Notes for Hans John Bushong

Notes for Hans John Bushong

!Information from web site:
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Valley/7259/bu.html

!Resource: "Thirty thousand names of Immigrants in Pennsylvania (1721-1776) by Rupp - pages 67-70"; SHIPS RECORDS BRITANICA 9/21/1731, MICHAEL FRANKLIN MASTER: Arrived in Philadelphia on 21 September 1731 aboard the ship Britannica. With him were his wife, Barbara b. 1694, and children Magdealena b. 1720, Hans Philip b. 1722, Ana Barbara b. 1725 and Christina b. 1728

!Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania Historical Society; Will of Hans John Bushlong:
I John Bushong making by my lifetime and good memory my last will and testament as follows:
First, it is my will that all my plantation where I now dwell on together with all the cattles and everything movable and all the winder grains upon my little plantation, I shall have my wife in her power as long as she remains a widow, but in case she my wife marry again then it shall be by acknowlege of the Magistreed allowed to her of necesaries that she is wanten for her lifetime and after her death and after the debts is paid, all my children shall have equally shares one as much as the other, but my altest son Philip shall have all of my plantation for the sum of three hundred and ninety pounds and shall none of his brothers and siters aske anythng of him in time of six years, but after the six years is past he shall pay yearly the sum of fifteen pounds till the said sum of three hundred and ninety pounds is paid.
Item, it is my will that my wife shall find the bread for my son Philip, for one year, together with as much grains as he is wanten to sow his plantation, and in case he marrys and should die in a years time after then his wife without any heirs of his body, his wife shall have of his estate the sum of seventy pounds, and it is my will that my son-in-law Philip Grim shall have allowance to live in my hous and eat of my bread in the time of two years.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand by these presents. dated June 5, 1748

H John Bushong, his mark

Witness: Frederick Hergerd
John Ekman, his mark
Andrew Bushong, his mark

Will was probated June 5, 1749. (Dr. Dorothy Boyd Rush - James Madison University - Harrisonburg,
Virginia) Last Will and Testament / From the Lancaster Co PA Register of Wills, in Will Book Y,
Volume 2, p20-21: