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• Name: John MUSSER
• Sex: M
• Birth: 1777 ^b
• Death: 1825 in West Hempfield Twp, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania ^d


Parents:

• Father:
  
• John MUSSER Birth: 1754 Death: 1817

Family:
Marriage:

• Mary SHALLENBERGER .^m1
  
• Mary SHALLENBERGER

Children:

1. Peter MUSSER
2. Mary MUSSER

Bibliography

Sources for birth and parent Information

date:

[Ref: MusserEA MUSSER p89, MusserEA MUSSER p90],

father:

[Ref: MusserEA MUSSER p89, MusserEA MUSSER p90]

Sources for death Information

date:

[Ref: MusserEA MUSSER p89, MusserEA MUSSER p90]

between 9 Apr 1825 and 10 Apr 1826 [Ref: LancasterCoPA WillAbs3 p76],

place:

[Ref: LancasterCoPA WillAbs3 p76, LancasterCoPA Wills O-475]

Sources with Information about marriage to Mary SHALLENBERGER

names:

[Ref: LancasterCoPA WillAbs2 p227]

John MUSSER & Mary ___ [Ref: LancasterCoPA WillAbs3 p76, LancasterCoPA Wills O-475, MusserEA MUSSER p89, MusserEA MUSSER p90],

child:

[Ref: LancasterCoPA WillAbs3 p76, MusserEA MUSSER p90]

Research Notes:
will dated 9 Apr 1825, recorded in Book O-1, p475 [Ref: MusserEA MUSSER p90]

will dated 9 Apr 1825, pro 10 Apr 1826, O475, of West Hempfield Twp, mentions wife Mary, children Peter and Mary wife of Henry Weller. [Ref: LancasterCoPA WillAbs3 p76, LancasterCoPA Wills O-475]

----- Lancaster County PA Wills O-475, dated 9 Apr 1825, pro 10 Apr 1826:
In the name of God Amen. I John Musser of West Hempfield township in the County of Lancaster and State of Pennsylvania, being no win perfect health and of sound mind memory and understanding, blessed be God for the same, and considering the uncertainty of this mortal life, do make and publish this my last will and Testament, in manner following, to wit, Principally and first of all I recommend my immortal soul into the hands of God who gave it and my body to the earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my son and daughter named Peter Musser and Andrew Shallenberger being my Executors of my last Will and Testament, and as to such worldly estate as it has pleased God to bless me with, I dispose of the same as follows, viz, It is my will and I do hereby order and direct that all my just debts and funeral expenses be duly paid and satisfied as soon as conveniently can be after my decease. It is my will and I do hereby order and direct that my dear wife Mary Musser shall have the one half part of all the produce of my farm, during her natural life after my decease, and before my decease my son Peter shall every year during my life deliver to me in the bushel on my farm the one half of all the grain vegetables etc that will be raised on all the land now owned by me and that I have given to my said son Peter. Item I do hereby reserve for my own use and the use of Mary my wife the privilege of storing our one half part of the grain aforesaid in the house and barn I now occupy during our natural lives, together with garden sufficient for our use. Item I give and bequeath unto my son Peter seventy seven acres of land, more or less, the same he has a deed form me for, in fee simple. And I further bequeath unto him the one half of the cleared land, and two thirds of the woodland or the uncleared land, and the meadow and orchard all out of the forty nine acres and forty eight perches of land that my said son Peter reconveyed to me. Item I give and bequeath unto my daughter Mary, intermarried with Henry Weller during her natural life and at her decease to her children share and share alike, the other one half of the cleared land and the one third of the uncleared or woodland reconveyed to me by my son Peter. And I further bequeath unto my said daughter four acres of cleared land and two acres of woodland for which the said Henry Weller has received of me a deed for. And also bequeath unto my said daughter the five and a half acres of woodland reconveyed to me by my son Peter, and the said Henry Weller is only to have the occupancy of the said bequeaths during his natural life he nor his wife Mary nor her heirs shall and are hereby prohibited from turning or diverting the water from running its present natural course that runs through the land bequeathed to my said daughter Mary. Item Of the land bequeathed to my son Peter and to my daughter Mary of that reconveyed to me by my son Peter as in the two last items they may make the division as I have bequeathed to them, with the assistance of my Executors hereinafter named, and of the seventy seven acres conveyed to my son Peter I reserve the right for myself and wife live in the dwelling house thereon, the right to cut down timber and possession in common with my son aforesaid during out natural lives of all things on the same. Item, I give and bequeath unto my son Peter my clock at my decease, and the residue of my household and kitchen furniture, I give my son Peter and to my daughter Mary Weller and to her children to be appraised by three reputable neighbors, chosen by my Executors and to be divided equally between them, after my wife's decease. And lastly I nominate and appoint my son Peter and Andrew Shallenberger Executors of this my last Will and Testament. In Witness whereof I the said John Musser have hereunto set my hand and Seal this Ninth day of April Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and twenty five 1825. John (X) Musser.
Signed Sealed published and declared by the said Testator to be his last Will and Testament in the presence of us, who were requested to be his witnesses, the interlining made by request before signing. Thomas Lloyd, Peter Musser.
Lancaster County SS. On the 10th day of April Anno Domini 1826 Before me the Subscriber personally appeared Thomas Lloyd Esq and Peter Mosser the subscribing witnesses to the within will and on their solemn affirmations according to law did severally declare and say that they were present and saw John Musser the Testator therein named make his mark thereto and heard him publish pronounce and declare the same as and for his last Will and Testament and that at the time of the doing thereof he was of sound and well disposing mind memory and understanding, according to the best of their knowledge observation and belief. Philip Messenkop, Register.
Be it remembered that on the 10th day of April Anno Domini 1826 the last will and Testament of John Musser deceased was proved in due form of law, and Letters Testamentary thereon were granted to Peter Musser and Andrew Shallenberger the Executors therein named, they having been first duly affirmed, well and truly to administer the estate of the said deceased, and especially to exhibit a true and perfect Inventory thereof into the Register's Office at Lancaster within one month, and to render a just and true account of their Executorship on said estate in one year or when thereto lawfully required. Given under the Seal of said Office, Philip Messenkop, Regr. [Ref: LancasterCoPA Wills O-475]



Pedigree of John MUSSER
                                                                /-----Ulrich MOSER
                                                       /-----Galante MOSER
                                              /-----Peter MOSER
                                             |         \-----Dori HUNDSPERGER
                                     /-----Peter MOSER
                                    |         \-----Elsbeth LONGENEGGER
                            /-----Peter MOSER
                           |        |         /-----Christian TOMI
                           |         \-----Elsbeth TOMI
                           |                  \-----Elsbeth HOFER
                   /-----Peter MOSER
          /-----Peter MUSSER
 /-----John MUSSER
|         \-----(Unk) DIETZ
John MUSSER



Descendants of John MUSSER