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- Wendal Baumann died in April, 1735. Letters of Administration for his estate were granted by the Registrar of Wills to Benjamin Baumann, dated September 6, 1735; bond given in 300(pounds); his bail are Jacob Baumann Martin Bear. An inventory was filed of his real and personal estate. Administrator's account is found on file. A true and compared copy of original inventory, as the same is on file in the Registrar's Office (Lancaster County), viz:
"A Inventory made the 7th day of April, 1735, for the Plantation of Wendel Bauman, deceased, and of all other goods as followeth:
First the plantation with the land belonging to it
@ ......................... L200/0/0
To an olt Wagon .............ct L 6/0/0
To 3 Horses .............. ct L14,/16/0
To a Mear (Mare) ............ct L 4/5/0
To 3 Cows................... ct L 8/5/0
To 2 Steers................. ct L 5/7/0
To a Still...................ct L 6/13/0
To a Wasch Kettel........... ct L 3/0/0
To a Stellyard (Steelyard) ct L 1/6/0
To (?) a Sag Bock and a Sag (a Saw-horse, or
Sawing Jack, and a Saw)........ ct L 0/18/0
To all sorts of Piwder (Pewter).ct L 1/10/0
To Tiners (Tinners') Tools .....ct L 2/16/0
To severall sort of Woottes, Coppersmith Tools
(Wood's Coppersmith tools)
.. ct L 1/7/6
To 4 Hobs and 2 Shovels, 2 Grobinohss and 2 Axes
(4 Hoes and 2 Shovels, 2 Grubbing-hoes and
2 Axes), together .............. ct L 1/5/6
To a Ploue and Horse Cears (Plow and Horse
Gears (Gears meaning Harness)
..ct L 1/6/8
To Iroin Neif and a Hand Sake and an Olt Broad Ax
(Iron knife and a Handsaw and an Old Broad-ax).. ct L 0/9/4
To 3 Olt (?) Slges (?Sickles).... ct L 0/4/0
To Earthen Wear .............. ct L 0/9/8
To Beding ..................... ct L 7/8/0
To Linnen ................... ct L 2/3/6
To Clothing ................. ct L 3/17/4
To a Bibell................. . ct L 2/3/6
To severall sorts of Small Books .. ct L 2/3/6/
Whole Amount........................ L268/0/6
Theese man that vallueth these aboffe menshened goods (valued the above mentioned goods) was Uotrich Brackbiel and John Bouman.
Filed in the Registrar's Office, September 6, 1735".
(Note: In those non-prohibition days it appears, as the above list that a still was an item of necessity for the generation of that time).
None of the 3 Baumans connected with the settlement of the estate can be identified as sons of Wendel. His oldest known son, Christian (born August 13, 1724), was then only eleven years old. At a Mennonite conference of the entire Pennsylvania church, held in 1725, two of the five preachers present from Conestoga, as the Pequea settlement was then called, Martin Baer and Johannes Bauman, names that correspond respectively, with one of the bondsmen and one of the valuators of the estate. Ulrich Breckbiel, also is known to have been a preacher at that time.
Wendel was buried a little south of his old home in the Hans Tschantz graveyard, which is located south of Lampeter and about 8 miles southwest of the City of Lancaster, Pa. His grave has no tombstone. This dilapidated ancient burying ground, set aside by Preacher Tschantz from his farm releasing all personal claim thereto in 1740, was for the use of the neighbors. It lies between two Mennonite meeting houses called Willow Street (or Brick and Strasburg, where some of the descendants of the pioneers still worship. One of their ministers, Frank M. Herr, is a descendant of Hans Herr, the bishop of this settlement and after whom it is named. Some of the early settlers including Jacob Miller, Hans Mylin and the consort of Martin Mylin, are all interred here. The earliest grave with any record on its marker is L. G. 1741
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