WILL: Chandler Cobb; Arkwright, Chautauqua co., NY
surname: Cobb, Hutton

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Source: SAMPUBCO photocopy
Chautauqua County NY Will Book Vol. 9 page 355
Written: 19 Aug 1878
Probated: 3 Jun 1889

I, Chandler Cobb of Arkwright in the County of Chautauqua and State of New
York, aged 48 years and upwards considering the uncertainty of life and being
of sound mind and memory do hereby make, publish and declare this my last Will
and Testament, as follows.

     1.  My Executor hereinafter named is required to pay all my just debts
and funeral expenses out of my estate.

     2.  I give and devise to my wife Elizabeth the use of the north sixty
acres of my farm in Arkwright together with the use of all my farming tools,
implements and carriages of every kind with all my household goods and
furniture and teams with the appurtenances during her natural life to be
accepted by her and received by her in lieu of a year

     3.  I give and devise to my two children Flora Elvina Hutton and Willis
Chandler Cobb the use of twenty acres of the south part of my farm with the
appurtenances to be shared by them equally until two years after the decease
of my wife.

     4.  At and after the decease of my wife, I give and devise to my two
children named in the preceding third clause of this will and to their
respective heirs and assignees forever to be equally divided between them all
my real estate consisting of eighty acres of land being the same land
mentioned in the preceding portions of this Will, but none of this land shall
be divided or disposed until two years after the decease of my wife.

     5.  The remainder of my personal if any shall be disposed of according
to the laws of the State of New York in cases of intestacy.

     6.  I hereby nominate and appoint my wife Elizabeth to be the Executor
of this Will.

     In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 19th day
of August 1878.

Chandler Cobb, L. S.

     The foregoing instrument was at the date thereof subscribed by Chandler
Cobb, the Testator herein named in our presence and was at the same time
declared by him to be his last Will and Testament and at his request and in
his presence have subscribed our names hereto as witnesses.  The words :with
all my household goods and furniture and teams" interlined before signing.

Homer A. Curtis, Fredonia, N.Y.
E.F. Warren, Fredonia, N.Y.

     Recorded the foregoing last Will and Testament of Chandler Cobb deceased
and confirmed the same with the original Will this 3rd day of June 1889.