Volentine Frits

Will In

In the name of God Amen.

I

Volentine Frits of the county of Brown Ohio being

weak in body but of perfect mind and memory

thanks be given to God calling into mind the

mortality of my body and knowing that it is ap-

pointed 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 hands of Almighty

God that gave it and my body I recommend

to the earth to be buried in decent christian

burial at the discretion of my relatives nothing

doubting but at the general resurrection I shall

receive the same again by the mighty power of God

and (tou?)ching such worldly estate wherewith it please

God to bless me in this life. I give devise and

dispose of in the following manner and form

that is to say I give and bequeath Mary Frits

my dearly beloved wife whom I ordain Executrix and

Isaac Roth Executor of this my last will & testament.

First to Mary my beloved wife I give and devise

the place that I now live in with all the rents and

profits arising therefrom during her life and after

her death to be equally divided between my two

sons namely David and Volentine Frits likewise

to my daughter Priscilla Frits all the movable

property. Likewise the land that I own in Ken-

tucky on Red River Blake County to be equally

divided between my two sons namely, Michael

and Henry Frits and I do hereby utterly disallow

revoke and disannul all and every other former

testament, wills, legacies, bequests, Executrix or

Executor by me in any ways before named

willed and bequeathed ratifying and confirming

no other. to be my last will and testament. In

witness my hand and seal this twenty fifth day

of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight

hundred and twenty three. his

Volentine + Frits (Seal)

mark

Signed, sealed, pronounced and delivered by

the said Volentine Frits 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

his

Joseph + Pall(er?)

James Cochran