THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT
OF
HENRY EGOLF

Be it remembered that I Henry Egolff of Liberty Township Fairfield County Ohio considering the uncertainty of this mortal life do make and publish this my last Will and Testament in manner and form following, towit, first I will and order that my beloved wife, Mary shall have the use and privilege of one half of the new house which is now building near the same during her life--

Secondly, I give to my said wife one good bed and bedding and table and all my kitchen furniture the whole of my garden and two rowes of apple trees in my orchard where she may chose to have them from east to west through the orchard and one third part of all other kind of fruit which may be on that part of my land which I herein will to my son Henry.

Thirdly, I will and order that my son Henry Egolff shall give to my said wife each and every year that she may live the following articles towit, Ten bushels of wheat six bushels of rye and fifteen bushels of corn, one fat hog weighing at least one hundred and fifty pounds and six pounds of heckled flax, and he shall keep our cow for her in feed and pasture and shall deliver to her a sufficient quantity of fire wood cut ready to put on the fire, and do all the milling for her that she may want, all of which he shall do and perform for her yearly and in due season as long as she may live and he shall also pay her six dollars yearly as long as she may live provided she shall remain my widow but if she shall mary again then and in that case she shall be deprived and disposed of the privelidges and rights to any of the goods and properties and profits of what I have given and ordered to her by this my last will and testament and all of said property shall immediatley fall to my said children.

Fourth I give to my son Henry Egolff eighty acres of land at five dollars per acre lying and being in the south part of the southeast quarter of Section No. 11 in Township no. Sixteen of range No 19 of the lands sold at Chillicothe beginning at the southeast corner of my son Josephs land thence with his line to the 1st corner thence north to the 2nd corner thence west to the 3rd corner thence the line to be run in such a manner as to include eighty acres by intersecting the western boundary line at the north east corner of Joseph Van horns land or the south east corner of my land which I have bought of Jacob Roshow which he shall pay in the following manner, ( ? ), one hundred dollars in the price of his land he shall retain as part of his legacy and one hundred dollars he shall retain till after the death or widowhood of my said wife and two hundred dollars he shall pay to my heirs as follows, twenty five dollars he shall pay one year after my death and the ballance in five equal payments beginning one year after the death or widowhood of my said wife--

Fifth --- I give to my son John Agolff sixty acres of land being in the north west part of the afoursaid quarter with track of land which I have bought of Jacob Rushow which I give to him at four dollars per acre in which price the land he shall also retain one hundred dollars as part of his legacy and one hundred and forty dollars he shall pay to my heirs as follows in five annual payments of fourty dollars, beginning one year after my death ? and to my son Joseph Agolff I have sold to him sixty acres of land and have taken his notes for the price of the land and have made him a deed for the same and now I will that he retain eighty dollars out of the notes as part of his legacy of which he may retain twenty five dollars of the first and the second payments each that may be due after my death and the third payment after my death he shall pay the full amount and out of the last notes shall retain thirty dollars so that he will have the eighty dollars aforesaid and further I will that my daughter Maria shall have eighty dollars out of my estate towit, out of the first moneys collected of my estate or one year after my death she shall receive twenty five dollars, and in two years after my death she shall receive twenty nine dollars and the balance of her eighty dollars she shall receive four years after my death and I will that my son Daniel Agolff shall receive of my estate eighty dollars, twenty five dollars out of the first land payments and twenty five dollars out of the second payment and thirty of the fourth payments, and I will that my daughter Catherine shall have eighty dollars of my estate which she shall receive all at one time out of the third land payments, and I will that my son Adam shall receive of my estate one hundred and five dollars of which he shall receive of the fourth land payments twenty seven dollars and the fifth payment seventy eight dollars and I also will to Jeremiah son of my daughter Maria the sum of twenty five dollars which shall be taken out of the (?) Land payments and put on interest till he shall be of lawful age but if he should not live to be twenty one years of age then the said twenty five dollars shall be equally divided amongst all my heirs---

And I do further will and order that my said wife in addition to what I have given and ordered to her shall have the privilidge of reeusing any sort of fouls and keeping them on the said primises as my fully answer her ends and that after her death or widowhood of my said wife all that I hereby given her shall be equally divided amongst all my heirs ? and that if my son Henry should die or refuse to give to my said wife what I have himself ordered then she shall have thepower to (?) the corner of the lands which I have willed to my son Henry as long as she may live or remain my widow. And lastly I appoint my sons Adam and Henry Agolff Executors of this my last will and testament hereby revoking all other wills and testaments by me ever made.

In witness whereof I have herewith set my hand and seal this twelfth day of July AD 1829 in the presence of Joseph Heistand John Amspacher Israel Rashon

Henry Agolff

THE STATE OF OHIO FAIRFIELD COUNTY

At a special Court of common Pleas holden at Lancaster in and for said County on the 26th day of October AD 1829 Presccut John Augustus Jacob D Deitrick and Elnatthare Scoffield Esqrs associate Judges of the Court of Common Please in and for said county the last will and testament of Henry Agolff dec is produced in Court and Joseph Heistand and John Amspacher two of the subscribing witnesses then to being duly sworn say that they witnessed the will in presence of each other and of the testator and that he was of sound mind and memory at the time and requested them to witness the same as his last will and testament in which it is ordered to be recorded and that Adam Agolff Executor give Bond with Peter Shiner and Jacob Roshon in the sum of $800 and that Joseph Heistand Daniel Smothers Esq and Michael Amspacker be appointed appraisers of the goods of the said decedent. Bond as aforesaid given and the said Eecutor qualified

Attest Hugh Boyle (?)