WILL: Margret Condon;  Annsville, Oneida co., NY 
surname: Condon, Moore, Mcguire

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Source: Sampubco
Written: January 1886
Recorded: February 18 1886

MARGRET CONDON WILL

Transcribed from Sampubco copy
NY, Oneida Co., Vol 38, pg 249

The Last will and Testiment of Margret Condon of the town of Annsville, County
of Oneida and State of New York. I Margret Condon aware of the uncertainty of
life do make ordain publish and declare this my last Will and Testament in the
manner and form following that is to say after the payment of my funeral
charges the expenses of administering my estate and my lawful debts, I give
devise and bequeath my property as follows: 1st I give to my sister Catherine
Moore all my real estate which I now own said estate situate in the Town of
Annsville Oneida Co. New York. Known as the Condon farm also all my personal
property except two hundred dollars which my brother William now holds, said
William Condon is to have and to hold said two hundred dollars during his
lifetime at his death the same to go to my said sister Catherine Moore and my
niece Eliza Shehan One hundred dollars each and in case of eather of their
deaths then to their two oldest children. 2nd My said sister Catherine Moore
is to pay my niece Eliza Shehan the sum of five hundred (500) dollars and my
sister Mary Mcguire the sum of five (5) dollars the same to be paid out of my
real estate and personal property and she the said Catherine Moore is to have
and to hold the remainder of said Estate and personal property forever and to
dispose of the same as she may deem proper. Likewise I make constitute and
appoint my said sister Catherine Moore of the town of Annsville Oneida Co. NY.
To be executrix of this my last will and testiment hereby revoking all former
wills by me made. In witness thereof I have herewith subscribed my name and
affixed my seal the 14th day of January in the year of our Lord 1886.

X (her mark)
Margret Condon L.S.

The above written instrument was subscribed by the said Margret Condon in our 
presence and acknowledged by her to each of us and she at the same time
disclosed the about instrument so subscribed to be her last will and testiment
and we at her request have signed our names as witnesses hereto in her
presence and in the presence of each other and written opposite our names our
respective places of residence.

James E. Secor East Florence N.Y.
David Simpkins East Florence N.Y.

State of New York  SS
County of Oneida
     I WB Bliss Surrogate of said county hereby certify the foregoing to be 
the record of the last Will & Testament of Margret Condon deceased and the
proofs and examinations taken therein.
WB Bliss, Surrogate
 
AT A SURROGATE'S COURT, held at the Surrogate's office, in Rome in the County
of Oneida, on the 18 day of Feby A.D., 1886 before WM. B. BLISS, Esq.,
Surrogate of the said County, for the purpose of proving and recording the
Last Will and Testament of Margret Condon late of the Town of Annsville in the
County of Oneida, deceased, in pursuance of chapter sixth, title first,
article first, part second, of the Revised Statutes of the State of New York,
and of an net entitled, "An Act Concerning the Proofs of Wills, Executors and
Administrators, Guardians and Wards, and Surrogate's Courts," passed May 16th,
1837, and other acts concerning the same on application of Catherine Moore
executrix in said Will named.

James E. Secor bring duly sworn and examined in open Court, testified that he
was acquainted with Margret Condon deceased, at date of will immediately
preceding her death, that she died in the month of January last past, at
Annsville, in the County of Oneida, which was her last place of residence at
the time of her death, that he saw the said Testatrix sign by making her mark
the paper here offered to be proved, recorded and admitted to probate as the
Last Will and Testament of the said deceased, on the day the same bears date,
[the seal having been previously affixed,] that this deponent signed the same
at the same time as a subscribing witness, in the presence of the Testatrix
and her request, and in the presence of David Simpkins who also at the time
signed the same as subscribing witness, in the presence of the Testatrix and
at her request, and in the presence of this deponent that the said Testator at
the time she so signed the said Will, then and there, in the presence of this
deponent and in the presence of the other subscribing witness, published and
declared the same as and for her Last Will and Testament; and this deponent
further says, that the said Testatrix at the time she so signed, published and
declared the same as aforesaid was of sound and disposing mind and memory, and
of full age, and not under restraint, and competent to devise real estate.
James E. Secor

David Simpkins, being duly sworn and examined in open Court, testified that he 
was well acquainted with Margret Condon deceased, at date of will immediately 
preceding her death, that she died in the month of January last past, at 
Annsville in the County of Oneida, which was her last place of residence at
the time of her death, that he saw the said Testator sign by making her mark
the paper here offered to be proved, recorded and admitted to probate as the
last Will and Testament of the said deceased, on the day the same bears date,
[the seal having been previously affixed,] that his deponent signed the same
at the same time as a subscribing witness, in the presence of the Testatrix
and at her request, in the presence of James E. Secor who also at the same
time signed the same as subscribing witness, in the presence of the Testatrix
and at her request, in the presence of this deponent that the said Testatrix
at the time she so signed the said Will, then and there, in the presence of
this deponent and in the presence of the other subscribing witness, published
and declared the same as and for her Last Will and Testament; and this
deponent further says, that the said Testatrix at the time she so signed,
published and declared the same as aforesaid, was of sound and disposing mind
and memory, and of full age, and not under retraint, and competent to devise
real estate.
David Simpkins

The foregoing proofs and examinations having been taken before me, the
Surrogate aforesaid, at the time and place above mentioned, and the
depositions of the respective witnesses having been by them respectively
subscribed, after having been carefully read over to them, I, the said
Surrogate, being satisfied upon the said proofs and examinations taken that
the said Will is genuine and valid, and was duly executed; and the said
Testatrix at the time of executing the same, was in all respects competent to
devise real estate, and not under restraint, do therefore allow the said Will
to be admitted to Probate, as a Will of real and personal estate, and the said
Will, proofs and examinations to be recorded, and I certify that the Probate
of said Will was not contested. Witness, Wm. B. Bliss, 
Surrogate as aforesaid, the 18 day of February 1886.
WB Bliss
Surrogate