WILL: John Dean; Wayayanda, Orange co., NY
surname: Dean

submitted by Dorothy E. Burr (deburr @ infoblvd.net)
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Transcribed from SAMPUBCO photocopy by Dorothy E Burr

Will of  John Dean, Wayayanda

old Albany/NewYork   File AD-75
Date:  20 Nov. 1766

In the name of God Amen.  This twentieth day of November in the year of our
Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty-six. I, John Dean, of Wayayanda in
the precincts of Goshen, County of Orange, Province of New York, being very
weak of body but of sound mind and memory, Thanks Be to God for the same, and
called to mind the mortality of my body and that it is appointed for all men
once to die, do make and ordain this my last will and testament in manner and
form following:

     Vis:  that it is to say principaly and first of all I give my soul into
the hands of God who gave it and my body I commit to the Earth to be buried in
a decent and Christian-like manor at the discretion of my Executors hereafter
named, nothing doubting but at the general resurrection I shall receive the
same again by the mighty power of God; and as touching such Earthly (?) Estate
wheresowith it has pleased the Lord to bless me withal,I give and dispose of
the same in the manner and form following:

     Vis:  This my will I do ordain that all my just debts dues and demands
which I owe in right or conscience to any person or persons be first paid and
cleared in a convenient time after my decease by my executors. 

 It is my will and I give and bequeath all my estate both real and personal to
my father William Dean and to my mother Catrine Dean and to my brother William
Dean and to my brother Joseph Dean and to my brother Nicholas Dean and to my
sister Mary Dean to each of them their heirs and assigns forever, to each one
of them an equal division of the same be it more or less except such a part of
my estate as shall be sufficient to indemnify my executors to clear the
_________? of the charge that my Negroes may be to it;  or what the law
requires in that respect it being my will that my Negroes should be free and
clear from all men only that they shall be under the care and instruction of
my executors, and if my Wench should desire to return to her native country it
is my will that my executors be at the expense of sending her home out of my
estate.  And it is my will that if my father or mother or brothers or sister
be dead and have left no heir then it is my will that that part be equally
divided among the survivors and it is my will that my Negoes namely (?)
George, Catto and Seicaly have each of them the sum of one hundred pounds New
York currency paid to them in a reasonable time after my decease by my
Executors hereafter named.

And it is my will that if none of my heirs ____? ____?  for my estate that my
Executors and their heirs and assigns should have it forever, and I hereby
appoint, constitute and ordain my well beloved friends Richard Dufall Esq.and
Samuel Dufall, to be my Executors of this my last will and testament and I do
hereby revoke, disavow, and make void all former wills, gifts, grants, and
bequeathments by me informally made, ratifying and confirming this and no
other to be my last will and testament in witness whereof I have set to my
hand and fixed my seal this day and year above written.

Signed, sealed, published and delivered by the said John Dean as his last will
and testament in presence of us.

David McCambly                          Signed:  John Dean
John McFall
John McCambly       

Approved for probate Dec. 2, 1766, by John Gale, Surrogate, Orange County