Sale and purchase of the Mill of Wellesweiler It was an old notarized text, 1697. Translated by Henri Eisenbeis b:2.1.1.1.6-9.2.9.3.1-2 We, guardians of seals of the ottweiler's Abbey announce and declare the following:

To day comes and appears Peter Fröhlich, the ancient miller of Wellesweiler, that resides at this time Frankenthal. He made know and had professed with an irrevocable and sincere manner, with the Lord's graceful consent and permission he has given to sell at Sir Johann Henke, the ancient bursar to the court of Neunkirchen and has bought to Hans Siegfried EISENBEISS, to his servant wife Anna Margaretha and to all legitimate downward heirs, his mill that is situated to Wellesweiler and that had been bought before, according to the article ad lb by Andreas Thönges and was previously the good hereditary of the Domain. With the purchase there are also all areas of garden of acres and meadows, that have been visited and examined. They were described in a legend, that have been made specially on these areas and that had been given to buyers. On the other hand in this legend it was suited and asserted that buyers and their heirs had to hold the mill in a good state, included accessories they possess, take advantage of them and use them, as the salesman and his predecessors had had the right. They have annually to acquit from now a seigniorial emphyteusis. Each year they are obliged to deliver to the domain of the Count four casks of good clean quality and dried cereal.

In the case where the new proprietors would have the intention to sell, they will offer the right of pre-emption to the Domain. In addition they can profit of all possibilities of the property as they want but according to consents that salesmen have given for it. Thus it has been suited that fishing in the affluent that spreads the mill to the river is shared between the new buyers and the stately employee Jakob Scholmtzy, so that this affluent debit. Afier the death of this last the new proprietors will preserve alone the fishing rights. The graceful Lordship has left to buyers the small meadow closely a hermitage to according they put it in state to their expense, the Pond of the Deer, appointed Hirschweiler, and authorize an expert to examine works. The purchase will definitive when the sum of 420 Gulden, by bundle of 60 Kreuser or 30 Albus will have been poured and that two six months's pigs that have been given to the Abbey which will mean the receipt; Some more it will be necessary to pay the tithe of 42 Gulden to the graceful Lordship. Thus guardians of seals of the Abbey have printed the original of this letter and have put it to deposits of our graceful Count, high birth, the Lord Friedrich Ludwig Count to Nassau-Saarbrucken. That is made in Ottweiler, February 2, 1697.