WILL: Jonas Hover; Taghkanic, Columbia co., NY
surname: Hover

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Transcribed from SAMPUBCO copy by Tim Masloski
Columbia Co NY Will Book Vol. L2 page 167

Record of the Last Will and Testament of Jonas Hover late of the town of
Taghkanic in the County of Columbia, deceased, relating to both real and
personal estate and of the proofs and examination relating thereto.
Recorded June 4th A.D. 1858.
State of New York  Ls.
Columbia County                     Be it remembered that heretoforth to wit
on the twenty fifth day of May A.D. 1858 William H. Hover one of the executors
named in the Last Will and Testament of Jonas Hover, late of the town of
Taghkanic, in said County of Columbia, deceased, appeared in open Court before
the Surrogate of the County of Columbia and made application to have the said
Last Will and Testament which relates to real and personal estate, proved; and
on such application the Surrogate did ascertain by satisfactory evidence, who
were the widow, heirs and next of kin of the said Testator and their
respective residences, and some of them appearing to be minors, and having no
General Guardian residing within the State of New York, a Special Guardian was
appointed in due form of law, to take care of their interests in the matter of
proving the said Will, by an order entered for that purpose by said Surrogate;
and said Surrogate did thereupon issue a citation in due form of law directed
to the said Widow, heirs and next of kin and Special Guardian by their
respective names, stating their respective places of residence - requiring
them to appear before said Surrogate, at his office in the City of Hudson in
said County, on the fourth day of June then next to attend the probate of said
Will; and afterwards, to wit, on the said fourth day of June satisfactory
evidence by affidavit was produced and presented to said Surrogate, of the
service of the said citation in the mode prescribed by law and on that day no
one appearing to oppose the probate of such Will, such proceedings were
thereupon had afterwards, that the Surrogate took the proof of said Will
hereinafter set forth upon this fourth day of June one thousand eight hundred
and fifth eight, and he adjudged the said will to be a valid Will of real and
personal estate, and the proof thereof to be sufficient, which said Last Will
and Testament, and proofs are as follows, that is to say ____

In the name of God Amen.  

I Jonas Hover of Taghkanic do make and declare this my last Will and
Testament, in manner and form following, first I resign my soul into the hands
of Almighty God hoping and believing in a remission of my sins by the merits
and mediation of Jesus Christ, and my body I commit to the earth to be buried
at the discretion of my executors hereafter named and my worldly estate I give
and divide as follows.  

First I will and bequeath to my son Lathan Hover my real estate lying and
being in the town of Tahgkanic and the place on which he now lives during his
natural life.  I also will and bequeath of my personal property to wife
Catherine one thousand dollars for her support during her natural life, and
after her death to be divided between my five living heirs William, Lathan,
Betsy, Lany, Castina, share and share alike, and the remainder of my personal
property I give and bequeath to my five living children share and share alike
by my executors paying to my grandchildren of my son Peter Hover twenty-five
dollars each when they become twenty one years of age and if one should die
then to pay the survivors this last mentioned sum to be paid four years after
my death by my executors to my five living children   I further appoint
William H. Hover and Lathan Hover my executors of my Last Will and testament. 
the written instrument consisting of half sheet was now and hereby subscribed
by me Jonas Hover the testator in the presence of each of us and was at the
same time declared by him to be his Last Will and Testament and we by his
request sign our names hereto as testifying witnesses.
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Jonas  X  Hover  [[Ls]]
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Abraham Myers residing in Taghkanic, County Columbia
Witness Elias Decker residing in Taghkanic County Columbia

Sealed and delivered in presence of the above witnesses this March 3rd 1858.

Columbia County Ls.

     Abraham Myers of the Town of Taghkanic in the said County being first
duly sworn deposes and says that he is a subscribing witness to the Instrument
now shown to him purporting to be the Last Will and testament of Jonas Hover,
deceased, and bearing date on the third day of March in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and fifty eight, that the deponent and Elias Decker
the other subscribing witness signed their names as witnesses to said
Instrument at the request and in the presence of the said Jonas Hover and in
the presence of each other, that the deponent say the said Jonas Hover execute
the said Instrument and heard him declare the same to be his last Will and
Testament at which time the said Jonas Hover was of sound and disposing mind
and memory, of full age, and not under any restraint according to the
deponents best knowledge and belief, that the said Jonas Hover is now dead,
and was at the time of his death an inhabitant of the Town of Taghkanic in the
County of Columbia.  Deponent further says that he wrote the said Instrument,
after it was executed by said Jonas Hover, to be kept by deponent and that it
has remained in his possession since the time of its execution until this day
when presented to the Surrogate for proof, and that said Instrument is now in
the same condition in all respects as when executed by the said Jonas Hover.
                                            Abraham Myers
Sworn before me this
4th day of June 1858
                        R. B. Monell
                        Surrogate

Columbia County Ls.
          Elias Decker, of the town of Taghkanic in the said County, being
first duly sworn, deposes and says that he is a subscribing witness to the
Instrument now shown to him purporting to be the Last Will and testament of
Jonas Hover, deceased, and bearing date on the third day of March in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty eight, that the deponent and
Abraham Myers the other subscribing witness signed their names as witnesses to
said Instrument at the request and in the presence of the said Jonas Hover and
in the presence of each other, that the deponent say the said Jonas Hover
execute the said Instrument and heard him declare the same to be his Last Will
and Testament at which time the said Jonas Hover was of sound and disposing
mind and memory, of full age, and not under any restraint according to the
deponents best knowledge and belief, that the said Jonas Hover is now dead,
and was at the time of his death an inhabitant of the Town of Taghkanic in the
County of Columbia. 
                                                Elias Decker
Sworn before me this
4th day of June 1858
                        R. B. Monell
                        Surrogate

County of Columbia Ls.
     Recorded the preceeding Last Will and Testament of Jonas Hover, deceased,
as a will of real and personal estate together with the proofs taken in the
Court of the Surrogate at the County of Columbia relating to the said Last
Will and Testament which record is hereby signed and certified by me hand and
to the provisions of the revised Statutes this fourth day of June one thousand
eight hundred and fifty eight.
                         R.B. Monell
                             Surrogate