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- Will of Christian Vinecke
In the name of God amen I Christian Vinecke of the township of Willabough in the County of Lincoln District of Niagara weak in body but of perfect mind and memory thanks be given unto God calling unto mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die do make and ordain this my last will and testament that is to say principally and first of all I give and recommend my Soul into the hand of Almighty God that gave it and my body I recommend to the earth to be buried in decent Christian burial at the discretion or my executors nothing doubting but at the General Resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mighty power of God. And as touching such worldly Estate it has pleased God to bless me in this life I give Demise and Dispose of the Same in the following manner and form -
First I give unto my wife's Grandson Christian Horst the Sum of ten Dollars or the value thereof when he is the age of twenty one years. I give out of my Estate the Sum of fifty dollars or the Value there of to the poor of our Society in this Space of time also I give and bequeath unto my wife Feronica all the cash in money that I lease and two Cows fotter and Stable rom for the feed and Cows to be put in the barn by whoever she has ??? her and firewood to be cut and sawn and out of my household furniture what she has a mind to chose and the Double stove and the half of my Dwelling house and every privilege and fifteen bushels of good wheat and the earth bed next to the house and garden and one hundred weight of good pork or election first to the Quality thereof and the flower of two bushels of buck wheat to bushels of Corn and six bushels of potatis and the intrest of three hundred pounds N. Y. yearly as long as she remains my wido one hundred pounds from my Son Christian to the intress thereof and from Fanny the same and from Anna the same and if my Executors think it not safe to let them have the ??? that is each one hundred pounds the are to tak good Security of them Likewise all my Real Estate and movables to be Equal Divided Amongst my three Children there will be found amongs my items, A little book on record what each has got what my son Christian has got he is to have more as the girls the rest is to be taken to the divide nor no Charge to be made against John Horst for that is in the book now as my family don't like to live hear I have no objections to sell and suit themselves better so that their mother has sofisient to live of as I can't expres my mind in riting I hope it may be understood now I have mentioned in the foregoing that my wife is to have so much yearly out of my farm but it is to be let out for there is none of my children to take it but I hope my Executors will do the best of their knowledge. Also I constitute make and ordain Benjamin Hershey of the township of Willabough and Thomas More of the township of Birtie the Sole Executors of this my last will and testament. And I do hereby utterly disallow revoke and disannul all and every other forms testaments wills Legacies bequests and Executors by me in any wise before named willed and bequeathed ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last will and testament. In Witness whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and Seal this Sixt Day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifteen
Christian Vinecke
Signed Seled published pronounced
and declared by me Christian Vinecke Senr
as his last will and testament in the
presence of us who in his presence and in
the presence of each other have hereunto
Subscribed our names
John Byer
Christian Harshe
Johannes Horst
Lot 9, Concession 13, Walpole Township, Haldimand County
1802 - May 17, 1802 - Crown Patent to Christian Vinecke 200 acres
1845 - Haldimand Instrument # 370 Quit Claim March 5th, 1845
Christian Vinecke Jr. Heir at law of Christian Vinecke Sr. to Christian Shoup Lot 200 acres £50
By this time Christian Vinecke Jr. would have been residing in Lancaster, New York
1845 - Henry Hoover and wife Fanny, Samuel Hoover (his wife Anna died in 1837) and Jesse Hoover (Jesse Hoover born 1820 was Samuel and Anna's eldest son) Quit Claim also to Christian Shoup.
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