WILL: Paulina Law; Colchester, Delaware co., NY surname: Law, Holmes, Young submitted by Susan Gomez (hsgomez at sbcglobal.net) ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ny/nyfiles.htm Submitted Date: January 23, 2005 This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/nyfiles/ File size: 5.0 Kb ************************************************ Source: Delaware County Surrogate's Court Delaware co NY Will Book Vol. N page 27 Written: September 17 1888 Probated: 24 Nov 1890 The Will of Paulina Law Be it Remembered, That at a Surrogate's Court, held at the Surrogate's Office in Delhi in and for the County of Delaware, on the 1 day of Dec 1890, the last Will and Testament of Paulina Law late of the Town of Colchester in the County of Delaware, deceased, was duly proved, before Albert H. Sewell, Esq., Surrogate of said County, and was by said Surrogate adjudged valid, and established as a Will of real and personal Estate, and the same, together with the proofs and examinations taken on the probate thereof, are, pursuant to an order of the Surrogate here recorded, to wit: In the name of God. Amen. I Paulina Law of the age of seventy nine years being of sound mind and memory do hereby make publish and declare this my last Will and Testament in manner favoring viz First, I give and bequeath to my daughter Mary Adeline Holmes Eight hundred dollars ($800.) Secondly, I give and bequeath to my son William S. Law the sum of One thousand dollars ($1000.) Thirdly, I give and bequeath to my daughter Sarah Eliza Young the sum of Eight hundred dollars ($800.) Fourthly, I give and bequeath to the Baptist Society of Walton one hundred dollars $100 If any thing remains of my Estate after paying my debts funeral expenses, the settling up of any Estate __ I do hereby will that it shall be paid to my son Wm. S. Law & if there shall not be enough to pay the above amounts or legacies then each shall be paid in proportion to the amounts willed. I do hereby revoke all other wills by me made & Lastly, I hereby nominate and appoint Alston W. Hulbert Executor of this my last Will and Testament. In Witness Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 17th day of September 1888. Her Paulina X Law (LS) Mark The above instrument consisting of one half of legal paper was at the date thereof signed sealed published & declared by the said Paulina Law as her last Will and Testament in presence of us at her request and in her presence & in presence of each other have subscribed our names as witnesses thereunto. John E. Salton Hamden Del Co N.Y James H. Turnbul Hamden Del Co N.Y DELAWARE COUNTY, ss. John E. Salton of the Town of Hamden in said County of Delaware, and James H. Turnbull of the Town of Hamden in said County, being duly and severally sworn in open Court, do severally depose and say, that they were acquainted with Paulina Law late of the Town of Colchester in said County of Delaware, deceased, in her life time, and are the subscribing witnesses to her last Will and Testament. That the saud Paulina Law did in the presence of these deponents, subscribe her name at the end of the instrument which is now shown to them and which purports to be the last Will and Testament of the said Paulina Law and bears the date the 17 day of Sept 1888, and that the said Paulina Law did at the time of subscribing her name to said instrument as aforesaid, declare the same to be her last Will and Testament, in the presence and hearing of these deponents, who did thereupon at her request and in her presence and in the presence of each other, subscribt their names at the end of the said Will as attesting witnesses thereto. That at the time thereof the said Paulina Law was of sound mind and memory, of full age to make said Will, and not under any restraint. Sworn and subscribed this 24th day of} John E. Saltin November 1890, before me } James H. Turnbull ____________________ Surrogate I, Albert H. Sewell, Surrogate of the County of Delaware, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a correct copy of the whole of the probate of the last Will and Testament of Paulina Law deceased, together with the proofs and examinations taken on the probate thereof. Albert H. Sewell Surrogate. Additional Comments: Copy received from the Delaware County Surrogate's Court, April 2001 Paulina Holmes Law (Sept. 9, 1809, Greene Co., New York-Sept. 20, 1890, Colchester, Delaware Co., New York), widow of Samuel A. Law (Aug. 17, 1808, Greene Co., New York-May 3, 1888, Hamden, Delaware Co., New York)