WILL: Jacob Enders; Schoharie, Albany co., NY surname: Enders submitted by Gayle Hendren (GR3808 @ aol.com) *********************************************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ny/nyfiles.htm *********************************************************************** Transcribed from SAMPUBCO copy by Gayle Hendren Schoharie, Schoharie County, NY Will Book Volume 1B, page 226 * I have transcribed this will exactly as it was written. Including the actual punctuation & spelling, The Last Will of Jacob Enders recorded the 4 Febuary 1790 In the name of God Amen the Twentyeth day of December Anno Domini one Thousand Seven hundred and Eighty five I Jacob Enders of Schohary in the County of Albany yeoman Considering the frailty of my body the certainty of Death and the uncertain time and minute thereof but being of Sound memory and mind praised be almighty god do make this my last will and testament hereby revoking and Disanulling all former wills and Testaments by me heretofore at any time made Either in word or writing and Declaring this only to be my last will and Testament in manner following first I bequeath my Soul to god who gave it to me hoping for the pardon of all Sins past thro the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ my body to the Earth to be Decently enterred at the discretion of my Executors hereafter named there to rest in hopes of glorious Ressurection and my Temperall Estate in the manner following that is to say I will that all my Just Debts be paid out of my Said Estate Item I do give and bequeath unto my beloved wife Maria all and Singular my Estate real and personall during the time she shall remain my widow that is to say the Possession mean proffits and Rents thereof during the time aforesaid She making no waste th(?) Item I do give unto my Eldest Son Jacob Enders eight Shillings Currant money of the State of New York in Right of primogeniture----- Item I do give devise and bequeath all my Lands and real Estate situate lying and being in the County of Montgomery after my said wifes decease or remarriage unto my Son Jacob Enders to have and to hold the Said Land and real Estate with the right and Title so as it is Conveyed from adam Tielli to me unto my Said son Jacob Enders his heirs and assigns for ever on Condition my son Jacob Enders his heirs Executors or administrators Shall pay after my Said wifes decease or remarriage unto my Daughter Maria her heirs and assigns the Sum of one hundred pounds Currant Lawfull money of the State of New York in (can't read last word) Item I do give devise and bequeath all and Singular the remainder of my Lands and real Estate whatsoever after my Said wifes decease or remarriage unto my Sons Peter Enders and Johannes Enders to have and to hold the said remainder of my Lands and real Estate with all the right and Title thereof unto my said Sons Peter Enders and Johannes Enders their Respective heirs And assigns Each and Even and Equall Share and portion of the Same for Ever on Condition my said Sons Peter Enders and Johannes Enders their heirs Executors and administrators Shall pay after my said wifes decease or remarriage unto my Daughters Christina and Margrita their heirs and assigns the Sum of two hundred pounds Currant Lawfull money of the State of New York in (can't read word) that is to say my said Son Peter Enders his heirs Executors and administrators Shall pay unto my said daughter Christina her heirs or assigns the sum of one hundred pounds the one half thereof and my said son Johannis Enders his heirs Executors and administrators shall pay unto my said daughter Margrita her heirs and assigns the Sum of one hundred pounds the other half thereof Item I do give and bequath unto my Daughter Christina Maria and Margrita their heirs and assigns after my said wifes decease or Remarriage all my beds and beding and all other my household furniture all my horn Cattle all my Sheep and all my wifes apparell Each an Even Share and portion of the Same for Ever Item I do give and bequeath after my said wifes decease or Remarriage unto my Daughter Margrita her heirs and assigns one young mare. Item I do give and bequath all and Singular the remains of my Parsonall Estae whatsoever after my said wifes decease or Remarridge unto my Sons Peter Enders and Johannes Enders their Respective heirs and assigns each an Evan and Equal Share and portion of the Same for ever Lastly I do nominate Constitute and appoint my loving Sons Jacob Enders Peter Enders and Johannes Enders the Sole Executors of this my last will and Testament In Testimony whereof I have Signed Sealed published and declared this to be my Last will and Testament in the presence of the Witnesses Subscribing hereunto in my presence the word (her heirs and assigns) between the thirty first and second line on the other side interlined before Execution Signed Sealed published and declared By the testator to be his last will and Testament Jacob Enders L.S. in the presence of us who Sign As Witnesses hereunto in the Testators Presence . Peter Sidnich Jost Sitnich Peter Vroman County of Albany ss Be it remembered that on the fourth Day of February in the year of our Lord on thousand seven Hundred and ninety personally appeared before me Abraham G. Lansing Esq. Surrogate of the County aforesaid Peter Sidnich and Jost Sidnich of Schoharie in the said County Farmers who being duly sworn on their oaths declared that they respectively did see Jacob Enders late of Schoharie aforesaid deceased sign and Seal this Instrument in writing purporting to be the last Will and Testament of the said Jacob Enders and heard him publish and declare the same as and for his Last will and Testament that at the Time thereof he the said Jacob Enders was of sound mind memory and understanding to the best knowledge and belief of these deponents that their names subscribed to the said will are respectively of their own proper Hand writing and that they did see Peter Vrooman the other witness to the said will subscribe his name as a witness thereto in the presence of the Testator And also Jacob Enders Peter Enders and Johannis Enders the Executors of this said will named likewise appeared before me on the same Day above written and were respectively duly sworn to the faithful performance and Execution of this said Will by taking the usual oath as Executors Abm G. Lansing Surrogate of the County of Albany --- The People of the State of New York by the Grace Of God Free and Independent To all to whom these presents shall come or may Concern Send Greeting Know Ye that at the City of Albany in the County of Albany on the fourth day of this Instant February, before Abraham G. Lansing Esq. Surrogate of our said County, the last will and Testament of Jacob Enders deceased (a copy whereof is hereunto annexed) was proved and is now approved and allowed of by us. And the said deceased, having whilst he lived and at the Time of his death Goods Chattels or Credits within this State. By means whereof the proving and registering the said will and the granting administration of all and Singular the said Goods, Chattels and Credits of the said deceased and any way concerning his will is granted unto Jacob Enders Peter Enders and Johannis Enders the Executors in the said will named they being first duly sworn will and faithfully to administer the same and to make and exhibit a true and perfect Inventory of all and Singular the said Goods Chattels and Credits and also to render a Just and true Account thereof when thereunto required. In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of office of our said Surrogate to be hereunto affixed Witness Abraham G. Lansing Esquire Surrogate of the said County at the City of Albany the fifth Day of February in the year of our Lord one Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety and of our Independence the Fourteenth. Abm. G. Lansing Examined Abm. G. Lansing