WILL OF JAMES FROST, DUTCHESS COUNTY, NEW YORK

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Will of James Frost:

I, James Frost, of the Town of Clinton, County of Dutchess and State of New York,
being this twenty-third day of  the third month one thousand eight hundred and
eighteen well in health of body and of perfect mind and memory, do make and ordain
this [recent] writing to contain my Last Will and Testament in manner following:
First, I will and order all my just debts with my funeral charges and my executors who
fully paid for their time and trouble and expense with all other incidental charges
out of my estate.  Second, then I give and bequeath unto all my brothers and sisters
that is living, that is to say, Rhoda Baker, Elisabeth Powell, Isaac Frost, [G]adiah
Frost, Jordan Frost, Solomon Frost, Mordecai Frost, George Frost and Mary Stringham,
the three quarters of my estate to be equally divided amongst them, and if any of my
brothers or sisters decease it is my will that their parents' legacy be equally
divided amongst all their children.  Third, then I give and bequeath the other quarter
unto my deceased sisters children, that is to say,  I give Anna Shadbolt […] Shadbolt
the one third, I give unto Ethelannah W[…] children the one third to be equally
divided among them after the decease of their father, and the other third I give it
unto Sarah Worden's children to be equally divided amongst them.  Lastly I appoint my
friends Joseph Albertson, Jothan Wilber and Daniel Baker to be my executors of this my
Last Will and Testamewnt giving unto them or either of them full power and authority
to execute, fulfill and perform this my Last Will and Testament in Witness hereunto I
have set my hand and seal the day and year above written.
 
Signed, sealed, published, pronounced declared by the said James Frost as and for his
last Will and Testament in the presence of  the subscribers who signed as witnesses in
the presence of the testator.  Witnesses present: Thomas Stringham, Charles F.
Stringham, Thomas C. Stringham    James Frost SS

Dutchess County, NY.  Be it remembered that on the sixteenth day of April in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine personally appeared before me
….

Probated 16 April 1829 by James Hooker, Surrogate