WILL: John Farquharson; Rome, Oneida co., NY surname: Farquharson, Beach, Hamil, Hammill, Howland, Matteson, Merrill, Mesconton, Mill, Mills, Williams submitted by Fred Lewis (mrdata2 at pacbell.net) ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.org/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.org/ny/nyfiles.htm Submitted Date: October 2, 2005 This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/nyfiles/ File size: 8.1 Kb ************************************************ Source: Sampubco.com Oneida co NY Will Book Vol 9 page 164 Written: April 25, 1848 Recorded: October 2, 1849 Will of John Farquharson Rome, Oneida County, NY The last Will and Testimony of John FARQUHARSON of Rome in the County of Oneida (NY), I John Farquharson, being of sound and deposing mind and memory do make and declare that my Last Will and Testament, as followed, FIRST I direct that any just debts and funeral and testamentary expected be paid. SECOND I give and bequeath to my son William Hearnwill (sp?) Farquharson, in addition to an advancement of one thousand dollars, which he had already received the interest of one thousand dollars to be paid to him annually during his natural life and at his deceased the said sum of one thousand dollars to his heirs assigns. THIRD I give to my daughter Mary the wife of Cyrus MATTESON, in addition to the sum of two hundred dollars which she has already received the interest of fourteen hundred dollars to be paid to her annually during her life and at her decease the said sum of fourteen hundred dollars to her heirs & assigns. FOURTH To my son John FARQUHARSON, I give the sum of two thousand dollars. FIFTH To my daughter Sarah Ellen FARQUHARSON, I give the interest of seventeen hundred dollars which interest and principal sum shall be a trust fund in the hands of my Executrix and Executors hereinafter named so much thereof as may be necessary or proper to be intended in their discretion for the maintenance and education of my said daughter until she attains the age of twenty one years or until she shall be sooner married and afterwards the interest of the reminder of the principal sum of seventeen hundred dollars to be paid to her annually during her life and at her decease the said remainder to her heirs assigns. SIXTH To my daughter Jane HAMMILL Farquharson, I give the annual interest of two thousand dollars which interest and principal sum shall also be a trust fund in the hands of my Executrix and Executors, so much thereof as may be in their be or necessary or proper to be exp-ended for the maintenance and education of my said daughter until she shall attain the age of twenty one years or until she shall be sooner married and afterward the interest on the remainder of the principal sum of two thousand dollars to be paid to her annually during her life and at her decease the said remainder to her heirs assigns. SEVENTH As to the rest and residue of my estate I give to my beloved wife Sarah, to be in lieu of dower in my Real Estate. EIGHT For the purpose of making them to carry out the intention of this my will I do give to my Executrix and Executor hereinafter named full power to sell and convey any or all of the Real Estate of which I may be (have) and I do direct that the principal sum of which the annual interest I directed to be paid or expended for the benefit of my children respectively shall so far as practical, be kept invested on Security by mortgage on Real Estate. LAST I do appoint my wife Sarah and my brother James and Bloomfield S. BEACH of the village of Rome, Executrix and Executors of this my will and guardian of the persons and estate during their respected minors and of such of my children as may be of full age at the time of my decease. In witness whereof, I have thereto signed my hand and seal this twenty fifth day of April in the year one thousand Eight hundred and forty eight. John FARQUHARSON (SS). Sealed, subscribed and declared in the presence of each of us who at the request of the testator have hereby subscribed our hand as witness. Jane HAMILL of Rome (NY) L. MILL of Rome This codicil made to the preceding will by me John Farquharson, whereas that I do order and direct that the principal sum of the legacies, in my will above directed to be paid to my daughters Mary, Sarah Ellen, and Jane HAMMILL (sic) and their heirs assigns respectively shall be each one thousand dollars instead of the larger sum above directed and to my son John Farquharson, I give the sum of one thousand dollars instead of the sum specified in my forgoing will. Witness my hand and seal the 19th day of May 1849 John Farquharson (SS) Sealed, Subscribed and declared in the presence of each of us at the request of the testator have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses W. S. HOWLAND of Rome Henry MESCONTON of Rome State of New York, Oneida County, J. P. Othaniel S. WILLIAMS, Surrogate of the said county do hereby certify the foregoing to be the Record of the last will and testament of John Farquharson deceased and of the proofs and examinations taken therein. Othaniel S. Williams, Surrogate. At a Surrogate Court held at the Surrogates Office in Rome in the County of Oneida on the second day of October, A.D. 1849 before Othaniel S. Williams, Esq. Surrogate of the said County for the purposes of proving and recording the Last Will and Testament, and the codicil that of John Farquharson late of the town of Rome in the County of Oneida deceased in pursuance of Chapter Sixth, title third, Article two and second of the Revised Statue of the Stat of New York and of an Act entitled "An Act concerning the Proof of Wills Executors and Administrators Guardians and Wards and Surrogate Courts". May 16th 1837, and other Acts concerning the same, on the application of Bloomfield S. BEACH in said Will named Executor, James MERRILL being duly sworn and examined in open court testified that he was well acquainted with John Farquharson dec'd and had been for the last 20 years immediately preceding his death that he died in the month of August last at Rome in the County of Oneida which was his last place of residence at the time of his death; that he saw the said testator sign the paper where offered to be proved recorded and admitted to probate as the Last Will and Testament of the said deceased on the day, the same as date, the seal having been previously offered, that this deposeth signed the same at the same time as a subscribing witness in the presence of the testator and at his request and in the prescience of Lache (sp?) MILL who also at the same time signed the same as a subscribing witness in the presence of the testator and at his request and in the presence of the deposeth; that the said testator at the time he so signed the said Will then and there in the presence of this deposeth and in the other subscribing witnesses published and declared the same as and for his Last Will and Testament and he deposeth further that the said testator at the time he published and declared the same as aforesaid; and was of sound and deposing mind and memory of full age and not under restraint and capable of devising Real and Personal Estate. James MILLS. The foregoing proofs and examination taken before in the Surrogate aforesaid at the time and place as above mentioned and the depositions of the witnesses were by them respectively Subscribed after having been carefully read on to them and I, the said Surrogate being satisfied upon the said proof taken that the said will and codicil are genuine and valid and were duly executed that the said testator at the time of executing the same was in all respects competent to devise Real and Personal Estate and not under restraint do therefore declare the said will and codicil to be admitted to probate as a will of Real and personal Estate and a codicil thereto, and the said Will, Codicil Proofs and Examinations to be recorded. Witness Othanial S. Williams Surrogate aforementioned the day and year first aforesaid. (i.e., 2 October 1849). Othaniel S. Williams (SS), Surrogate