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Jacob Vetter

Jacob Vetter

Male 1709 - 1777  (67 years)

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  • Name Jacob Vetter 
    Born 31 Dec 1709  Freinsheim, Rheinland-Palatinate, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2] 
    Gender Male 
    Immigration 17 Aug 1729  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4] 
    on the ship Mortonhouse 
    Religion 1741  Oley, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    Address:
    Oley Moravian 
    Will 13 Mar 1777  Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 

    • Will of Jacob Vetter
      In the name of God amen! I Jacob Fetter of the Borough of Lancaster in the County of Lancaster and in the province of Pennsylvania Chairmaker, being aged and at present under some indisposition, but thanks be to God, of sound and perfect mind memory and understanding Do on this thirteenth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven, make and ordain this my last will and testament in manner following to wit, I recommend my soul to God, and my body I commit to the earth, to be buried in a decent and Christian like manner, at the discretion of my herein after named executors, in humble hopes of pardon and remission of all my sins in and through the merits and interceptions of my blessed Saviour and Redeemer Jesus Christ and am happy admissions into the Regions of Bliss and immortality, and as for my worldly estate, I give devise and dispose of the same as follows viz:
      —Imprimis, it is my will and I do order that my just debts and funeral expences be paid of and discharged by my Executors herein after named as soon as conveniently may be done after my God grant happy decease.
      —Item I will order and direct that my herein after name Executors the survivors or survivor of them after my God grant happy decease as soon as convenient may be shall sell the house and lot of ground whereon I now live, as also a lot in Mosserstown together also with all and singular my stock and household goods whatsoever (except what I have given and bequeathed on the former page of this sheet to my loving wife Christine) and I do hereby impower my hereinafter mentioned Executors or the survivors or survivor of them to make and give unto the purchaser or purchaser of my said real estate or estates so sold good and lawful deeds under their hands and seals, the same to have and to hold to them their heirs and assigns forever, and out of the monies arising from the sales of my house and lots, stock and household goods, I order and direct my Executors the survivors or survivor of them to pay off all my just debts, and after they are discharged, it is my will and I do hereby order that the overplus of the money that may yet remain be put out upon interest for the use benefit support and maintenance of my said loving wife Christina during her natural life, with proviso, she stays my widow, but in case she my said loving wife should marry again, than and in such a case, I give and bequeathe unto her, one fourth part of the above said overplus money, and after my said loving wife's marriage or God grant happy decease, which perhaps might happen first, I first give and bequeath unto each of my four following children viz: Jacob, John, Catharine and Eve, the full sum of fifteen pounds lawful money of Pennsylvania, to have before hand in order to put them on and equal footing with the rest of my elder children, - and then I will and order the rest or residue of the remaining money to be equally divided amongst all my children viz: Daniel, Godliss, Peter, Jacob, John, Salome, Catharine, Eva, their heirs and assigns, share and share alike.
      —And Lastly I nominate and appoint my said loving wife Christina my trusty friend Henry Dehuss and Petter Fetter my son, Executors of this my last will, and testament, revoking hereby all former will or wills, testament or testaments by me at any time made heretofore, and declaring this and no other to be and contain my last will and testament. In Witness whereof I have Hereunto set my hand and seal on the day and year first herein written. (the mark of) Jacob Fetter
      Signed sealed published pronounced and declared by the testator as his last will and testament in the presence of us.
      John Miller,
      Peter Reitzel
      J. S. Loeser
    Died 13 Jun 1777  Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 7] 
    Probate 7 Jul 1777  Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    Buried Y  [2] 
    Person ID I637  TangledRoots
    Last Modified 14 Sep 2020 

    Father Nicolaus Vetter,   b. 6 Dec 1657, Altenheim, Ortenaukreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 2 Jul 1726, Freinsheim, Bad Durkheim, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age > 69 years) 
    Mother Maria Elisabetha _____,   b. 18 Nov 1670, Freinsheim, Bad Durkheim, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 4 Nov 1723, Freinsheim, Bad Durkheim, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 52 years) 
    Married 1693  Freinsheim Pfaltz, Bayern, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F383  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Maria Magdalena Bertolait,   b. 12 Jul 1715, Minfeld, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 28 Sep 1755, Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 40 years) 
    Married 1732  Oley, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 16 Jan 2022 
    Family ID F4554  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Christina Metz,   b. 26 Feb 1732, Meddersheim, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 23 May 1791, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 59 years) 
    Married 17 Apr 1756  Lititz, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 16 Jan 2022 
    Family ID F4555  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart


  

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