Will, Vol. B, p 517 #765, Adams Co., PA
"In the name of God Amen I Peter Sanders of Hamilton-bon Township Adams County Penna being sick and weak in body, but of sound and disposing Mind & Memory - Do Make this my Last Will and Testament as follows -

1st I allow my executors hereinafter Mentioned to pay all my Just Debts, funeral expenses & the costs of Administering my Estate --

2nd I give & bequeath to my beloved wife Susanna one hourse creature her choice & saddle & bridle & two caves her choice a bed beding bedstead & clothing compeat and as much of my household & kitchen furniture as wll be sufficient for her comfortable accomadation and also I Give & Devise to my said wife Susanna the full use & enjoyment of apefefian of the house and piece of Ground containing about five acres situate in Cumberland Township Adams County adjoining lands of William McClellan & others for the term of her life, and ruther I give to my said wife the sum of one hundred dollars lawful money to be paid to her early Direry year During her natural life ---

3rd I give & bequeath to my son jacob the sum of two hundred dollars lawful money to be paid to him out of the firft payment arising from the sale of my Land on to his heirs ---

4th I give & bequeath to my son Henry & his heirs the Loom & tackling Compleat, on which he now Works ---

6th I give and bequeath to my son John one horse his Choice after his Mothers, also I give him one hundred dollars lawful money to be paid out the first payment coming from the Sales of my land ---

7th It is my will and I do order my Executors herein after mentioned or the survivors of them to make sale of all my estates boath Personal and Real (except what be herein before is bequeathed as soon after my decease as can be done with advantage either at publick or private Sale as my be most advantageous (except the house stands Devised to my wife which is not to be sold until after her decease and I do hereby Autherise & impower my Said Executors or the Survivor of them to Convey my real Estate to the Purchaser or purchasers & Make as good a title for the same as I in my lifetime could do - and it is my will that the hundred dollars to be paid to my wife during her life annually as aforsaid, shall be [a noticeable space here] my real Estate unto this may arise to take other Security for the same & release the land ---

8th and as to all the residue & remainder of my Estate, boath personal & the monies arising from the Sales of my real Estate, after this payment of my Debts, funeral Expensces & cost & aforesaid Legacies I Give Devise and bequeath the Same equally to my Eleven Children to wit Anthony Peter Jacob Michael John Henry George Adam Charles Mararet & Martha equally to be Divided among them & share and share alike their heirs & to be paid to them equally as the money comes to hand from the Sale of my Estate real or personal & the money arising from the sale of the house & land after the death of their Mother, also to be equally divided among all my Children as aforseaid---

Lastly I do hereby nominate and appoint my two Sons Anthony and Peter Sanders to be the Executors of this, my last Will and Testament giving them all necefary powers to carry the same into full Effect [illegible] declaring all other Wills by me hereafter made, nul, and void, and Declaring this and no other to be my last Will & Testament. In testamony where of I have set my hand and seal this 18th day of January AD One Thousand and eight hundred & seventeen signed & delivered in person of us.
Peter Sanders {seal}
David Plouts
Christian Hershey

Adams County Pa Before me James Duncan Esq. Register for the probate of Wills and granting Letters of Administration in and for the County of Adams in the State of Pennsylvania, Personally came David Plouts and Christian Hershey the two subscribing witnefses to the foregoing instrument o writing. And on their solemn affirmation as severally say that they wre personally present and saw and heard the therein named Peter Sanders sign his name unto and seal and publish the foregoing instrument of writing as and for his last Will & Testament, and at the time of doing thereof he the said Peter Sanders was of a sound and disposing mind memory and understanding to the best of their Knowledge and belief, and of the said testator and at his request and also in the presence of each other at the same time.

Affirmed and subscribed before me at Gettysburg the 27th day of March AD. 1817
David Plouts
Christian Hershey
James Duncan, Regr."
The following were sitting on the Probate Board for the administration of his Will (#1175, Adams Co., PA)—"Henry Saunders, Peter Andrews, Henry Wertz, Sam Showers"