Will of William Brown; Seneca, Ontario Co., NY

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Copy of the Will of WILLIAM BROWN
admitted to probate May 25, 1854

I, WILLIAM BROWN of the Town of Seneca, County of Ontario and State of New
York do make publish and declare this my last will and testament as follows,
viz;

FIRST, I direct that the expenses of my last sickness and of my funeral shall
be paid in preference to any devise or bequest herein contained.

SECOND, I do give and bequest to my wife, JANE BROWN, the sum of fifteen
hundred dollars to be paid to her by my executor herein after named within one
year after my decease with interest. And I do also give and devise to my said
wife fifty-five acres in the Town of Seneca, Ontario County being the farm on
which I now reside being in the northeast corner of Lot Number Eighty in that
part of said town of Seneca known as Number Nine. And I so declare that the
bequest of the money and devise of the land in this second clause of my will
are made to and are to be received and accepted by my said wife in lieu of
Dower.

THIRD, I give and bequeath to my daughter, ELIZABETH BROWN REYNOLDS, wife of
Isaac Reynolds of the Town of Seneca, Ontario County, as her own property in
addition to two certain bonds and mortgages amounting to eleven hundred
dollars which I have heretofore assigned and given to her by my executor
within one year after my decease with interest.

FOURTH, I do herby direct my executor hereinafter named to cancel without
payment all notes I now or may hereinafter hold against my daughter, HANNAH
MARTIN, wife of Morgan Martin of Niagara County, or against the said MORGAN
MARTIN and I do also direct my said executor to satisfy and discharge without
payment a bond and mortgage for about six hundred dollars which I hold against
the farm in the Town of Clarence, Erie County, which was formerly owned by
said Morgan Martin.

FIFTH, I give and bequeath to my executor hereinafter named the sum of five
hundred dollars upon the following trust, viz; to invest the same upon bond
and mortgage to be taken in his name as a trustee, bearing interest annually
or semi-annually in his direction upon unencumbered real estate and pay the
interest or income of said sum of five hundred dollars to my said daughter,
HANNAH MARTIN, wife of Morgan Martin, for and during her natural life upon her
sole and separate order or receipt and upon her decease leaving her surviving
child or children or descendants of them, then I direct my said executor to
pay the said principal of five hundred dollars to the children of the said
HANNAH then living and to the descendants of such of then as shall have died,
share and share alike, that is, such descendants to take the share to which
their ancestor would have been entitled if living, but in case such HANNAH
shall die without leaving children or their descendants then the said executor
shall pay such sum of five hundred dollars to my said two residuary legatees
hereinafter named to take the same manner as they are entitled to take the
residue of my estate.

SIXTH, And in the case it shall happen that my said daughter, HANNAH, shall
have lawful issue, than I do give and bequeath to my said executor in trust
the further sum of eight hundred dollars to be invested in the same manner and
to be help upon the same trusts and the income and the principal to be paid
and disposed of in same manner and upon the happenings of the same
contingencies as mentioned and directed in the last preceding article of the
my will.

SEVENTH, I do give and bequeath unto my daughter, JANE FISH, wife of John Fish
of the Town of Seneca, Ontario County as her own property the two motes I now
hold against him, amounting to one thousand dollars.

 EIGHTH, I do give and bequeath to my executor hereinafter named the sum of
seven hundred dollars upon the following trusts, viz; to invest the same upon
bond and mortgage to be taken in has name as trustee bearing interest annually
or semi-annually at his discretion upon unencumbered real estate and pay the
interest or income of said sum of seven hundred dollars towards the education
and support of my grand-daughter, MARY S. A. SMITH, daughter of NATHANIEL AND
MARY S. A. SMITH until she shall attain the age of twenty-one years, and when
she shall attain that age to pay to her the said sum of seven hundred dollars
or assign to her the securities in which the same shall be invested. But in
case the said MARY S. A. SMITH shall die after my decease and before attaining
the age of twenty-one years, then I give and bequeath the said sum of seven
hundred dollars to my residuary legatees hereinafter named to be taken in the
same manner as they are to take the residue of my estate.

NINTH, I do give and bequeath to my son, WILLIAM BROWN, who is now among the
Mormons at or near Great Salt Lake in the territory of Utah, four hundred
dollars to be paid to him in one year after my decease with interest.

TENTH, I do give and devise to my son, JOHN BROWN, of Hartland in the County
of Hartland in the County of Niagara the seventy acres of land joining his on
the east which was conveyed to me by Martin Gage, and I do also give and
bequeath to said JOHN BRWN, one thousand dollars to be paid him by said
executor one year after my decease with interest.

ELEVENTH, I do give and bequeath to my son, FRANKLIN BROWN, of Royalton in the
County of Niagara his bond and mortgage executed to me about the fourth day of
January 1849 for eight hundred and fifty dollars, and I do herby direct my
executor hereinafter named to satisfy the same.

TWELFTH, I do hereby give, devise and bequeath all the rest and residue of my
estate both real and personal of every kind and description where-soever
situated as follows, viz; one half part therefore to my son, THOMAS BROWN, of
Hartland, Niagara County, his heirs and assigns forever, and the other half to
my son, ROBERT BROWN, of Erie County, his heirs and assigns forever.

LASTLY, I do herby make, constitute and appoint my son, THOMAS BROWN, the
executor of this, my last will and testament, hereby resolving all other wills
by me heretofore made and declaring this to be my sole and only last will and
testament.

IN WITNESS WHERE OF I have hereunto subscribed my name this TWENTY FIFTH DAY
OF FEBRAUARY IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND FIFTY ONE.

                                        William Brown (SEAL)