my children die without
heir in their mynority or intestate then and in that case my will is
that an Equal division be made of the Estate of such deceased among my
surviving heirs without exception, and if any money or other property
shall hereafter fall to me from the Estate of Henry Shipler decd, or
from his surviving widow my will is that it be wholly converted to the
use of my daughter Betsy and her heirs. I further direct that my
freehold and Leasehold Estate be sold by my Executors as followeth Viz
on a credit of one year for the first payment, and of two years from the
day of sale for the second payment, the whole to be made in two Equal
payments

 

I also authorize my Executors to negociate and deal with James Chambers
of the State of Kentucky for the redemption of a cer. tract of Land in
that State and now in possession of said Chambers which said tract has
been sold for tax and is offered for redemption and if redeemed to be
disposed of by them as above directed, and Lastly I nominate Constitute
and appoint my beloved son George Aulbert and my trusty friends Daniel
Lynn and John Fry to be Executors of this my Last Will and Testament
hereby revoking and utterly disannulling all other wills grants and
devises by me heretofore made and acknowledging this to be my only and
Last Will.

 

Signed sealed and declared by the said Adam Aulbert to be his last Will
and Testament in the presence of us who have subscribed our names as
Witnesses in the presence of the Testator this fifth day of May A D one
thousand eight hundred and seven.

 

William Bond Adam Albert(seal)

Joseph Wood

John Wrights

 

This notation by the Court follows the will (page 318):

At a Court held for Frederick County the 31st day of August, 1807

This last Will and Testament of Adam Albert deceased was proved by the

affirmation of Joseph Wood and John Wright witnesses thereto and ordered

to be recorded. Daniel Lynn and John Frye two of the Executors named in

open court refused taking upon themselves the burthen of the Execution

thereof which is ordered to be certified.

 

And on the motion of George Albert the other Executor therein named who

made oath according to law certificate is granted him for obtaining a

probate thereof in due form giving security, whereupon he together with

John Parnell and Joseph Parnell, Jr. his securities entered into and

acknowledged bond in the penalty of five thousand Dollars, consitioned

as law directs.

 

By the Court Ia Keith

 

Albert, Adam's Appeasement (Note: written as shown)

We the subscribers being appointed by an order of the Court of
Frederick___to appraise the personal property of Adam Albert decd do
certify that the following list contains all the property to us
presented which has been valued by us as there mentioned at the prices
thereunto annexed.

 

Given under our hands and seals this 24th Oct. 1807.
Conrad Huntsberger (seal)
Joseph Wood (seal)
William Tyler (seal)
Joseph Parnell senr (seal)

 

Dols cents

1 Negro woman Peggy and child valued at 200
1 Mulatto boy named Sampson 150 Dols, and
1 Ditto named Bill 75 Dols 225
2 Smiths Bellows anvill vice and set of tools 40
1 Cow $10 1 Desk $8 1 B___?$6 1 Table $2.50 26.50
1 table $1 9 chairs $2.25 cents
1 looking glass 50 cents 3.75
1 Bible $2 1 cruett stand 75 cents
1 bedstead & card & Mat $1 3.75
1 Washing Wheel & 1 linen ditto and Reel $1 each 3.00
1 chest $1 1 dotrough 50 cents 1 Keg 50 cents 3.00
1 woman's saddle $1 one pair heelgards 50 cents 1.50
1 feather bed furniture and stead 20.00
1 Ditto $10 1 walnut chest $2 1 pair
andirons 50 cents 12.50
? Kitchen Furniture $4.50 cents 1 narrow ax 25 cents
1 cow bell $1 5.75

_____

$544.75

 

At a Court held for Frederick County the 30th day of November 1807 this
appraisement of the Estate of Adam Albert deceased was produced to the
Court, and ordered to be recorded.

 

By the Court

Ia Keith

Will Abstract from book:

Abstract of Wills of Berks County, Pennsylvania. Vol I. 1752-1798. Presented to The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania by Alfred Smith of Philadelphia, Member of the Historical and Genealogical Societies of Pennsylvania

Michael Albert - Tuplehocken

Dec 6 1774 --- Dec 21 1774 --- Vol 2, #183

To wife Margaret - the government of my Plantation until my youngest son
Simon is 21. And then it shall be his, Simon's, or if Adam and Simon
will agree to divide it, they shall do so, at its appraised value. Son
William is named. "Each of my daus shall have a bed and a cow or $10 in
money." - none are named. Philip Klaar and Johannes Albert, Extrs. Wit
by Geo Miller, Nicholas Miller

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