WILL: Aaron Haight; NinePartners, Dutchess co., NY

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Transcribed by Laura Balluff, February 2002

Dutchess County Will Book, Volume AA, pages 75-78

Aaron Haight was born in 1700 to Moses Haight and Elizabeth Shute(?). He died
in 1779. With his wife Meribah Deuel, he had at least three children: Lydia,
Meribah and Aaron, Jr. Aaron, Jr. served as a soldier in the Revolutionary
War.

**Please note that in a few places, the faded copy and old-fashioned
handwriting made it difficult to determine the exact text of these papers, but
I gave it my best guess. Spelling and grammar were transcribed exactly as they
appeared in the original document.
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I, Aaron Haight, of the Nine Partners Charlotte precinct in Dutchess County
and Province of New York, yeoman, being at this time in a good Degree of
health of body and of a sound disposing mind & memory & calling to mind the
mortality of my Body Do mak and ordain this to be my last will & Testament in
manner & form as followeth.

Imprimis 
That after my Dicease my Body Interred in a Decent Christian like manner at
the Discression of my Executors, here in after named and in some convenient
time after my Decease all my debts due unto me be called in by my Executors
and all my just debts paid and fully satisfied.

Item
I give & bequeath to my daughter Meribah who is now in a Discomposed condition
of mind and circumstances that is if she shall come to her right Reason the
northeast part of my farm whereon I now Dwell During her natural life and if
she should marry and have Lawful Issue thereafter her to her heirs and their
heirs and assigns forever being Bounded as followeth, beginning at the four
corners near where Joseph Walley now Dwells from thence northerly as the
Highway runs to John Tripp land from thence Easterly in said John Tripp Line
to Isaac Thorn land thence southerly in said Isaac Thorn line to the meeting
lot from thence as the meeting lot Runs to the Highway from thence westerly as
the highway runs to the first mentioned corner together with the Houses
profits & priviledges thereon & in any way appertaining, and as the House now
standing on the premises is not paid for, I order it to be paid for for my
said Daughter by my Executors out of my movable Estate, furthermore if it
shall so be that my Daughter Meribah shall remain in her present Discomposed
condition then my mind and will is that my Executors provide for her a
suitable convenient and necessary maintenance and support out of my Estate
during her natural life and that lands in this will given to her shall return
at her death to my son Aaron to him, his heirs & assigns forever with the
appurtenances thereof.

Item
I give unto Thomas May who has been heretofore my servant and since an honest
and faithful labourer in my business as followeth, the use and occupation of
the House & yard where he now liveth and to contain three acres of Land with a
priviledge to get fencing timber on my farm to keep in repair the fence round
the said three acres of land also the priviledge of cuting & providing for his
family fire wood on my farm and the use of a Team to Draw said wood to his
house also the priviledge to sow one acre of land with wheat and one acre of
land to plant with Indian corn yearly & every year to be where my or whoever
posseses the premises shall plant and sow as also an half acres of suitable
land ground to sow with if cases seed on my farm, also I give him one cow &
priviledge of cutting hay on my farm to keep a cow and pasture for one cow
yearly as all other priviledges during his natural life & not to be conveyed
by him to others.

Item
I give and bequeath unto my brother Joshua Haight son John twenty Pounds
current Lawful money of New York for the natural afection I have unto him to
be paid to him within one year after my decease also I order that my Executors
pay the remaining part of that Bond wherein I am bound with my brother Joshua
to the Estate of James Mott of Mamaraneck deceased with the Interest due
thereon.

Item
I give & bequeath unto my son Aaron Haight after funeral charges paid and all
debts and Legacies deducted as in this will heretofore devised, all the
remaining part of my Farm and lands wheresoever and all my movable Estate
(Except Six pounds New York currency which I order him to the mothly meeting
of Friends of the Nine Partners as a free gift from me and for the use of the
said meeting to him, his heirs and assigns forever. Furthermore I constitute
and appoint my aforesaid son Aaron Haight and my truly well beloved friends
John Macomber and Tripp Mosher all of the aforesaid Nine Partners to be the
sole Executors of this my last will and testament, making void & null all
other former wills and testaments heretofore made by me, Ratifying, allowing
and confirming this and no other to be my last will and Testament, In witness
whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this Twentieth Day of the seventh
month in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy nine.

Aaron Haight (SS)
Signed and sealed and published and declared to be the last will and Testament
of him the said Aaron Haight in the Presence of
Joseph Haight
Elizabeth Holmes
Moses Vail

Know all men by these presents that I Tripp Mosher nominated an Executor in by
and to the last will and Testament of Aaron Haight deceased bearing date the
twentieth day of July in the year 1779 do renounce & disclaim my right of
Executorship & administration to the said will. In witness whereof I have
hereunto set and seal this twenty first day of January anno Dei 1789.
Tripp Mosher (SS)
Signed & delivered in the presence of Gilbert Livingston, Surrogate