HENRY SKILES WILL BOOK C, VOLUME 1, PAGE 582-83 LANCASTER CO. PENNSYLVANIA
Be it Remembered that I Henry Skiles of Leacock Township, Lancaster County in the State of Pennsylvania Yeoman do make and ordain this my Last Will and Testament in Manner following that is to say I will and allow my well beloved wife Rosanna my best horse, a good womans sadle and bridle and my best bed and furniture there to belonging and the one half of the residue of my personal estate (after my debts and funeral charges are first, fully paid and satisfied out of such residue). And also, the sum of one hundred pounds lawful money of the State of the profits of my real estate. And the service of my two maid servants names ____ of Jane Wiselle unhill of Age: and Margaret_____ Marlin during the term of her Indenture. This do I will and allow to my said Wife ab-____. And while she lives & remains my Widow I further Will and Allow to her commondious residence & maintenance in my dwelling House and the Sum of five pounds Yearly. And in Case she inclines to live elsewhere and while my Widow I allow here the further Sum of twelve pounds ten shillings on aforesaid yearly or in proportion thereto while she lives elsewhere.

I Will and Allow to my son William Skiles the Sum of five shillings money aforesaid and nomore: he having got from me an ample share before. But I order and here by require him to clear land and discharge my Estate of and from all suits(?) and demands by reason _ means of the deaths by bond which engaged in on account of his land whereon lives, and likewise that he in five years after my decease pay to the use of my sons John Skiles , to wit, To James the sum of eighty six pounds and to John the Sum of eighty pounds money aforesaidina discharge of a bond or bonds of such sums, by him given or that is agreed to be given for their security in the premises it being money I will and allow to them severaly and respectively and which by discount is left or suffered in the hands of my son William for their use and there by further Will allow to my said sons James and John and to my son Alexander Skiles , the sum of five shillings, each, they having got , also, their shairs already including what William has to pay James and John. I Will and allow to my daughter Jane the wife of Andrew Lytle and to my daughter Mary the wife of James Lytle the sum of one hounred twenty pounds money aforesaid , each and payable in two equal payments each yearly, commencing three years after my deciese I Will and allow to my son Henry Skiles the remaning residue of my personal estate and further I give and devise to my said son his heirs and assigns for ever all and singular my plantation and tracks of land to wit; in Leacock aforesaid where I now dwell and my mountain land so called subject and liable never the less to the residents and maintenance of my said wife or the yearly sum mentioned in lieu thereof also to her one hundred pounds to her yearly sum of twelve pounds , to the payment of my said daughters and to the payment of my said sons five shillings each all is aforsaid there by allowing seven shillings to my son Henry all my said cash, what money may be due me at my descease and all my grain in the barn and barrick to enable him the better to pay off his (?) , as aforsaid anything here in contained to the contrary notwitstanding and hereby. thereby nominate and ordain my said sonsinlaw Andrew and James Lytle to be my Excutors of this my Last Will and Testament, hereby revoking all others by me furtherto had been made and confirming this and (?) to be my last Will and Testament. In wittness whereof I have here to set my hand and seal this twenty fourth day of May in the year of our lord one thousand and seven hundred and seventy seven.

Signed & sealed pronounced and declared in the pressents of Stewart Herbert, Sydney Herbert, James Skiles.

Lancaster county on the fourth day of February Anns Domine appeared before me the subscriber James Skiles the serviving wittness of the (?) subscribing wittnesses to the within Will and on his Corprol Oath did dispose and say that they saw Henry Skiles, Sign Seal Publish Pronounce and Declaire the forgoing writing as his Last Will and Testament and that at the (?) there of He was of sound and disposing mind memory and understanding to the best of his knowledge observation and belief.