Chemung Co. New York Wills.....Baldwin, Sarah May 28, 1860
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Chemung co NY Will Book vol. 5 page 391

                  LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF SARAH BALDWIN

Be it remember that  heretofore to wit: on the Fifth day of July in the year
of our  Lord one  thousand eight hundred  and sixty five,  Vine Baldwin, the
surviving husband of Sarah Baldwin late of the town of Baldwin in the county
of Chemung  deceased, appeared  in open Court,  before the Surrogate  of the
County  of  Chemung and  made  application to  have  the aid  Last Will  and
Testament, which  relates to  the real and  personal estate, proved:  and on
such application  the said Surrogate did  ascertain by satisfactory evidence
who were the husband, heirs at law and the next of kin of the said testator,
and their  respective residences,  and said Surrogate did  thereupon issue a
Citation in due  form of law, directed to the said heirs  at law and next of
kin by their respective names, stating their respective places of residence,
requiring them to appear before said Surrogate at the Courthouse in the city
of Elmira  in said County  on the 4th  day of September A.D.  1865 to attend
probate of said Will.

And afterwards, to wit:  on the 4th day of September A.D. 1865, satisfactory
evidence by  affidavit was produced  and presented to the  said Surrogate of
the  due service  of said  Citation in  the mode  prescribed by law  and the
matter having then been  adjourned to Sept. 25th 1865 at same hour and place
and on  that day, no one  appearing to oppose the  Probate of such Will such
proceedings were thereupon had  in said Court afterwards, that the Surrogate
took the  proofs of said Will  hereinafter set forth, upon  this 25th day of
September A.D.  1865, and he thereupon adjudged the said  Will to be a valid
Will of  Real and Personal Estate, and the  proofs thereof to be sufficient,
which said Last and  Testament , and proofs, are as follows, that is to say:

                                    WILL

In the name of  God, Amen. I Sarah Baldwin of the town and County of Chemung
and the  State of New  York of the age  of Seventy three years  and being of
sound mind  and memory  do make, publsih  and declare this my  last will and
testment in the manner  following, that is to say, First I give bequeath and
devise to  my daughter Martha E (M?) Baldwin all  the property both real and
personal of  which I may die seized together  with all the hereditaments and
appurtenances thereunto  belonging or in anyway  appertaining to have and to
hold to the said Martha E.(M?) Baldwin, her heirs and assigns forever.

Second, In  case my husband Vine  Baldwin, should outlive me,  then, in that
case  I bequeath  to him  a support  during his  lifetime from  the property
bequeathed  to my  daughter  Martha E(M?).  Baldwin aforesaid  and  for that
purpose  I  give him  the  right  to controll  the  real  estate during  his
lifetime. In  witness I have hereunto  set my hand and seal  his 28th day of
May 1860.

Sarah Baldwin (her seal)

Witness: Noble Miller

Chemung NY

G. W. Buck, Chemung NY

                              SURROGATE’S COURT

In the Matter of Proving the Last Will and Testament

Of

Sarah Baldwin,

Deceased

Chemung County, ss

Nobel Well of Chemung,  NY and G.W. Buck of the same place being duly sworn,
in open  Court, upon their  several corporeal oaths, each  for himself, doth
depose and  say, that  they are subscribing  witnesses to the  Last Will and
Testament  of Sarah Baldwin  late of the  town of  Baldwin in the  County of
Chemung and  the State of New York deceased.  And these deponents do further
say, that  the said Sarah Baldwin  deceased did, in the  presence of each of
these deponents, subscribe her name at the end of the instrument in writing,
which is now here shown to these deponents and which purports to be the Last
Will and  Testament of the said  deceased, and which bears  date on the 28th
day of May one thousand eight hundred and sixty. That the said deceased did,
at the time of  subscribing her name to the instrument as aforesaid, declare
the sam to be her Last Will and Testament; and these deponents did thereupon
subscribe  their own  respective  names at  the end  of said  instrument, as
attesting witnesses  to the  execution thereof, each  at the request  of the
said deceased and in her presence and i the presence of each other: That the
said deceased, at the  time of so subscribing her name to said instrument as
aforesaid,  and  publishing  said instrument  as  aforesaid  was upwards  of
twenty-one  years  of age,  and  a citizen  of  the United  State; that  she
appeared  to be  and deponents  believe she  was of  sound mind,  memory and
understanding and  not under any restraint,  and as deponents verily believe
in  all  respects  competent  to devise  real  estate:  that  each of  these
deponents say the other  sign his name to said instrument in the presence of
te said deceased. That  said deponents have now here carefully examined said
instrument and find that  is has in no respect been changed or altered since
its execution by deceased, and further say not.

Sworn and subscribed this 25th day of

September, 1865 before me. G.L. Smith Noble Miller

Chemung Co. Judge G. W. Buck