WILL: Peter Waggoner Jr.; Livingston, Columbia co., NY surname: Wagggoner, Barringer, Robison submitted by Tim Masloski (tsm @ goodhind.net) ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES(tm) NOTICE: All documents placed in the USGenWeb Archives remain the property of the contributors, who retain publication rights in accordance with US Copyright Laws and Regulations. In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, these documents may be used by anyone for their personal research. They may be used by non-commercial entities so long as all notices and submitter information is included. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit. Any other use, including copying files to other sites, requires permission from the contributors PRIOR to uploading to the other sites. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ny/nyfiles.htm *********************************************************************** Transcribed from SAMPUBCO copy by Tim Masloski Columbia Co NY Will Book Vol. E page 167 The Last Will and Testament of Peter Waggoner Jr. of the Town of Livingston County of Columbia and State of New York deceased, Registered October 3, 1826. In the name of God Amen. I Peter Waggoner Jr. of Livingston in Columbia County being in the perfect possession of my mental faculties do make and publish this my Last Will and Testament in manner following: First, I will that my just debts and funeral expenses be paid by my executors herein after mentioned out of my personal estate. also I give devise and bequeath to my only son Baltis Waggoner all that certain farm of land whereon I now live containing one hundred and seventy two acres be the same more or less To have + to hold the same to the said Baltis his heirs and assigns forever. Subject to the following conditions towit that the said Baltis his heirs and assigns shall and will allow to my wife Susannah during her life and to my daughter Elizabeth as long as she remains sole and unmarried the north room and upper room of my dwelling house, and will keep for my said wife upon the farm during her widowhood two good milk cows and six sheep which said cows and sheep I hereby give to my said wife the right of delecting from my flock and that the said Baltis shall also allow to my said wife and daughter during the widowhood of my wife a reasonable and sufficient quantity of good wheat and rye flour and of pork and beef and of all kinds of sauce and vegetables raised upon the farm for them to subsist upon in a comfortable manner and will also pay and allow to my wife yearly and ever year during her life twenty five dollars in money and fifteen pounds of good hitcheled flax also I give and bequeath to my said wife all her clothing and bedding and furniture as she now has it or may acquire it at the time of my decease. Also I give and bequeath to my daughter Elizabeth in addition to the bedding and property which she now has, two cows one heifer six sheep and one hog as amount fit equal to what my other daughters had upon their marriage. Also I give will and direct that my aforesaid son Baltis shall pay the following legacies hereinafter mentioned and which shall remain a charge upon the real estate herein before devised to him towit my daughter Elizabeth seven hundred dollars to be paid in four annual payments from and after my death without interest. To my daughter Rosina the wife of Charles Robison the sum of five hundred and eighteen dollars and fifty cents to be paid in four annual payments from and after my death without interest and also that my said son Baltis deliver unto my said daughter Rosina a certain note of hand which the said Charles Robison executed to me the 6th day of July 1805 [may be 1825] which is to _____al to my said daughter Elizabeth. Also I will and direct that my said son Baltis shall pay to my daughter Hannah the wife of John Barringer the sum of seven hundred dollars to be paid in fourteen yearly payments without interest and it is my will and I do direct that the said yearly payment of fifty dollars be made to my said daughter Hannah without any control of her said husband and that her receipt for the same as the instalments shall become due is to operate as a discharge to the said Baltis. and in case my said daughter Hannah shall die before the payment of the above instalments be paid to and for the use of such child or children as she may leave at her death without any interest of him the said John Barringer. Also I will and direct that my said son Baltis pay to Peter W. Waggoner grand child of my wife the sum of fifty dollars which shall be in full satisfaction for his work or labor that he may have done for meand which is to be paid in six weeks after my death or that my son Baltis may allow and give him one horse valued at fifty dollar in lieu of the money. Also I will and direct that my said son Baltis shall furnish my wife with the necessary firewood during her widowhood fit for use. Whereas my son Baltis and I loaned loaned to my son in law Charles Robison two hundred and fifty to pay Genl Henry Livingston of which the sum of two hundred and sixteen dollars and fifty cents belonged to me and the residue belonged to my son Baltis. Now it is my will that said son in law shall pay the said sum of money be owed me in one year after my death without interest as follows to my daughter Elizabeth fifty four dollars to my daughter Hannah fifty four dollars to my said son Baltis fifty four dollars and the residue to retain to himself. Also I will and direct that my said son Baltis shall pay and allow to my said three children Elizabeth Rosina and Hannah the one half in value of the pleasure waggon and harness in six weeks after my death. and lastly I do hereby give and bequeath to my said son Baltis all the rest residue and remainder of my estate both real and personal nd herein before disposed of and I do hereby appoint my said son Baltis and my son in law Charles Robison as executors of this my last will and Testament hereby revoking all former wills by me made. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this seventeenth day of January in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and twenty six. Signed sealed published and declared by | Testator as his last Will and Testament in our pres | Peter Waggoner [[LS]] ence who have witnessed the same in his presence | Killian Miller Jacob Best Margaret Ogden State of New York, Columbia County, Ls. Be it remembered that on the third day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty six Jacob H. Best personally came before me Abraham A Van Buren Surrogate of the County of Columbia aforesaid + being duly sworn did depose and say that he saw peter Waggoner Jr. execute the instrument (of which the preceding is a copy) as and for his last Will and Testament that at the time of the execution thereof he the said Peter Waggoner Jr. was of a sound and disposing mind and memory according to the best of the knowledge and belief of him the said deponent and that he the said deponent Killian Miller + Margaret Ogden severally subscribed their names to the said Will in the presence of the said Testator and each other. A A Van Buren Surrogate State of New York, Columbia County, Ls. Be it also remembered that on the third day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty six Baltis Waggoner one of the executors in the said will of the said Peter Waggoner Jr. named personally came before me Abraham A Van Buren Surrogate as aforesaid and was duly qualified to the due performance and execution of the said will of the said peter Waggoner Jr. by taking the oath in such case by law appointed. A A Van Buren Surrogate L.S. The People of the State of New York by grace of God free and Independent. To all whom these presents shall come or may concern send greeting. Know ye that at Hudson in the County of Columbia the day of the date hereof before Abraham A Van Buren Esquire Surrogate of our said County the last will and testament of Peter Waggoner Jr. 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 goods chattels and credits of the said deceased and any way concerning his will is granted unto Baltis Waggoner and Charles Robison 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 Surrogate to be hereunto affixed. Witness Abraham A Van Buren Esquire Surrogate of the said County at Hudson the third day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty six and of our Independence the fifty first. A A Van Buren Surrogate State of New York County of Columbia Ls. Be it also [remembered] that on the ninth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty six the above named Charles Robison personally appeared before me Abraham A Van Buren Surrogate of the said County and was duly qualified to the due performance and execution of the said will of the said Peter Waggoner Jr. by taking the oath in such case by law appointed. A A Van Buren Surrogate